Circular Innovation Processes from an Absorptive Capacity Perspective: The Case of Cradle to Cradle

Schmitt, Julia; Hansen, Erik G.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2018.16814abstract

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“…It currently covers approximately 391 certified products by 187 manufacturers worldwide (Ünal & Shao, 2019). How extensive it is implemented varies along motives (Smits, Drabe, & Herstatt, 2020) and a firm's ability to absorb external knowledge (Schmitt & Hansen, 2018). The C2C certified products standard (C2CPII, 2016) supports companies' innovation processes by breaking the overarching design philosophy down into specific criteria.…”

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Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation

Hansen

Schmitt

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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The circular economy (CE) aims at cycling products and materials in closed technical and biological loops. Cradle to cradle (C2C) operationalizes the CE with a product design concept rooted in the circulation of “healthy” materials because contamination of materials with substances of concern hampers cycling and may pose risks to people in contact with them. Extant research shows that barriers often hinder organizations from successfully pursuing cradle‐to‐cradle product innovation (CPI). Innovation community theory helps to explain how to overcome barriers and further the innovation process by taking a microlevel perspective on intra‐ and interorganizational collaboration of individual promotors (or champions). We elaborate innovation community theory with a longitudinal embedded case study of a C2C frontrunner company with the goal to get a precise understanding of how promotors collaborate in the CPI process. Our contribution is threefold: We identify eight collaboration mechanisms used between promotors to sequentially overcome a hub firm's individual, organizational, value chain, and institutional level barriers to circularity. Second, we differentiate these mechanisms according to their cooperative and coordinative facets and put emphasis on the coordinative functions of those mechanisms linked to the C2C standard. Third, we highlight the importance of promotors at the linking level who facilitate the CPI process as intermediaries.

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Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation

Hansen

Schmitt

2020

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…In companies operating in the CE model, external knowledge is important not only in the context of new technologies but also sustainable development trends (Dzhengiz and Niesten 2020). The research shows that ''a contextualized process model of absorptive capacity in explaining the unique challenges in circular product innovation'' (Schmitt and Hansen 2018).…”

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Managerial decisions and new product development in the circular economy model enterprise: absorptive capacity and a mediating role of strategic orientation

Stelmaszczyk

Pierścieniak

Abrudan³

2023

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The study explains the flow of knowledge in the circular economy model enterprises. We analyze the impact of managerial decisions on the absorptive capacity, which is new product development, considering the role of critical elements of strategic orientation (innovation and costs) in the textile industry. Based on the verification of hypotheses by employing the SEM method, innovation orientation is a mediator between adaptability-oriented decisions and transformation, and between adaptability-oriented decisions and exploitation. Ambidexterity-oriented decisions affect absorptive capacity. These findings semanticize and extend previous research, indicating that strategic activities focused on eco-innovations are transformed into the process of creating a new product.

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“…Hence, it can acutely limit the identification of suitable opportunities for organizational innovation. IT may have a positive and facilitating effect on the processing of organizational knowledge (Gerhan and Mutula, 2007; Conger, 2015; Roberts et al , 2016; Schmitt and Hansen, 2018). The capacity of absorbing knowledge is an important tool in learning from knowledge resources.…”

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“…In the present study, innovation refers to the process in which librarians, as library technology users, complete daily tasks in an innovative way and with a high spirit of learning. The studies on innovation and IT show that innovation not only can improve the use of technologies but also can increase an organization's service development through knowledge and learning absorptive capacity (Trivellas and Santouridis, 2013; Černáková, 2015; Schmitt and Hansen, 2018). Therefore, with the growth of innovation in libraries, significant effects are expected on the quality of the librarians' service delivery and performance.…”

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Innovation in using IT: understanding the impact of knowledge absorptive capacity on academic librarians

Kakhki

Zarqi

Harati

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PurposeThe aim of this study is to examine the effect of organizational levers and information technology (IT) absorptive capacity on librarians' innovation.Design/methodology/approachThis survey-analytic study investigated the librarians who were working in the libraries of the medical sciences universities in Iran. The data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire distributed randomly among the members of the sample. The SEM and the LISREL software for data analysis were used.FindingsIt was found that the librarians' job autonomy and fairness of rewards had an effect on acquiring new knowledge and applying transformed knowledge. Although the results did not confirm the effect of the librarians' job autonomy on knowledge assimilation and transformation, they showed a direct and positive effect of fairness of rewards on knowledge assimilation and transformation. Furthermore, this study confirmed the effect of acquiring and applying new knowledge about the library IT on enhancing the librarians' innovation. The effect of knowledge assimilation and transformation, from the application of IT in libraries, on the librarians' innovation was not confirmed.Practical implicationsLearning about the effect of organizational levers on librarians' knowledge absorptive capacities, in terms of applying technologies, to create innovation is an important issue. This will elucidate the gaps of disregarding the effect of organizational levers and librarians' knowledge absorptive capacities on librarians' innovation, and will pave the way for better planning to achieve the libraries' innovative goals.Originality/valueThis is among the few articles that have helped to fill the existing theoretical and research gap in knowledge absorptive capacity in Library and Information Science (LIS). In addition, this article has made a valuable contribution to understanding the role of IT knowledge absorptive capacity as a mediator variable between the organizational levers and librarians' innovation.

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Circular Innovation Processes from an Absorptive Capacity Perspective: The Case of Cradle to Cradle

Cited by 9 publications

References 33 publications

Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation

Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation

Managerial decisions and new product development in the circular economy model enterprise: absorptive capacity and a mediating role of strategic orientation

Innovation in using IT: understanding the impact of knowledge absorptive capacity on academic librarians

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