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Adapting to sustainability : Reorchestrating collective eco-innovation in project-based shipbuilding networks
Authors: Haaja, Eini; Evers, Natasha
Publisher: Elsevier
Publishing place: NEW YORK
Publication year: 2025
Journal: Industrial Marketing Management
Journal name in source: Industrial Marketing Management
Journal acronym: IND MARKET MANAG
Volume: 128
First page : 117
Last page: 130
Number of pages: 14
ISSN: 0019-8501
eISSN: 1873-2062
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.06.006
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.06.006
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499239842
Adapting a business network to mitigate climate change builds on the collective creation of eco-innovations. This qualitative case study explores the reorchestration of an established supplier network toward an eco-innovation net in the project-based shipbuilding industry. Focusing on the network's orchestration adaptation needs and challenges, we identify reorchestration mechanisms and their respective orientation dimensions, and unveil the multifaceted challenges confronted by a network actor attempting to reorchestrate its surrounding network for collective eco-innovation. This study contributes to the literature on network orchestration by revealing the complexity of steering an existing project-based business network to collectively advance its environmental sustainability. It also offers empirical insights into the generation of strategic nets for collective innovation. Moreover, it identifies avenues for future research on reorchestrating eco-innovation in project-based industry networks and offers managerial recommendations for actors attempting to adapt their interactions and others' for sustainability advancement.
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This work at the University of Turku was financially supported by research funding from Business Finland (SusCon project) and the Foundation for Economic Education (MUUTOS project) . The providers of this support had no role in the conduct of the research and in the preparation of the article, whereby we have no competing interests to declare. We would like to sincerely thank the three reviewers of the paper. The authors also wish to express their gratitude for the valuable comments received from the three reviewers of the paper at the 38th Annual IMP Conference at the University of Florence in Italy for developing the study,hik8ujimbh and for the conceptual insights received from distinguished IMP scholars during the review process.
