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Linking sustainable business models to socio-ecological resilience through cross-sector partnerships: A complex adaptive systems view

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Title Linking sustainable business models to socio-ecological resilience through cross-sector partnerships: A complex adaptive systems view
 
Creator Dentoni, Domenico
Pinkse, Jonatan
Lubberink, Rob
 
Subject sustainability
enterprises
resilience
partnerships
systems
food security
agriculture
climate change
 
Description A flourishing literature assesses how sustainable business models create and capture value in socio-ecological systems. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about how the organization of sustainable business models—of which cross-sector partnerships represent a core and distinctive mechanism—can support socio-ecological resilience. We address this knowledge gap by taking a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective. We develop a framework that identifies the key strategic, institutional, and learning elements of partnerships that sustainable business models rely on to support socio-ecological resilience. With our analytical framework, we underpin the importance of assessing sustainable business initiatives in terms of their impact on resilience at the level of socio-ecological systems, not just of organizations. Therefore, we reveal how cross-sector partnerships provide the organizational support for sustainable business models to support socio-ecological resilience. By combining the key features of CAS and the key elements of partnerships, we provide insight into the formidable task of designing cross-sector partnerships so that they support socio-ecological resilience and avoid unintended consequences.
 
Date 2021-05
2020-08-12T15:09:19Z
2020-08-12T15:09:19Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Dentoni D, Pinkse J, Lubberink R. 2020. Linking sustainable business models to socio-ecological resilience through cross-sector partnerships: A complex adaptive systems view. Specila Issue. Business & Society 1-37.
0007-6503
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109006
https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320935015
PII-EA_GCP4OSMARE
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 1216-1252
 
Publisher SAGE Publications
 
Source Biomass and Bioenergy