130 – Business model innovation for sustainability

Many businesses worldwide are facing big sustainability challenges. In Andrey Abadzhiev’s research in business administration, he investigates how businesses can innovate their models to be more sustainable. While past research has recognized that companies need different management methods to make these changes, it hasn’t always provided a clear or structured approach.

To help with this, Andrey has developed a typology that organizes the current knowledge on sustainable business model innovation (BMIfS). This framework identifies three key areas of management: values, knowledge, and agency. In his research, Andrey has conducted four case studies in Sweden’s wood construction industry, to show how the typology can be applied in real-world situations. In our conversation, Andrey explains the typology in more detail, and we learn more about how the results of his research can be of use to businesses that need and want to transition to sustainable business models.

Andrey Abadzhiev’s doctoral thesis can be downloaded from DiVA: Managing business model innovation for sustainability transitions: Towards a theory-based typology

129 Protecting Patient Privacy in the Digital Health Era: Uncovering Risks and Ways Forward

In this episode of Forskningspodden, we explore the hidden privacy risks for users of digital health technologies—like mobile health apps and health information systems—that are transforming healthcare. While these tools offer huge benefits, they also open the door to serious privacy and security risks that could result in sensitive information misuse, unauthorized access to data breaches

In this episode, our guest, Phd Samuel Wairimu, breaks down the privacy challenges posed by applications like the COVID-19 contact tracing apps, the impact of cyberwar on patient privacy, and how privacy risks can be better assessed. Samuel’s research highlights real-world privacy harms and offers new ways for healthcare professionals to protect patient data. If you care about the future of digital healthcare and your privacy, you won’t want to miss this episode!

You can read the full version of the thesis here: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101713