I am excited to announce a fully-funded PhD position in corporate sustainability and innovation management at the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, University of Graz. This position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research while pursuing a doctoral degree in the field of business model innovation for sustainability and circular economy.

Key details:

• Application Deadline: January 28th, 2025
• Start Date: March 1st, 2025 

For more information and to apply, please visit https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/c8d5bd71-13de-289d-8179-6690d18b9555 and/or contact me directly.

Submissions to the 10th New Business Models Conference are open until January 15th, 2025.
You can found the full call for submissions here.
This year again we are excited to offer a track on Measuring and Managing the Effets of Sustainable Business Models. 
We look forward to your contributions!

I will be happy to share first empirical insights on business air travel in Austrian companies in The House of Wisdom Coffee Conversations at University of Jyväsyklä on May 8, 2024.

This is an open event and can be accessed through the following website and provided link there: https://www.jyu.fi/en/events/transflight-business-air-travel-in-context-of-climate-change-empirical-findings-from-a-research-0

It was such a great pleasure to supervise Kathrin's master's thesis project on Business Air Travel: Drivers, Barriers and Future Development. Congratulations again Kathrin on being awarded with a scholarship by the Styrian chamber of commerce 2023!
For more details please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CysX6oRO46U (German only)

Eine Einordnung zu Kreislaufwirtschaftsbemühungen in der Elektronikbranche, konkret am Beispiel Apple, ist Inhalt dieses Artikels (derStandard, 29.5.2023). Meine Perspektive dazu: Geschäftsmodelle müssen neu und radikal anders gedacht werden. Inkrementelle Verbesserungen sind grundsätzlich ebenso begrüßenswert, generieren in Summe aus Nachhaltigkeitssicht aber zu wenig Impact.

Link zum Onlineartikel: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000035916/warum-smartphones-ein-probl

Flugreisen im Arbeitskontext – wie sieht die Zukunft aus? ✈

Im Forschungsprojekt #transflight an der Universität Graz beschäftigen wir uns genau mit diesem Thema.

Für unsere aktuelle #Umfrage sind wir auf der Suche nach Teilnehmenden, die ihre Perspektive mit uns teilen. Hierzu einfach auf den folgenden Link klicken und mitmachen! 📝
https://lnkd.in/dXazCTFh (deutsch)
https://lnkd.in/dpmu9vey (english)

Die Umfrage dauert 10-15 Minuten ⏰ und darf sehr gerne geteilt werden! 😎
Mehr zum TRANSFLIGHT Projekt: https://lnkd.in/dy_TNtaY

The Call for Papers for the upcoming 8th International Conference on New Business Models is available!

Find out more about the great variety of topics, and the possibilities to submit your abstract/paper!

https://www.newbusinessmodels.org/

I am very much looking forward to the upcoming methods in focus series on next Tuesday (Nov. 30, 2021, 13:00 CET).

In this online session we will discuss our paper on "Synergy or conflicts?" exploring the relationships among organisational culture, sustainability-related innovation performance, and economic innovation performance.

You can find more information and a link to sign up here: https://www.ispim-innovation.com/methods-in-focus

Thank you for inviting us!

#ISPIM International Society for Professional Innovation Management

The Call for Submissions for the 7th International Conference on New Business Models is available here.

Deadline for abstract submission: February 1, 2022

Organizations have an impact on sustainability – Do you have a paper (idea) with impact? Submit to our NBM Conference track “Exploring Organizational Impact” – Until 14^th February 2021!

Whether or not organizations employ truly sustainable business models depends on how they are designed and implemented as well as the environmental and social impacts they have.

Yet, while the impact organizations around the world have is tremendous, actionable knowledge about how to assess, manage, and design organizational impact is limited.

At this year’s (online) International Conference on New Business Models we invite you to our track on “Exploring Organizational Impact”.

We will shed light on (1) ways to assess and manage the sustainability performance of business models, and (2) how business model patterns serve as design tools for sustainable business models.

Track information and call for papers: https://www.newbusinessmodels.org/exploring-organizational-impact

 This track is related to a special issue in Journal of Cleaner Production: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production/call-for-papers/forecasting-the-sustainability-impact-of-new-ventures

The 5th International Conference on New Business Models took place in July this year as a full online conference - and it was a huge success!
We are very happy that this conference series is going to continue with the 6th International Conference on New Business Models taking place in Halmstad/Sweden from June 9-11, 2021!
Please see https://www.newbusinessmodels.org/ for further and always updated information!

The COVID-19 crisis has shown in manifold ways how vulnerable our economy and society are. Globalization, for instance, has resulted in a very few global supply chain hubs, which control most of the global movements of goods and materials. Relying only on such a few global supply chain hubs creates significant bottlenecks in the event of a global supply chain shock and risks substantial disruptions to the global value chain network with potentially catastrophic consequences for the world economy.

My colleagues Arijit Paul, PhD, and Prof. Rupert Baumgartner and I, we delineated some ideas of how Glocalization opposed to Globalization could offer potential future solutions to these existing challenges in a blog post published by ONE division/Academy of Management. This blog post can be accessed here: Link

Furthermore, you can listen to a 15 minute podcast episode in which Arijit and I explain the basic logic of Glocalization: "Hör-Saal: 15 Minuten Forschung #15: Was kann Glokalisierung"

Enjoy reading and listening!

It was great fun and a challenge to answer some questions related to Sustainability & Business only in a few words, called a wordrap. This was different from usual where researches tend to give looong answers, at least this is what rumors say... :)

Thanks Georg Nistl for the invitation!
You can find the wordrap (in German only) here: https://blog.next-incubator.com/sustainability-nachhaltigkeit/

The Journal of Business Models is developing a special issue on “Fostering Multi- and Interdisciplinary Business Model Research” and I'm very happy to act as a guest editor!

This special issue was motivated by this year’s 3^rd Business Model Conference and 4^th Int. Conference on New Business Models. The special issue editors are looking for innovative research methods, theories, and case studies to extend our knowledge about business models from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This is an open call for papers. The special issue is not limited to contributions from the two business model conferences.

See JoBM for further details (http://journalofbusinessmodels.com/calls) or contact me (info[a]romanarauter.com).

More information can be retrieved from: http://www.journalofbusinessmodels.com/media/1253/cfp-fostering-multi-and-interdisciplinary-business-model-research.pdf

The new deadline for paper submission is Nov. 30th, 2019.

Yours sincerely,
Romana

This annual International Conference on New Business Models grew out of seminars that took place at the Toulouse Business School (Toulouse) in France during 2013 and 2015. There the idea was born to organize an annual small-scale conference enabling discussions on the latest developments around business modeling and, more particularly, on how these models contribute to societal-economic trends such as sustainability, the circular economy, social entrepreneurship, and community-based business models.

Together with Jan Jonker, Nikolay Dentchev, Niels Faber and Florian Lüdeke-Freund I'm amongst the founding members of this conference series  and had the pleasure to act as conference chair for the 2nd International Conference on New Business Models that took place in Graz, Austria, in June 2016.

Link: https://new-business-models.uni-graz.at/en/

In 2019, the 4^th International Conference on New Business Models is hosted and supported by the Chair for Corporate Sustainability, ESCP Europe Berlin. It is devoted to bringing together both theoretical and practical insights from the fields of sustainable entrepreneurship, innovation, and transition, on the one hand side, and business models for sustainability, on the other hand side.

The Call for Abstracts and Papers (submission deadline: before February 1, 2019) can be found online and retrieved from: https://www.nbmconference.eu/

Looking forward to see you in Berlin in June 2019,

Romana