Paper Number
ICIS2026-1333
Paper Type
Completed
Abstract
Designing collaborative business models (CBMs) for multi-actor sustainability initiatives and assessing their viability poses a complex information systems challenge. It necessitates dynamic, simulation-based decision-support artifacts that can represent multi-actor collaborations and evaluate financial, environmental, and social value exchanges as they evolve over time. Current research on CBM viability remains firm-centric and static, leaving multi-actor sustainability contexts largely underexplored. To address this gap, we follow the Design Science Research methodology to iteratively develop and evaluate two artifacts, instantiated in the context of offshore green hydrogen production. The first artifact is a CBM design that adopts a network-centric perspective on value co-creation among involved actors. The second artifact is a simulation-based viability analysis model that employs System Dynamics to jointly assess these value exchanges over time. Together, the artifacts yield actionable policy and governance recommendations and offer transferable design rationales for simulation-based viability analysis and decision support artifacts in multi-actor sustainability contexts.
Recommended Citation
Elenbaas, Joost Jan; Rettab, Yasmin; Turetken, Oktay; Tsilionis, Konstantinos; and Kinderen, Sybren, "A Collaborative Business Model and System Dynamics-based Viability Analysis for Offshore Green Hydrogen Production" (2026). ICIS 2026 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2026/sustenv/sustenv/1
A Collaborative Business Model and System Dynamics-based Viability Analysis for Offshore Green Hydrogen Production
Designing collaborative business models (CBMs) for multi-actor sustainability initiatives and assessing their viability poses a complex information systems challenge. It necessitates dynamic, simulation-based decision-support artifacts that can represent multi-actor collaborations and evaluate financial, environmental, and social value exchanges as they evolve over time. Current research on CBM viability remains firm-centric and static, leaving multi-actor sustainability contexts largely underexplored. To address this gap, we follow the Design Science Research methodology to iteratively develop and evaluate two artifacts, instantiated in the context of offshore green hydrogen production. The first artifact is a CBM design that adopts a network-centric perspective on value co-creation among involved actors. The second artifact is a simulation-based viability analysis model that employs System Dynamics to jointly assess these value exchanges over time. Together, the artifacts yield actionable policy and governance recommendations and offer transferable design rationales for simulation-based viability analysis and decision support artifacts in multi-actor sustainability contexts.
Comments
04_Sustainability_and_environment