Incumbents and business model innovation for the sharing economy: Implications for sustainability

Ciulli, Francesca; Kolk, Ans

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.295

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“…It would be interesting, therefore, to replicate this study in a different industry, such as utilities or the oil and gas sector, and examine incumbents' engagement in renewables. More research on the automotive industry, and incumbents in particular, is also needed considering recent technological developments such as autonomous driving and social innovation related to carsharing (Ciulli & Kolk, ). It would be interesting to study how these developments interact with the development of EVs and the diffusion of systemic innovation.…”

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“…It would be interesting, therefore, to replicate this study in a different industry, such as utilities or the oil and gas sector, and examine incumbents' engagement in renewables. More research on the automotive industry, and F I G U R E 2 First movers' central role in pushing industry transformation toward sustainable product innovation incumbents in particular, is also needed considering recent technological developments such as autonomous driving and social innovation related to carsharing (Ciulli & Kolk, 2019…”

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Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation

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Given that entire industries face sustainability challenges, it is important to understand the dynamics that lead "firms-in-an-industry" to engage in sustainable product innovation. To provide more insight into the question of how innovation activities spread from individual firm action to an industry-wide engagement, this paper examines the automobile industry and the development of electric vehicles (EVs). The analysis covers automobile incumbents over a crucial decade for EV development in the industry, focusing on the different strategic motives that especially the so-called "first movers" used to justify their earlier engagement. We find that EVs became a core pillar of the incumbents' technology strategies through a combination of coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures. Yet, the strategic motives to engage in EVs stayed poles apart between different companies. The insights from our study are relevant for those interested in the diffusion of sustainable product innovation and in incumbent behaviour in sustainability transitions.

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“…It would be interesting, therefore, to replicate this study in a different industry, such as utilities or the oil and gas sector, and examine incumbents' engagement in renewables. More research on the automotive industry, and F I G U R E 2 First movers' central role in pushing industry transformation toward sustainable product innovation incumbents in particular, is also needed considering recent technological developments such as autonomous driving and social innovation related to carsharing (Ciulli & Kolk, 2019…”

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“…First, it seems to conflict with mainstream definitions of the sharing economy, which restrict the concept to the provision of temporary access to an underutilized good by consumers to other consumers (Frenken and Schor 2017). Second, characterizing food waste platforms as 'sharing' brings in the question of whether they meet the sharing economy's social and economic promise (e.g., Acquier et al 2017;Ciulli and Kolk 2019;Murillo et al 2017). This debate, however, does not apply to many of the food waste platforms that have emerged in the last years.…”

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Circularity Brokers: Digital Platform Organizations and Waste Recovery in Food Supply Chains

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In recent years, researchers and practitioners have increasingly paid attention to food waste, which is seen as highly unethical given its negative environmental and societal implications. Waste recovery is dependent on the creation of connections along the supply chain, so that actors with goods at risk of becoming waste can transfer them to those who may be able to use them as inputs or for their own consumption. Such waste recovery is, however, often hampered by what we call 'circularity holes', i.e., missing linkages between waste generators and potential receivers. A new type of actor, the digital platform organization, has recently taken on a brokerage function to bridge circularity holes, particularly in the food supply chain. Yet, extant literature has overlooked this novel type of brokerage that exploits digital technology for the transfer and recovery of discarded resources between supply chain actors. Our study investigates this actor, conceptualized as a 'circularity broker', and thus unites network research and circular supply chain research. Focusing on the food supply chain, we adopt an interpretive inductive theory-building approach to uncover how platform organizations foster the recovery of waste by bridging circularity holes. We identify and explicate six brokerage roles, i.e., connecting, informing, protecting, mobilizing, integrating and measuring, and discuss them in relation to extant literature, highlighting novelties compared to earlier studies. The final section reflects on contributions, implications, limitations and areas for further research.

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“…Knowledge sharing has a critical role in firms' business growth, since it supports businesses to generate new ideas, products, or services [17]. Knowledge sharing among employees ensures the transfer of thoughts, information, insights and experiences, and consequently, becomes a source of creativity and innovation in organizations [18]. The sharing of knowledge promotes the transmission of learning between teams, groups and individuals working within the organizations [19,20].…”

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The Impact of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation on Sustainable Performance in Islamic Banks: A Mediation Analysis through a SEM Approach

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This research is among the very few studies seeking a focalized examination on the relationship between knowledge sharing within a firm and organizational innovation. This specific study establishes that the knowledge sharing and innovation processes in Islamic banks are integral parts of the survival and progress of business organizations. Knowledge sharing and creativity are essential elements in the development of innovative strategies, but few studies have sought to investigate this relationship. This study proposes a framework with five hypotheses, which predicts the influences of knowledge sharing and organizational innovation on the Pakistani banking sector. This survey scrutinizes the impacts of knowledge sharing and innovation, and its primary objective is to determine how learning in Islamic banks mediates the relationship, and enhances the performance, of Pakistani Islamic banks. The authors distributed a self-administered survey, and randomly selected 554 employees from Mirpur AJ&K, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. We screened and tested the data received using SPSS version 25 for analysis purposes to measure the strength of the relationships which exist among the studied variables. The findings indicate that all of the proposed hypotheses have significant positive relationships, proving that knowledge sharing and organizational innovation have mediating impacts upon organizational learning. The findings can also be used to propose a systematic and holistic framework for attaining an improved performance in Islamic banks through the mediating role of organizational learning. This study offers empirical evidence and original data to examine the connection between knowledge sharing, innovation processes and learning culture in Islamic Banks. The generalizability of these findings is restricted to Islamic banks, and the study delivers valuable insights and suggestions for imminent research studies.

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Incumbents and business model innovation for the sharing economy: Implications for sustainability

Cited by 146 publications

References 47 publications

Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation

Driving the electric bandwagon: The dynamics of incumbents' sustainable innovation

Circularity Brokers: Digital Platform Organizations and Waste Recovery in Food Supply Chains

The Impact of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation on Sustainable Performance in Islamic Banks: A Mediation Analysis through a SEM Approach

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