Organizing for Sustainability

Jan Jonker is a specialist in the field of sustainability and circularity. He is employed as a professor at the Nijmegen School of Management (NSM) at Radboud University Nijmegen (RU – Holland) where he holds the chair of ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship’. From 2014–2016 he also held the Chaire d’ Excellence Pierre de Fermat position at the Toulouse Business School (TBS) in Toulouse (France). From 2017–2018 he was also the chairholder of the Emile Francqui Chair at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium. Professor Jonker’s research interests are at the crossroads of management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD); specifically, the development of strategies for sustainability and related (new) business models. Niels Faber is assistant professor of Circular Entrepreneurship at the Campus Fryslân Faculty of the University of Groningen in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands) and lecturer-researcher at the International Business School and Knowledge Centre Bio-based Economy of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (the Netherlands).His research focuses on the organisational aspects of, and business models for, sustainability and the circular economy.

• Chapter 1: Speaking of transitions.- Chapter 2: Business Modelling.- Part 1: Definition Stage.- Chapter 3: Motive and context.- Chapter 4: The dream.- Chapter 5: The value proposition.- Part 2: Design Stage.- Chapter 6: Business model archetypes.- Chapter 7: Parties involved.- Chapter 8: Strategy.- Chapter 9: Core activities.- Chapter 10: External test.- Part 3: Result stage.- Chapter 11: Impact.- Chapter 12: Value(s) Creation.- Chapter 13: Alternative routes.- Chapter 14: The art of doing.- Chapter 15: Epilogue.