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- Andersson, Jonas E., et al.
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Addressing and transforming complexities in cities : Exploring logics and routines in Sweden
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Well-managed urbanization can be a transformative force towards socially and environmentally sustainable cities. The transformative change relies on knowledge and collaborative action, rather than disconnected knowledges from different scientific disciplines and of sectorial actors. A problem that hinders collaborative action is the complexity of sustainable urbanization. In this paper we aim to expand thinking on urban transformation from a multisectoral and tri-disciplinary research perspective. Methods in use are tri-disciplinary essays to identify multisectoral interests, logics and routines in urban transformation. Essayistic insights form and develop three analytical dialogues on a range of urban transformation specificities in the urban complexity and related to sustainable urbanization. The essays are collaboratively interpreted as a Saskia Sassen inspired de-theorising process to get hold of complexities in cities by social, self-reflective and introspective processes. There are multi-sectoral issues difficult to develop with current modes of thinking and independent logic of developments. A re-theorization is proposed with collective ways of understanding, interacting and developing urban sustainable solutions that aims to appropriately address the complexities of the urban environment. Two ways of thinking and acting is contrasted. Independent and interdependent logics of leadership cultures for sustainable development are considered as a new way to theorise around the sustainable city. Implications concern complexities in cities such as how to design and develop urban projects that embraces actors' concerns and knowledge for sustainable development. There appear many simultaneous action nets of urban transformation specificities. These are based on actors’ logics, routines, ambitions, and collaboration. Leadership for transformation is not the independent cultures with one or few actors in the action nets but the interdependent culture making room for and adapt specificities of the engaged actors.
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- Beavan, Katie, et al.
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Changing writing/writing for change
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender, Work and Organization. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0968-6673 .- 1468-0432. ; 28:2, s. 449-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The political potential of unconventional and even transgressive forms of writing in management and organization studies has been invigorated in recent years through an explicit connection with feminist theories, ideas, and practices. The results have been a new wave of scholarship that brings together the personal, the political, and the theoretical as a means to intervene in masculine orthodoxy of organizational writing. This intervention seeks to change what and how we understand organizational phenomena, with an ultimate goal of transforming practice toward a more equal and egalitarian future. We introduce five papers that responded to a call to explore the intersections between change and academic writing, as well as an exploration of alternatives to dominant masculine academic writing styles. Such writing, we aver, might facilitate change not just in the academy, but also in organizations and by extension, society.
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- Borgström, Benedikte, et al.
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How come logistics operators’ ROI are so low despite warehouse operations are very cost efficient? : A business model reconsideration of logistics facilities
- 2020
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Ingår i: The 32nd ANNUAL NOFOMA CONFERENCE. - : University of Iceland Press.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeWarehouses are of crucial importance to manage increased e-commerce. This study will explore and analyse the warehouse as a relational business model. Design/methodology/approachThe complex reality of warehouse business development is researched by a qualitative approach analysed in terms of service logic business models. Theoretically, service innovation literature is used to develop understanding of value creation related to e-commerce warehousing. FindingsFacility location and warehouse management relies of theoretical premises that business is foreseeable. The business model innovation in which real estate actors and logistics actors co-create flexible warehouse solutions is in development. A substantial contribution to logistics and supply chain efficiency and effectiveness is from real estate actors. Logistics actors need logistics facilities to create value for their customers and their competences are related to their network, relations and solution making. Real estate actors’ competences are in developing logistics facilities, which is a way of servitizating service providers. The relationship between real estate actors and logistics providers thereby become of strategic importance for both. Research limitations/implicationsThe warehouse as a relational business model opens up for future research by exploring use of and need of new sets of competences.Practical implicationsLogistics service providers’ may further develop and broaden their core competences. Original/valueBusiness model considerations are of value to e-commerce logistics actors.
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- Borgström, Benedikte, et al.
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Road Haulier Competition : Implications for Supply Chain Integration
- 2023
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Ingår i: Supply Chain - Perspectives and Applications. - Rijeka : IntechOpen. - 9781837691067
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- Road freight competition is playing out in deregulated markets. The EU single market is a market with abundant responses in terms of haulier strategic actions. This chapter situates the crucial role of road haulier strategies in the logistics service supply chain and industrial supply chain to achieve sustainability. Competitive and sustainable transport depends on effective transport services, vehicles and transport infrastructure, and conditions that foster the development of transport and logistics services. By examining how four case firms develop competences and make use of available resources we develop insights into road haulier competition and its implications. The chapter contributes to understanding how road hauliers are part of logistics service chains as well as industrial supply chains and how the many links and relationships increase the magnitude and implications of hauliers’ performances.
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- Borgström, Benedikte, et al.
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Smart Consumer-Oriented Urban Logistics
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Service innovation is the nexus between the growing e-commerce in urban areas and the ongoing Corona pandemic and seasonal peaks like Christmas. The growing market of urban e-commerce logistics needs solution-driven freight and urban logistics, which is an assumption of this study. Consumer-oriented urban logistics services enable consumers in their everyday and enable a well-functioning urban logistics market are a co-operation between consumers and urban service providers. A service-logic perspective may offer service innovation and value co-creation for the urban logistics challenge that includes last mile logistics.This conceptual paper aims to develop strategic logistics service provision literature and service innovation literature to facilitate collaborative development between consumers and service providers. Central aspects are consumer's everyday routines and available solutions in terms of urban deliveries and returns, available interaction points between consumers and service providers in daily practices, and knowledge and resources of urban service provider (related to e-commerce logistics) for innovative offerings. The everyday consumption practice and its logistics are key in co-created service innovations. In-depth understanding of consumption practices and production practices is the basis to align resources for a differentiated urban logistics solution. Such a process develops both urban service consumption practices and production practices. Urban service providers like logistics firms, commercial real estaters, and e-retailers have complementary types of competencies to facilitate urban service innovation. The study will generate implications to the urban e-commerce logistics research area and benefit both academia and business.
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- Borgström, Benedikte, et al.
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Strategic development of third-party logistics providers (TPLs) : “Going under the floor” or “raising the roof”?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Industrial Marketing Management. - : Elsevier. - 0019-8501 .- 1873-2062. ; 97, s. 183-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary (third-party logistics providers) TPLs are in danger of being stuck in the middle, unable to perform customer adaptation as well as before and unable to achieve sufficient economies of scale. This conceptual paper aims to explore challenges facing the strategic development of TPLs within a context of increased digitalization, e-commerce and servitization. There are two apparent strategic paths. Under circumstances of strong price pressure, there is demand for standardized TPL services offering simplicity, minimalism and functionality based on digitalization, e-commerce and servitization. Alternatively, with market developments responsive to supply chain complexity, digitalization, e-commerce and servitization enable development towards innovation and change. We conclude that these developments do not invalidate existing frameworks for TPL strategies but contribute alternative strategies. We formulate three propositions for each strategic path. To avoid being stuck in the middle, TPLs are encouraged to either develop efficient services through servitized logistics chains and digital solutions or develop advanced solutions to integrate the consumer into the logistics network system through competencies to control increased levels of complexity.
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- Borgström, Benedikte, et al.
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Sustainable logistics properties : Drivers, barriers, and opportunities for co-creating sustainability after certification
- 2022
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Ingår i: Book of Proceedings 2022 Malmö Real Estate Research Conference. - 9789178772964
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The building and construction sector accounted for 36 per cent of global energy consumption and 37 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions according to the Global Status report for Buildings and Construction 2021, and the transport sector accounted for 23 per cent of global energy consumption and 26 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions (United Nations Environment Programme, 2021). Hence the call for sustainability and sustainable development is significant for logistics properties and real estate business enact it in terms of sustainable change that ends in building-specific certifications. Certifications are multi-criteria credit systems, such as BREEAM or LEED certifications that are valuing credits within a prescribed range in multiple sustainability categories. Logistics properties is a growing and profitable market segment that attract large investments and that pose an important societal challenge, for example, in terms of efficient e-business flows. As more logistics properties are being certified with the global certifications systems such as BREEAM and LEED it is timely to question how the certifications contribute to sustainability, and how real estate firms’ sustainability strategies can make logistics warehouse operations less harmful and actually contribute to diverse sustainability values and leverage sustainability performance. The purpose of this paper is to increase knowledge of sustainable logistics properties, by research questions concerning: what are the drivers, barriers, and opportunities for sustainability after certification?Sustainability created by certifications are part of the sustainability transformation. Certifications are important, but sustainable development calls for an integrated achievement with others for a better society that we don’t know about but that is created in coordination with others. Co-creation is key for the sustainability transformation and that process involves investors, cross-functional within the firm, customers and customer work force, municipal actors, academia, governance of sustainability at the firm, external evaluators and certifications, and overlapping standards. Each of these opportunities of cocreating is related to sustainability drivers and barriers. Theoretical implications are posed for literature on real estate business, and logistics and transport business regarding sustainable development, especially sustainable logistics properties. The abductive learning approach offers a temporary conclusion at a specific time in a flow of sustainable development, which is important to further the sustainability research frontier in these literatures.Practical implications are related to the journey of sustainable development, including but not ending with the certification methodology. A focus on sustainability is a change through practice in which document production (certification and its network of evaluations) have both an ostensive meaning from principles of certifications and a performative meaning through the relations between the documents and the practices and processes they relate to. Resources such as land, financing, and talent tends to center around firms that distinguish themselves as contributing to sustainability hence sustainable development is a relational task.
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