Nudging to Sustainability: Corporate Business Models

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What does the topic mean?

The basic idea of sustainable business models is to create added value on an economic, social and ecological level. Like a green thread, the ecological idea weaves through all processes of the company – starting with the vision and the strategy and extending to the everyday work of all employees.

Goal of the nudge

Companies are only fit for the future if they begin to assume social responsibility and integrate sustainability into their business model. With our Nudge, we want to support companies in this transformation process and focus on the drivers of change – the employees.

    Needs analysis

    • Transformation process
      A decisive and clear start is necessary for the transformation process to succeed.
    • The role of employees
      The role of employees is considered a key factor for a successful change process.
    • Mindset
      A sustainable business model places new demands on employees – a high capacity for innovation, a great deal of responsibility and a high degree of creative freedom. The commitment of employees must be increased in order to meet these requirements.

    Cause analysis

    • Status-quo-bias

      Employees disproportionately often cling to old company structures and processes.

    • Loss aversion

      The losses caused by the change process are felt much more strongly than any resulting gains.

    • Misaligned individual incentives

      Own needs (need for harmony, need for security, convenience) are prioritized higher than the overall interest of the company.

    • Attitude-Behaviour-Gap

      The employees’ own emotional integration into the change process is missing. The future benefits of the change are too abstract.

Target Group

Our Nudge ties in with companies that want to successfully integrate sustainability into their business model. It is important that a sustainable corporate vision already exists and has been clearly communicated by the management level. Since all beginnings are difficult, our Nudge starts in the initial phase of the transformation process and focuses on the employees.

Added value of the nudge

  • Create awareness

    Employees recognize that their own actions have an impact on the company’s carbon footprint.

  • Increasing commitment

    Personal integration of employees in the change process.

  • Save CO2

    The company’s carbon footprint is reduced.

How you can contact us:

  • Christabel Welzel

    christabel.welzel@stud.hshl.de

  • Julia Dankbar

    julia.dankbar@stud.hshl.de