Path Dependence or Path Creation?

Garud, Raghu; Kumaraswamy, Arun; Karnøe, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00914.x

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“…This differing ability to use different sources of value creation is important (Chesbrough 2010). The background of a firm brings certain resources and routines with it, leading to a specific development path (Garud et al 2010). We presuppose path dependence to have a large impact on the process of creating a business model for the carsharing market, for which reason we expect differences between firms from different backgrounds.…”

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Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

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Carsharing provides an alternative to private car ownership by allowing car use temporarily on an on-demand basis. Operators provide carsharing services using different business models and ownership structures. We distinguish between cooperative, business-to-consumer (B2C) roundtrip and one-way, as well as peer-topeer (P2P) carsharing. This paper characterizes these different types of business models and compares their success in terms of diffusion using a comprehensive database of all 101 German carsharing providers in 2016. The key result holds that fleet size is significantly different across business models ranging from a few cars (cooperatives in small towns), to a few hundred (B2C roundtrip in larger cities), to over a thousand (B2C one-way in largest cities), up to multiple thousands (P2P across the country). By analyzing for each operator the number of cars per capita in the city they operate in, we do not find significant differences across business models indicating the viability of each separate business model type. Hence, we conclude that business models will continue to co-exist for a while, although some of the business models may well converge in the longer run due to Internet-ofThings applications and the introduction of self-driving cars.

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Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

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“…Firstly, we add to the research on managing cleantech firms by exploring the signaling strategies developed by these types of firms. Secondly, we add to both signaling and technology entrepreneurship theory by describing types and effects of signaling in new entrants' search for legitimacy [20,21]. Formulated as propositions, our study's conclusions explicate signaling actions that entrepreneurs founding clean-tech start-ups undertake as they build companies and establish their legitimacy vis-à-vis resource providers and other actors from the established markets, in both early and late development stages.…”

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“…Secondly, the technology of emerging industries is often under-developed. Technological standards are also emerging or even absent [21]. For example, the cleantech industry covers a wide range of sub-sectors: from solar power that is becoming increasingly legitimized to the wave energy sub-sector that still lacks commonly wide-spread technological standards [23,24].…”

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Reveal or Conceal? Signaling Strategies for Building Legitimacy in Cleantech Firms

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New entrants in technology-intense industries are in a race to build legitimacy in order to compete with established players. Legitimacy has been identified as a driver of venture survival and growth; it helps mitigate third-party uncertainty and so facilitates access to resources, engagement with customers and other stakeholders. Nevertheless, we know little about how legitimacy is built and how new entrants build legitimacy in complex technology-intensive industries. In this research we explore how Norwegian cleantech firms use signaling and strategic actions to build legitimacy. We analyze five cases while investigating their actions in different phases of the venture's evolution. The results suggest that, contrary to signaling theory expectations, young clean-tech firms do not always build legitimacy by conveying information on their strengths. Instead, we observe that they use signaling strategies to address the specific concerns of different stakeholders. This is very much contingent upon the evolutionary stage of the venture and the firm's current weaknesses.

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“…The solution space reveals how constrained regions or sectors are based on socio-economic, environmental and infrastructural factors to transition to sustainable and secure water use pathways (Brown et al, 2005;Garud et al, 2010). Within the solution space, sustainable and secure development pathways can be explored.…”

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A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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Abstract. We present a new framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation. The framework sets out a method to capture regional and sectoral interdependencies and cross-scale feedbacks within the global food system that contribute to emergent water use patterns. The framework integrates aspects of existing models and approaches in the fields of hydrology and integrated assessment modelling. The core of the framework is a multi-agent network of city agents connected by infrastructural trade networks. Agents receive socio-economic and environmental constraint information from integrated assessment models and hydrological models respectively and simulate complex, socio-environmental dynamics that operate within those constraints. The emergent changes in food and water resources are aggregated and fed back to the original models with minimal modification of the structure of those models. It is our conviction that the framework presented can form the basis for a new wave of decision tools that capture complex socio-environmental change within our globalised world. In doing so they will contribute to illuminating pathways towards a sustainable future for humans, ecosystems and the water they share.

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Path Dependence or Path Creation?

Cited by 599 publications

References 61 publications

Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

Carsharing business models in Germany: characteristics, success and future prospects

Reveal or Conceal? Signaling Strategies for Building Legitimacy in Cleantech Firms

A framework for modelling the complexities of food and water security under globalisation

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