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- Bennich, Amelie, et al.
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Operating in the shadowland : Why water utilities fail to manage decaying infrastructure
- 2023
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Ingår i: Utilities Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0957-1787 .- 1878-4356. ; 82, s. 101557-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decaying water infrastructure is a growing challenge in high-income countries while at the same time being under pressure from other socioeconomic and environmental issues. This paper analyses why addressing these challenges is so challenging, despite the critical role of water service for society. The paper is based on a study of the Swedish water sector and reveals how the utilities are influenced by several factors that constrain their agency. Most importantly, the utilities operate in a ‘societal shadowland’ where the public and politicians take their services for granted, lowering the sense of urgency and impeding their ability to take action.
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- Bennich, Amelie, et al.
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Windows of Opportunity for Transition of Water Infrastructure Systems
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The water sector of Europe and North America, which provide drinking water and wastewater services to the society, today face a number of significant challenges that are pressuring the existing systems and challenging the current status-quo. With the emergence of new technologies, opportunities for new ways of managing and maintaining these infrastructural systems are enabled. At the same time, many infrastructural systems are difficult to change due to path dependencies, technological lock-ins, and conservative regimes and system cultures (David, 1992; Hughes, 1983; 1992; Kaijser, 2003). This especially applies to the water sector in the global North, which has developed over a very long period of time and consists of a large number of incumbent organisations, which taken together creates significant barriers towards innovation and change.Transition theory postulates that pressure from the socio-technical landscape, internal momentum from niche-innovations, and growing destabilisation of the regime enhance a window of opportunity (w/o) for a possible transition (Geels and Schot, 2007). However, despite a sector functioning under a well-established “global water regime” (Fuenfschilling and Binz, 2018), the operations of water utilities are in practice situated in different local conditions, creating significantly different window of opportunity dynamics (Tongur and Engwall, 2017). Hence, from a public policy point of view, water and wastewater service provision cannot be treated as a coherent regime of national or global scale but must consider local geophysical and socio-political conditions.This paper sets out to identify challenges - or innovation pressures - faced by water utilities in the stabilised European regime setting and to outline how these challenges differ depending on local geophysical and socio-political conditions. Our paper is based on a study of the water sector in Sweden, known for its well-functioning societal infrastructures and stable public institutions. Based on the empirical findings, we demonstrate that incumbent regime actors of the Swedish water sector mainly perceive pressure from ageing infrastructures and demographical changes, where the rigidness of the current regime is largely influenced by the political governance and current economic system. Furthermore, the findings illustrated how the regime actors’ abilities to respond to pressures were largely influenced by two local conditions on municipal level; (1) population size, and (2) population density. We suggest that emphasising such differences is important to understand where and how the water sector is most agile to change, and what hinders and facilitate that change.
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- Berlin, Daniel, 1993-, et al.
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Organizing ERS Projects: Implications for Demonstrations and Deployments : A Comparative Stakeholder Analysis of the Swedish ERS-Projects eRoadArlanda and eHighway E16
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The electric road system (ERS) receives increasing attention as a potential solution to cope with the transition to environmentally friendly heavy road transport. Moving from the initial technology development phase to the technology demonstration phase has motivated the creation of demonstration projects. Thus, ERS-project organizations have evolved.This report makes an inquiry into the organizing of ERS-projects. It is based on a comparative analysis of the two ongoing demonstration projects in Sweden; eRoadArlanda and eHighway E16. The study addresses what implications the current ERS demonstration projects can provide through a stakeholder assessment.The outcome of the study is 11 implications for the organizing of ERS demonstration and deployment projects. These are divided among the six perspectives: project leadership, electric road vehicle, electric infrastructure, funding, verification, and interest vs power.
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- Darwish, Rami, et al.
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The business model in a cage the embeddedness challenge of business model design in systemic innovation
- 2020
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Ingår i: 26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference, IAMOT 2017. - : International Association for Management of Technology Conference (IAMOT) and the Graduate School of Technology Management, University of Pretoria. ; , s. 1125-1139
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we address the issue of business model (BM) design difficulty facing bus incumbents namely a bus manufacturer and a bus operator during a technological change manifested in opportunity electrical charging. We utilize an in-depth longitudinal case study design to investigate the roots of this issue. The state of the art literature on BM suggests that BM decisions are conducted within the organization and that the business model design is an internal choice. While our findings relate to the BM literature by highlighting the tension between the present and potential BMs for the incumbents, they also illuminate a contribution that BM design decisions for both manufacturer and the operator are embedded in the rules of the public transportation authority. Hence, this paper illustrates how technology change exposes the embeddedness of the business models in the context, and that business model decisions can't be made in isolation.
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- Engwall, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Cheetah Teams
- 2001
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Ingår i: Harvard Business Review. - 0017-8012. ; 2:9, s. 20-21
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- Engwall, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Experimental networks for business model innovation : A way for incumbents to navigate sustainability transitions?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Technovation. - : Elsevier BV. - 0166-4972 .- 1879-2383. ; 108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To navigate sustainability transitions, firms are often prompted to take an active role in business model innovation. Previous research has shown, however, that when attempting to change business models, incumbent firms frequently face challenges concerning the ambiguity of transition pathways. This paper is an inquiry into this intersection between business model innovation and sustainability transitions. Anchored in three case studies of sustainability-driven, pre-commercial projects of emerging technologies, it reveals how groups of organizations collaborate in time-limited, cross-industry networks, to explore potential business models for anticipated, profound, changes in socio-technical systems. Drawing on these findings, the paper introduces the concept of experimental networks and illustrates how experimental networks can facilitate business model innovation in relation to systemic change. By outlining the constituents of the experimental network concept, the paper contributes to theory by uncovering the interplay of interorganizational collaboration and network level business model innovation. In addition, it reveals how experimental networks constitute one way for incumbents to claim agency with respect to emerging sustainability transitions.
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- Engwall, Mats, 1961-, et al.
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Explorative project networks: Means for business model innovation?
- 2018
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Ingår i: R&D Management Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- When facing business model innovation, a key challenge for incumbent firms is the redefinition of industry and organizational boundaries. Drawing on findings from three cases studies this article suggests that inter-organizational projects can be effective means for mobilizing distributed resources and capabilities in order to gain business model innovation. This empirical phenomenon is discussed and analysed in detail, and implications for future research are suggested.
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