From vision to commercialization of a circular economy innovation: a longitudinal study of overcoming challenges throughout the full innovation process

Kaipainen, Jenni; Aarikka‐Stenroos, Leena

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“…In addition, Blomsma et al (2019) emphasise the role of knowledge, skills, and applicability of business processes as core competences that allow companies to plan, lead, organise, and control CE configurations. These competences are at the core of several companies and may enable the design and transformation of their circular business model (Kaipainen & Aarikka-Stenroos, 2021;. Core competences and resources are not necessarily already owned by the companies but may depend on external actors.…”

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The routledge handbook of catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

2023

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The routledge handbook of catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

2023

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How to renew business strategy to achieve sustainability and circularity? A process model of strategic development in incumbent technology companies

Kaipainen

Aarikka‐Stenroos

2022

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Strategic development to promote sustainability and circularity challenges incumbents to fundamentally renew their way of doing business. However, the management of this type of strategic development process, that is, strategic renewal aiming at achieving sustainability, remains largely unknown. Therefore, we investigated what constitutes incumbents' strategic renewal aimed at achieving sustainability and how to manage each stage of this process. We conducted a single-case study of the incumbent tech company, Neste Oyj, which is renewing from a fossil-based business to a sustainable and circular business. We analyzed multisourced interview-and document-based data collected from a 25-year longitudinal case study by applying a processual approach and the critical incident technique. We proposed an empirically based process model of business strategy renewal comprising five stages, each of which follows the subprocesses of strategic formulation, implementation, and evaluation. The findings and the process model extend the theoretical understanding of incumbents' business strategy development to achieve sustainability and circularity. The proposed model will enable managers to understand what management issues to focus on and what actions are needed at each stage of the strategic renewal process.

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How to Engage Stakeholders in Circular Economy Ecosystems: The Process

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Aarikka‐Stenroos

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Stakeholder Engagement in a Sustainable Circular Economy

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Achieving a circular economy (CE) requires collaboration between diverse stakeholders, which often happens in socio-technical ecosystem settings, where complementary stakeholders can pursue the system-level goal of improving circularity. The stakeholders, as well as the ecosystem settings in which they collaborate, are diverse, which might impact the process of how stakeholders can be engaged in the CE goals. Thus, to achieve CE goals, different stakeholder engagement processes are needed in different ecosystem settings. Bringing together stakeholder engagement, the ecosystem approach, and CE research as our theoretical background, we address the considerable lack of empirical case research on stakeholder engagement processes by analysing six critical topical CE ecosystem cases in Finland: two at the regional level (a local environmental issue and an industrial collaboration), three at the national level (nutrient recycling, the construction sector, and beverage packaging recycling), and one at the global level (a sustainable fast-food business). Based on a detailed case analysis, we conceptualised four stakeholder engagement process archetypes to achieve CE goals. We propose a model that shows how stakeholders are engaged in different CE ecosystem settings depending on the ecosystem structure and the alignment of stakeholder interests with achieving the CE system-level goal. The model and archetypes contribute to the theory and can benefit organisations and managers engaging stakeholders in emerging or established CE ecosystems.

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From vision to commercialization of a circular economy innovation: a longitudinal study of overcoming challenges throughout the full innovation process

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

The routledge handbook of catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

The routledge handbook of catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

How to renew business strategy to achieve sustainability and circularity? A process model of strategic development in incumbent technology companies

How to Engage Stakeholders in Circular Economy Ecosystems: The Process

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