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The Green Business and Sustainable Development School—A Case Study for an Innovative Educational Concept to Prevent Big Ideas from Failure

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  • Jan Nicolai Hennemann

    (Department of Communication, University of Zilina, Sweco GmbH, Graeffstr. 5, 50823 Cologne, Germany)

  • Bernd Draser

    (Ecosign, Akademie für Gestaltung, Vogelsangerstr. 250, 50825 Cologne, Germany)

  • Katarina Repkova Stofkova

    (Department of Communication, University of Zilina, Univerzitná 1, 01026 Žilina, Slovakia)

Abstract

This article addresses the question of why initiatives in the field of green business and sustainable development often fail. Therefore, it dismantles some typical patterns of failure and shows—as a case study—how these patterns can be challenged through an innovative educational concept: the green business and sustainable development school. The applied methodology is a real-life project that is designed through methodological elements stemming from business model canvas, theory U, stakeholder participation, and design thinking. The results of the school initiative are discussed and evaluated by four distinctive stakeholder groups and the school’s supporting potential to overcome typical patterns of failure in the green business and sustainable development arena by the younger generation in the future is outlined. This article concludes with ideas to enhance the school concept to reach even more stakeholder-groups and increase its reliability and viability.

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  • Jan Nicolai Hennemann & Bernd Draser & Katarina Repkova Stofkova, 2021. "The Green Business and Sustainable Development School—A Case Study for an Innovative Educational Concept to Prevent Big Ideas from Failure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-15, February.
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