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Eager to Develop Sustainable Business Ideas? Assessment through a New Business Plan (BP4S Model)

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  • Paulo Lopes Henriques

    (Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Pedro Verga Matos

    (Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Helena Mateus Jerónimo

    (Advance/CSG, ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-781 Lisbon, Portugal)

Abstract

This article presents the BP4S (Business Plan for Sustainability), which builds on the literature about business models, as an innovation that considers sustainability as a characteristic of a business. Sustainability becomes the objective of business instead of being an attribute of business. This article also proposes the Global Sustainability Project Index (GSPI) as a metric to measure the effect of a business venture on sustainability to help with the decision-making on the viability of a project in supporting the pillars of sustainability. Additionally, a collection of indicators for the 3Ps of sustainability (planet, people, and profit) is also an asset of this article.

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  • Paulo Lopes Henriques & Pedro Verga Matos & Helena Mateus Jerónimo, 2022. "Eager to Develop Sustainable Business Ideas? Assessment through a New Business Plan (BP4S Model)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-15, January.
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    1. Donald F. Kuratko & David B. Audretsch, 2009. "Strategic Entrepreneurship: Exploring Different Perspectives of an Emerging Concept," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 33(1), pages 1-17, January.
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