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sustainable development and the creation of new virtuous Ethics approval and consent to participate
practices that promote new forms of sociality and collective
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The frameworks presented, which are related to Consent for publication
the definition of a new BM for the creative industries, Not applicable.
demonstrate how the process of transformation occurring
in the CCIs is increasingly in need of redefinition. This Availability of data
redefinition better illustrates the main values underlying the
good practices triggered by the pandemic and consolidates Requests to access the data should be directed to all the
that openness to new green, digital, and social values. organizations that take part in this study and to the
Moreover, as has been shown, there is a positive relationship corresponding author that can only partially provide
between learning orientation and innovation in the BM, a anonymized data.
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