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Innovazione del Modello di Business e Dynamic Capabilities per l'Economia Circolare: un approccio mixed-method
No full textLe sfide ambientali hanno reso il modello dell’economia circolare centrale sia per le imprese che per i policymakers. Per questo motivo, la ricerca manageriale si è sempre più concentrata su questo argomento, dando vita a un filone di ricerca volto a comprendere la transizione verso modelli di business circolari. Questa ricerca si propone di esplorare la transizione sia a livello organizzativo che inter-organizzativo. Infatti, la letteratura esistente sottolinea che le aziende non possono raggiungere la circolarità da sole, ma devono fare affidamento su collaborazioni inter-organizzative. Questo studio, composto di tre parti, approfondisce le attività ed i processi che le imprese implementano per rendere circolari i loro modelli di business ed indaga le dynamic capabilities necessarie.
La prima parte, intitolata “Rethinking dynamic capabilities in light of sustainability: a bibliometric analysis”, esamina la letteratura precedente sulle dynamic capabilities sostenibili. Utilizzando un approccio bibliometrico, abbiamo analizzato 602 articoli dal gennaio 2002 al maggio 2023 per fornire una panoramica dell’evoluzione teorica ed empirica del tema e identificare futuri percorsi di ricerca. I risultati mostrano che il framework delle dynamic capabilities è efficace per comprendere l’integrazione della sostenibilità nelle strategie aziendali, aprendo nuove prospettive, come il coinvolgimento degli stakeholder. In generale, osserviamo un crescente interesse nel riconcettualizzare le dynamic capabilities, con riferimento all’identificazione di nuove micro-foundations ed al livello di analisi. In particolare, abbiamo notato un passaggio dal livello organizzativo a quello inter-organizzativo, comune nella ricerca sull’economia circolare. La ricerca futura dovrebbe esplorare nuovi contesti - come nuove industrie - ed enfatizzare la dimensione sociale della sostenibilità, che ad oggi risulta ancora poco integrata.
La seconda parte, intitolata “The interplay between circular business models and digitalisation: a cross-sectoral analysis”, è un'indagine empirica basata sui rapporti di sostenibilità di 104 aziende incluse nel DJS Index Europe. Utilizzando Leximancer per l’analisi automatizzata dei contenuti, i nostri risultati mostrano che, nonostante l'interesse crescente per l'economia circolare, il legame tra digitalizzazione e circolarità è ancora poco sviluppato nelle grandi aziende europee. Inoltre, attraverso un'analisi settoriale, abbiamo trovato diversi livelli di progresso tra i settori a causa di fattori specifici come l’attività, le strutture, la normativa ed il know-how. Infine, questo articolo identifica la collaborazione tra aziende come fondamentale per creare modelli di business circolari guidati dalla digitalizzazione ed avanza la conoscenza sugli ecosistemi circolari.
La terza parte, intitolata “Resource-based circular economy ecosystem as the locus of circular value creation: the role of a firm acting as a platform”, è uno studio di caso su un'azienda parte di un ecosistema circolare. I nostri risultati identificano che gli ecosistemi circolari sono fondati sulle risorse. Questo attributo offre una caratterizzazione più precisa degli ecosistemi circolari come forma organizzativa radicata nelle risorse (rifiuti e sottoprodotti) che diventano un elemento in grado di influenzare i processi manageriali. In secondo luogo, evidenziamo che gli ecosistemi circolari diventano il locus della creazione di valore circolare (collettivo), estendendo il costrutto del modello di business a un livello supra-organizzativo. Infine, sosteniamo che gli ecosistemi circolari richiedono piattaforme aziendali che favoriscono l'azione imprenditoriale orchestrando gli attori coinvolti e le loro risorse.Due to environmental challenges - such as climate change and resource depletion - circular economy pattern has gained popularity among politicians and businesspeople as a powerful tool for a more sustainable future. For this reason, managerial research has increasingly focused on this topic resulting in a research stream aimed at understanding the transition towards circular business models. This research aims to explore the transition at both an organizational and inter-organizational levels. Indeed, previous literature emphasizes that companies cannot achieve circularity on their own but must rely on inter-organizational collaborations. Specifically, this study seeks to understand the activities and processes firms implement to make their business models circular and to investigate the dynamic capabilities needed. This research is composed of three parts.
The first part, entitled “Rethinking dynamic capabilities in light of sustainability: a bibliometric analysis”, reviews previous literature on sustainable dynamic capabilities. Using a bibliometric approach, we analyzed 602 papers from January 2002 to May 2023 to provide an overview of the theoretical and empirical evolution of the topic and identify future research paths. Results show that the dynamic capabilities framework is effective for understanding the integration of sustainability within business strategies while opening new perspectives, such as stakeholder engagement. Overall, we observe an increasing interest in reconceptualizing dynamic capabilities with reference to the identification of new micro-foundations and the level of analysis. Precisely, we observed a shift from the organizational to inter-organizational level, common in circular economy research. Future research should explore new contexts - such as new industries - and emphasize the understudied social dimension of sustainability.
The second part, entitled “The interplay between circular business models and digitalisation: a cross-sectoral analysis”, is an empirical investigation based on sustainability reports of 104 companies included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Europe. Using Leximancer for automated content analysis, our results show that, despite the growing interest in the circular economy, the link between digitalisation and circularity is still underdeveloped in large European companies. Additionally, through a cross-sectoral analysis, we also found different levels of progress across sectors due to industry-specific factors like activities, structures, regulations, and know-how. Finally, this paper identifies inter-firm collaboration as key to creating digitalisation-driven circular business models and advance knowledge on circular economy ecosystems.
The third part, entitled “Resource-based circular economy ecosystem as the locus of circular value creation: the role of a firm acting as a platform”, is a single case study on a company that created and managed a circular economy ecosystem. Our findings identify a resource-based attribute that offers a more precise characterization of circular economy ecosystems as an organizational form rooted in resources (waste and by-products) that become an element influencing managerial processes. Second, we found that circular economy ecosystems become the locus of (collective) circular value creation, extending the business model construct to a supra-organizational level to identify the business model of the ecosystem as a more appropriate perspective for discussing circular economy. Finally, we assert that circular economy ecosystems require firm-platforms as that foster entrepreneurial action by orchestrating actors and their resources
Sustainable Business Model Innovation and Firm’s Performance: a Multiple Case Study in the Agri-Food Industry
No full textA Non-Financial Disclosure Analysis to explore the Role of Digitalization in Enabling Circular Business Models
No full textRethinking dynamic capabilities in light of sustainability: A bibliometric analysis
Get PDFThe literature on sustainable dynamic capabilities is becoming increasingly relevant in business research. In this study, we adopt a bibliometric approach to analyze the development of the literature, provide an overview of its theoretical and empirical evolution, and identify future research paths. To reach this goal, we collected 602 scientific documents from Scopus published between January 2002 and May 2023. The analysis is based on a two-step process. First, we created and analyzed thematic maps for two different time periods (2002–2016 and 2017–2023) to assess the changes in the themes investigated. Second, we used bibliographic coupling to measure the influence and similarity between 147 scientific documents that were selected from leading scientific journals. Results show the adequacy of the dynamic capabilities framework for understanding the integration of sustainability within business strategies while opening up new perspectives (i.e., stakeholder engagement) and themes. Overall, we observe an increasing interest in reconceptualizing dynamic capabilities while considering their sustainability dimension, with reference to the identification of new micro-foundations and the level of analysis (from an individual or organizational level to an inter-organizational level). This study also proposes avenues for future research, including an exploration of new contexts, such as new industries, through a cross-sectoral analysis approach or the underexplored context of family firms. We also highlight the need to advance our understanding of sustainable dynamic capabilities by focusing on the social dimension, which remains understudied.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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