Sustainable Business Modeling and Networking: A Systematic Review

Sustainability has become one of the main parts of business strategy. Companies want to use economic techniques and strategies for sustainability to both create economic value and at the same time reduce negative environmental impacts and address social issues. On the other hand, in order to connect to global markets and succeed in them, they have to be present in cross-border networks and it is necessary to take advantage of the opportunity after creating and modifying their (sustainable) business model in accordance with the operating network. This research is a systematic review research in which after extracting related keywords from the research literature, by forming a research search command and entering it into the Scopus database to provide the most referenced articles, authors, organizational affiliations, Magazines, etc. were used in Bibliometrics software. The seven main axes and the results of the answers given by the reviewed articles to these axes are presented. These axes are: how sustainability occurs in the business model, business networks and business model sustainability, the formation of business networks in the sustainable business model, value creation in networks in the sustainable business model Challenges of the presence of a sustainable business model in networks, effective factors in the success and failure of a sustainable business model in networks, the process of innovation in networks in a sustainable business model. The purpose of this article is to systematically review the research background in order to provide the above-mentioned analyzes in order to categorize the subjects studied, study trends, descriptive statistics of previous studies, and suggestions for managers and future research.