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Orchestrating cradle-to-cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation
Journal of Industrial Ecology ( IF 5.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 , DOI: 10.1111/jiec.13081
Erik G. Hansen 1 , Julia C. Schmitt 1
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The circular economy (CE) aims at cycling products and materials in closed technical and biological loops. Cradle to cradle (C2C) operationalizes the CE with a product design concept rooted in the circulation of “healthy” materials because contamination of materials with substances of concern hampers cycling and may pose risks to people in contact with them. Extant research shows that barriers often hinder organizations from successfully pursuing cradle-to-cradle product innovation (CPI). Innovation community theory helps to explain how to overcome barriers and further the innovation process by taking a microlevel perspective on intra- and interorganizational collaboration of individual promotors (or champions). We elaborate innovation community theory with a longitudinal embedded case study of a C2C frontrunner company with the goal to get a precise understanding of how promotors collaborate in the CPI process. Our contribution is threefold: We identify eight collaboration mechanisms used between promotors to sequentially overcome a hub firm's individual, organizational, value chain, and institutional level barriers to circularity. Second, we differentiate these mechanisms according to their cooperative and coordinative facets and put emphasis on the coordinative functions of those mechanisms linked to the C2C standard. Third, we highlight the importance of promotors at the linking level who facilitate the CPI process as intermediaries.

中文翻译:

在整个价值链中协调从摇篮到摇篮的创新:通过创新社区、协作机制和中介克服障碍

循环经济 (CE) 旨在在封闭的技术和生物循环中循环产品和材料。从摇篮到摇篮 (C2C) 以植根于“健康”材料流通的产品设计理念实施 CE,因为材料被关注物质污染会阻碍循环,并可能对与之接触的人构成风险。现有研究表明,障碍往往会阻碍组织成功地追求从摇篮到摇篮的产品创新 (CPI)。创新社区理论有助于解释如何通过对个人发起人(或拥护者)的组织内和组织间合作的微观视角来解释如何克服障碍并进一步推进创新过程。我们通过对 C2C 领跑者公司的纵向嵌入式案例研究阐述了创新社区理论,目的是准确了解发起人如何在 CPI 过程中进行协作。我们的贡献有三方面:我们确定了发起人之间使用的八种协作机制,以依次克服中心公司的个人、组织、价值链和机构层面的循环障碍。其次,我们根据它们的合作和协调方面来区分这些机制,并强调与 C2C 标准相关联的这些机制的协调功能。第三,我们强调了促进 CPI 过程作为中介的链接级别的发起人的重要性。我们确定了发起人之间使用的八种协作机制,以依次克服中心公司的个人、组织、价值链和机构层面的循环障碍。其次,我们根据它们的合作和协调方面来区分这些机制,并强调与 C2C 标准相关联的这些机制的协调功能。第三,我们强调了促进 CPI 过程作为中介的链接级别的发起人的重要性。我们确定了发起人之间使用的八种协作机制,以依次克服中心公司的个人、组织、价值链和机构层面的循环障碍。其次,我们根据它们的合作和协调方面来区分这些机制,并强调与 C2C 标准相关联的这些机制的协调功能。第三,我们强调了促进 CPI 过程作为中介的链接级别的发起人的重要性。我们根据它们的合作和协调方面来区分这些机制,并强调与 C2C 标准相关的这些机制的协调功能。第三,我们强调了促进 CPI 过程作为中介的链接级别的发起人的重要性。我们根据它们的合作和协调方面来区分这些机制,并强调与 C2C 标准相关的这些机制的协调功能。第三,我们强调了促进 CPI 过程作为中介的链接级别的发起人的重要性。
更新日期:2020-11-10
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