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"Green Multi Business Models” How to Measure Green Business Models and Green Business Model Innovation?

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Ever since the branching of the sustainable and circular literature on business models of the late 2000s and early 2010´s, academia´s, businesses and societies have been experimenting with how to measure green business models. Green Business Model design—creating, capturing, delivering, receiving and consuming TO BE Business Models, Business Model Reconfiguration—focusing on changing AS IS Business Models into becoming or being green and Green Business Model Development—focusing on the tactical parameters of Green Business Models are 3 very different areas of measuring green related to business models and business model innovation. Several tools and actions can in these cases be taken into consideration, when measuring Green Business Models and Green Business Model Innovation. However, it seems as if there is a gap in literature and practice on how to really measure these Green BM Parameters. More specifically—How to measure green related to business models and How to measure green related to business model innovation. None seems yet to be able to measure green business models in real time and none seems to offer green business model measurement on all Green Business Model Parameters in symbiosis with monetary business model parameters. One of the reasons is that there is no clear definitions of green business model parameters although numerous green certificates exist, and several consultancies capitalise heavily on the billion dollar green business model certificate ecosystem for measuring and validating transformation of “AS IS” and “TO BE” business model ecosystems, businesses and their related business models into green. Most definitions and certificates also seem to be pure static and adapted as copies of former iso measurement standards. Very few offer and use advanced technologies to measure the green business model parameters in real-time. Further there is a lack of advanced measurement technologies that are able to measure on all green business model parameters within internet time together with monetary business model parameters. The paper presents some preliminary work on green business model measuring based on data from 240 SME businesses and reports on some preliminary work on a Green Business Model Dashboard in the EU Interreg, Kask GREENBIZZ project aimed at measuring—How green a business and its related business models really are?—and in real time.

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    Peter Lindgren, Niklas Stoyan Hornbæk Knoth, Sukanthan Sureshkumar, Mathilde Fogh Friedrich & Rita Adomaityte

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Lindgren, P., Knoth, N.S.H., Sureshkumar, S. et al. "Green Multi Business Models” How to Measure Green Business Models and Green Business Model Innovation?. Wireless Pers Commun 121, 1303–1323 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-09189-2

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