scholarly journals Combined analyses of costs, market value and eco-costs in circular business models: eco-efficient value creation in remanufacturing

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost G. Vogtlander ◽  
Arno E. Scheepens ◽  
Nancy M. P. Bocken ◽  
David Peck

Abstract Eco-efficient Value Creation is a method to analyse innovative product and service design together with circular business strategies. The method is based on combined analyses of the costs, market value (perceived customer value) and eco-costs. This provides a prevention-based single indicator for ‘external environmental costs’ in LCA. The remanufacturing of products is an environmental and sustainable approach, in the circular economy, and can deliver lower eco-costs of materials depletion and pollution. From a business point of view, however, remanufacturing seems to be viable in B2B niche markets only. In consumer markets, remanufacturing is less common. The question is how can remanufacturing become a viable business solution for mainstream consumer markets. Traditional ‘green’ marketing approaches are not enough: green has a positive, but also negative connotations, so marketing approaches are complex. By using the Eco-efficient Value Creation method, marketing strategies for the roll-out of remanufacturing in mainstream consumer markets, can be revealed. This approach has led to the development of five aspects, which are key to innovative circular business models, for remanufacturing: (1) buyers differ from the buyers of the ‘new product’ (2) quality must be emphasised in all communications (3) risk must be taken away from the buyer (4) top level service is required to convince the buyer (5) a ‘green’ brand may support the remanufactured product image.

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 529-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannu Saarijärvi ◽  
Christian Grönroos ◽  
Hannu Kuusela

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the implications of reverse use of customer data for service-based business models. In their quest for competitive advantage, firms traditionally use customer data as resources to redesign and develop new products and services or identify the most profitable customers. However, in the shift from a goods-dominant logic toward customer value creation, the potential of customer data for the benefit of the customer, not just the firm, is an emerging, underexplored area of research. Design/methodology/approach – Business model criteria and three service examples combine to uncover the implications of reverse use of customer data for service-based business models. Findings – Implications of reverse use of customer data for service-based business models are identified and explored. Through reverse use of customer data, a firm can provide customers with additional resources and support customers’ value-creating processes. Accordingly, the firm can move beyond traditional exchanges, take a broader role in supporting customers’ value creation and diversify the value created by the customer through resource integration. The attention shifts from internal to external customer data usage; customer data transform from the firm’s resource to the customer’s, which facilitates the firm’s shift from selling goods to supporting customers’ value creation. Originality/value – Reverse use of customer data represent a new emerging research phenomenon; their implications for service-based business models have not been explored.


Author(s):  
Burak Sarıçiçek ◽  
Erdoğan Taşkın

Marketing audit is a tool inciting the development and the evaluation of marketing efforts of an enterprise. In addition to this, marketing audit is also an effort to evaluate the potential, the resources and the goals of an enterprise against the effectiveness and efficiency of its marketing principles and strategies. In this research, the effectiveness levels of different enterprises will be investigated and measured with the help of the scoring system used in determining the effectiveness of the marketing management, the strategic orientation, the marketing management structure, the market and the marketing knowledge, the customer value creation capacity and the efficiency in implementation of marketing policies of an enterprise, using Philip Kotler's Strategic Auditing Approach. The effectiveness of marketing management will be analyzed and commented from the point of view of practicing marketing managers in the area.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2580-2584
Author(s):  
Karaoulanis Andreas

Business models are the blueprints upon which the whole structure and operation of the company is based. The aim of this paper is to underline the importance of business models in value creation for the company and to dig a bit deeper by revealing the synthesis of an abstract business model concept. The importance of customer value proposition via the customer value creation is very well underlined in order to pinpoint the author’s prevalent idea that focusing on customers’ needs should be the alpha and the omega for the eurythmic operation of every contemporary company.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Butler ◽  
Adam R. Szromek

This article discusses the need to expand the concept of the value proposition, in order that this business model component includes the value for a customer, the value captured by the enterprise, and the value for the community, as well as benefits for the natural environment. The objective of the article is to identify sustainable development components that have been proposed for tourist enterprises in the research literature. The article proposes actions to complement existing tourist enterprises business models in order to give them the characteristics of a sustainable business model and to implement practices of value creation for the community. The research notes that the value captured by an enterprise determines the level of implementation of its economic objectives resulting from the value creation for the customer and implementation of social objectives (including pro-ecologic ones). The revenues of an enterprise depend, first of all, on meeting the expectations of the customer, meaning that they depend on the value proposition for the customer, and their volume will allow researchers to determine the possibility of creating value for the community. The expected tendency to create value for the community is argued to be proportional to the effectiveness of customer value influence, less the value captured by the enterprise. After an initial review of relevant literature, attention is focused on health tourism enterprises and how these principals can be applied in that context.


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhartha SenGupta

In spite of rapid strides in evolving Architecture processes that can help Enterprises leverage IT for creating Value, shortcomings are widely perceived. In this paper, the author discusses four points. Part I covers structuring the enterprise, business value and its measurement and maximizing returns from IT assets. This part examines architecting for value, IT enabled. It is suggested that, since the impacts are generally inseparable, IT changes should be planned within a holistic framework considering all other business considerations, merging all enterprise capabilities and all approaches from different disciplines to creating Value. Further, this Architecture should be aligned with the Architecture of the business, i.e., with business models, rather than with business strategies. A subsequent paper will study the application through a case study and share recommendations for IT services vendors.


2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Dean ◽  
Ghada Talat Alhothali

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elucidate service-for-service benefits emerging from co-creation in everyday banking. It does so by identifying factors that constitute the joint provider/customer co-creation platform, distinguishing them from factors that facilitate customers’ independent value creation; and exploring benefits and potential opportunities for each party. Design/methodology/approach Insights were gained by using a qualitative approach involving 33 face-to-face interviews with bank managers (15) and their customers (18) in Saudi Arabia. Content analysis was performed on the data and the two sets of views integrated to compare the reality of service-for-service with theoretical assumptions. Findings The analysis identified 65 topics, clustered to 12 themes. Three themes represented joint, collaborative activity (problem solving, relationship building, and knowledge and learning) whilst other themes identified facilitation actions by banks. Key opportunities to increase mutual value (service-for-service) emerge from extending interaction via the co-creation platform but additional benefits from these opportunities are not currently realized by participants. The authors thereby note the potential of a service focus but suggest that the locus of value creation will not readily shift from the provider to a collaborative process of co-creation. Research limitations/implications The qualitative nature of the study limits generalizability. However, the authors expect that the hierarchy of service-for-service will be meaningful in other contexts. Future research may use it as a starting point for identifying innovations from co-creation, how actors realize and measure service-for-service, and how different business models may strengthen value opportunities. Practical implications The findings provide managers with first, three areas of emphasis to gain and extend mutual service-for-service from direct interactions in everyday banking transactions. Second, the study emphasizes resource characteristics that will facilitate value enhancement for firms and customers by recognition of barriers to collaborative actions, and approaches for pursuit of service-for-service. Originality/value This study establishes the joint and essential firm/customer co-creation platform in retail banking and distinguishes the platform from other customer value-facilitation actions. The authors integrate the findings with previous literature and present a conceptual framework for levels of service-for-service in exchange. This framework shows a hierarchy of key benefits for providers and customers, and highlights increasing complexities that hinder the reality of achieving service-for-service opportunities arising from the joint co-creation platform.


2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 97-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
MYUNG-HWAN RIM ◽  
HYUN-SOO HAN ◽  
YEONG-WHA SAWNG

In this paper, we explore the merging of supply chains between media and telecommunications as an example of business application of industry convergence. The goal of this study is to provide managerial insight into the various facets of convergence of supply chains so that companies can effectively exploit business opportunities presented by the accelerating process of digital convergence and related technological innovations. In this study, the focus is set on business models, rather than business strategies as such, since digital convergence is an emerging sector that deserves independent attention as a new business concept. We formulated a series of propositions, related to customer value, value network, and supply chain efficiency, using frameworks borrowed from the existing business model literature and value creation theories for Internet business. Managerial implications are discussed and applied to DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), a new telecom-broadcasting convergence business model, recently introduced in South Korea.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3932
Author(s):  
Iveta Šimberová ◽  
Peter Kita

The paper’s objective is to describe business models currently used in terms of sustainable multiple customer creation in the chemical industry in the Czech Republic, namely Section 20.1 in the CZ NACE (Classification of Economic Activities). The business models are described through a specified set of business model elements, which correspond with the presented theoretical bodies. The business models are also evaluated and benchmarked based on a custom indicator measuring business model novelty. The theoretical background of the research consists of three theoretical bodies: Sustainability, multiple customer value creation, and new business models. The research stems from the theoretical background and anticipates that the business model development dynamics drives companies to consider the reasons and conditions of their very existence. The Canvas business model serves as a visualization tool, as it is sufficiently comprehensive, analytical, flexible, and general. For this reason, it is appropriate for the research of new business models aimed at multiple value creation in any industry. Owing to the frequency of occurrence of elements in the fields of the canvas business model, it is possible to develop the majority and minority business model design representing the basis of the research.


Author(s):  
Svetlana Khalatur ◽  
Irina Plisko

Subject of research – conceptual, theoretical-methodological and scientific-practical principles of profit management at enterprises. Aim of research is to investigate and describe the mechanism, factors, reserves and ways to increase the profitability of enterprises of the national economy of Ukraine in the conditions of financial globalization. Methods of research.  The article uses a set of methods of scientific research: statistical, historical, normative, analytical. From the methodological point of view, we note that this analysis refers to the period 2010-2017 years. Results of research. Having studied the ways to increase the profitability of enterprises in the market conditions, we can conclude that due to the lack of an effective business model for increasing the company's profitability in most of the enterprises of the national economy of Ukraine, there is a risk of shortfall in profits or even losses. It is argued that enterprises need to form an optimal business model for increasing profitability before performing financial and corporate activities in order to achieve the desired results. The problem is that many businesses use the concept of a business model and business strategy as interchangeable, which is not correct. Application of results.  The results of this study can be applied in the practice of financial and economic activity of enterprises of the national economy of Ukraine. Conclusions. In order for the company to grow and profit, it is very important that it has a reliable business model as well as a competitive strategy on how to differ from competitors. It is important to combine business model analysis with strategic analysis when an enterprise develops and implements a new business model to protect the results of a transformed business model from the point of view of competitive advantage. This link involves segmentation of the market, creating value propositions for each segment, and developing a variety of "isolation mechanisms" that will help avoid simulating business models / business strategies by competitors. In order to create and maintain a competitive advantage, and thus increase the profitability of the enterprise, differentiated and difficult to immitate, at the same time effective design for the business model of the enterprise is very important.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risca Fitri Ayuni

Introduction: Generation Z (Gen Z) refers to the most application-friendly and website-savvy generation engaging with the Internet for most of its daily activities. The number of Gen Z members has been growing and is projected to become the largest market segment by 2020. In the future, Gen Z will affect business strategies; compounded by the presence of a fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0), which will encourage companies to change their business models. One of the changes is a new paradigm shift by companies from the traditional business model to an internet-based business model (e-business model/e-commerce), such as online shops. Online shops have escalated at a rapid pace and have changed people’s buying habits, especially for Gen Z. Gen Z seems to be shopping online more than ever. Targeting them is the best strategy to enhance their lifetime loyalty. Background Problem: This study aims to examine the relationship of e-service quality, online customer value, e-satisfaction and e-loyalty. Research Method: Two hundred and forty-one Gen Z respondents were involved in this study. PLS 3, Sobel and SPSS 23 were employed to analyze the data. Five hypotheses were proposed. Findings: The findings indicated that e-service quality became the expected predictor of online customer value and satisfaction. In addition, the results confirm the mediating role of online customer value between e-service quality and e-satisfaction, as well as clarifying the relationship of online customer value and e-satisfaction. Finally, the effect of e-satisfaction on e-loyalty has been proven in this study. Conclusion: Upon figuring out the relevant issue, online shops are able to re-consider their business models to adopt the Industry 4.0 revolution, to strengthen their capacity in tight competition. In order to target Gen Z, who mostly do their purchasing via the Internet, online shops must provide high quality websites and create values which convey economic, social and functional values. These two key factors play significant roles in attaining Gen Z’s e-satisfaction, thus securing Gen Z’s e-loyalty. 


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