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- Carlborg, Per, 1984-, et al.
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Reconsidering place in relation to sustainability : An analysis of the intricate interplay in complex organizational networks
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The concept of place, as well as physicality of place, impacts sustainability practices in different ways. While management and organization studies have seen a rise in discussions on sustainable business models, we argue that place has lost its natural place in sustainability studies related to the business organization. Place offers a rootedness and a link to the natural, that all organizational activities are dependent on. Therefore, place has the capacity to drive and deepen sustainability practices.The purpose of this paper is to uncover the role of place in sustainability research and organizational practice. A topic, which in sustainability research related to the business organization has been rather weakly covered. By applying an abductive research approach, we identify four different settings for the relation between place and sustainability. We then develop a place typology that shows the different roles of place in sustainability research and practice.
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- Harrison, Debbie, et al.
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Business networks and sustainability : Past, present and future
- 2023
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In: Industrial Marketing Management. - : Elsevier. - 0019-8501 .- 1873-2062. ; 111, s. A10-A17
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There is a growing call for more network-level research on sustainability within marketing that avoids a narrow interorganisational focus. Business networks have a crucial role to play in reorganising and innovating to achieve sustainability and are met with significant challenges because of the scale and scope of changes necessary. We propose connectedness as central to understanding networked, interorganisational responses to the sustainability shift. We contribute by highlighting how systemic interdependence across organisations, which is developed through business network connectedness, is core to achieving sustainable networks and sustainable markets. The text provides an overview of current research on sustainability in business networks before synthesizing six new articles that address multiple sustainability challenges. The editorial concludes with an agenda for further research arranged around four main themes, including network dynamics and measuring and valuing in investigating the transformative change needed by all business sectors.
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- Harrison, Debbie, et al.
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Coordinating Activity Interdependencies in the Contemporary Economy : The Principle of Distributed Control
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In: British Journal of Management. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 1045-3172 .- 1467-8551. ; 34:3, s. 1488-1509
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study addresses the lack of knowledge about inter-organizational activity coordination in the contemporary economy. Existing understanding of economic coordination within inter-organizational research is based on the three modes of organization, market, and cooperative relationship. We extend the framework of Richardson that analyses specialization and complementarity within the industrial division of labour in terms of these three coordination modes. We propose a novel mode of coordinating economic activity, namely multi-actor arrangements, which is based on the coordination of very dissimilar yet complementary activities, grounded in the principle of distributed control. This fourth mode is necessary to explain contemporary phenomena such as the circular economy and blockchain because these involve interdependencies that were previously framed as too different or unrelated to coordinate. The extension is important because it changes our understanding of mixed-mode coordination. Our proposed fourth mode enables the conceptualization of how activity interdependencies are coordinated within inter-organizational relationships and networks undergoing transformation.
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- Karlsson, Fredrik, 1974-, et al.
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Attempts to share information between public sector organisations over time : A case-based exploration of value conflicts
- 2021
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In: Information Polity. - : IOS Press. - 1570-1255 .- 1875-8754. ; 26:3, s. 289-310
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite the importance of inter-organisational information sharing (IOIS) in the public sector, such endeavours often fail. Existing research has shown that the values held by collaborating organisations are one important factor affecting these kinds of initiatives. However, research has sought only to a limited extent to address how value conflicts come into play over time. Therefore, this paper aims to explore how conflicting values shape an inter-organisational information-sharing practice in the public sector over time. Using the local/global network framework, we analyse four years’ worth of information sharing in an inter-organisational advisory group in the context of Swedish nuclear waste management. We conclude that different value conflicts are emphasised to different extents at different points in time. That is, values do not uniformly affect IOIS activities, and such conflicts over time reduce the set of potential IOIS activities. We also conclude that when IOIS activities are driven by an individual organisation’s values, individual value rational activities may co-exist with a dysfunctional long-term IOIS practice.
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- Prenkert, Frans, 1969-, et al.
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Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
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In: Industrial Marketing Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0019-8501 .- 1873-2062. ; 105, s. 48-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Value co-creation is a core focus area in both B2B marketing and strategy research, necessitating resource utilization within and across organizational boundaries. In the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) group, scholars have focused on the interactions among resources as one important way to analyze central questions about resources in business relationships and networks. This has produced a breadth of investigations and concepts that are locally defined and utilized. This may hamper further theoretical development and inhibit analytical precision. The purpose of this paper is to develop a more general shared understanding of resource interaction by identifying and explicating the key concepts used, and to assess its status as an approach. The paper synthesizes 20 years of research to identify key concepts and the relationships across concepts. This provides both a platform for further conceptual and empirical research within IMP and potential for crossfertilization with parallel B2B areas.
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- Shahin Moghadam, Sara, 1987-
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Modelling the Structural Dynamics of Business Networks : Two Agent-based Models of Supply Networks
- 2021
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis aims at describing and analysing the structural changes of business networks that emerge as a result of change triggers. Despite previous studies, our understanding of the evolution of the network structure and its influencing factors is still limited. Specifically, the literature falls short in explicit consideration of the aggregate outcomes of various actors’ responses for the structure of the network. The methodological challenges have contributed to these shortcomings.The Industrial Networks Approach and Complexity Perspective are the theoretical points of departure in this thesis. As a consequence of viewing business networks as Complex Adaptive Systems, Agent-based modelling (ABM) and simulation is the specific methodology adopted. In this thesis, two ABMs are designed and implemented. In the first one, the strategic initiative of a railway operator gives rise to various customer responses. In the second one, a supply network with various supply chains is modelled. The pressure from end-customers triggers responses from business actors in terms of re-arranging their supply chains. The consequent structural changes in both networks and mechanisms involved are systematically explored through various computational experiments.The results contribute to the literature on business network dynamics by showing the influence of a set of Perceptual-Intentional factors as well as Contextual factors. A contribution of the adopted methodology is the ability to analyse the aggregate outcomes of the actor-level responses. The potential of ABM approach to be combined with case studies is illustrated. Opportunities for systematic experimentation and the formalization of theoretical concepts in ABMs contribute to better theory development. With ABM, more actors, interdependencies and larger time scales can be explored.
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