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- Ebadzadeh Semnani, Sara, et al.
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Business Model Innovation Cases from the Wood Products Industry
- 2017
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Ingår i: Forest sector innovations for a greener future. - Vancouver. - 9780981787671
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Business Model Innovation Cases from the Wood Products IndustryGlobalization is further spurred by ICT in operations as well as customer relations also in the wood products industry. For meeting the increased competition, firms have to optimize internal resources to external opportunities. Increasingly, the Business Model (BM) concept has been a useful analytical tool. The BM concept offers good abstraction of activities and enables comparison between different business contexts. Emergently, studies have shifted focus from technology innovations towards innovations in BMs. However, the majority of studies in this field have treated all cases of BM innovations as a homogenous group and, as a result, paid little attention to the need for a fit between organizational and industry/contextual related factors.To address this gap, our research presents a study of two cases of BM innovations under transformations taking place in the wood products industry. These changes are brought about by (1) the need for an interplay between “upstream” and “downstream” strategies in the industry; and (2) the increasing need for servitization and solution-based models in organizations’ offerings. This research aims to study the influencing factors, consequences, challenges and order of changes in elements of BMs, in regard to the BM innovations that took place in the two case companies. Keywords: Business Model, Innovation, Transformation, Wood Industry, Case study
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- Hosseinpourpia, Reza, 1983-, et al.
(författare)
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Effect of lignin and hemicelluloses removal on dynamic water vapour sorption behavior of wood
- 2017
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Ingår i: IUFRO Division 5 Conference, 12-14 June, 2017 - Vancouver, British Columbia. - : IUFRO Division 5 Conference. - 9780981787671
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Water-related properties of wood are strongly depended on the sorption behavior of its hygroscopic polymers such as cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. To assess the sorption performance of wood matrix in the absence of hemicelluloses and lignin, micro-veneers of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) were hydrolyzed with sulphuric acid and delignified with sodium chlorite and acetic acid, respectively. The dynamic water vapour sorption of the hydrolyzed, delignified and untreated veneers was studied in a dynamic vapour sorption (DVS) apparatus. The moisture adsorption of hydrolyzed veneers was decreased in the relative humidity (RH) range above 60-70 %. Delignified veneers, however, showed obviously higher moisture adsorption at RH above 70%, as compared to untreated controls. Hydrolyzed and untreated veneers exhibited a comparable hysteresis, while delignified veneers showed a considerably lower hysteresis in comparison to them. This explains that, despite the fact that the hydrophilic hemicelluloses influence the moisture sorption of wood, the expand-ability of the cell wall matrix is mainly controlled by lignin.
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