Orchestration in Mature Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Towards a Circular Economy: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach

IF 12.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI:10.1002/bse.4229

Wisdom Kanda, Magnus Klofsten, Dzamila Bienkowska, David B. Audretsch, Martin Geissdoerfer

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Abstract

The novelty of this article lies in its focus on how mature ecosystems align their members around a new value proposition, specifically supporting circular economy entrepreneurship. We use dynamic capabilities theory to analyse the coordination and collaboration challenges in entrepreneurial ecosystems that seek to support entrepreneurship based on circular economy strategies. Drawing on interviews with 34 ecosystem actors and 70 circular new ventures, as well as three focus group discussions, we identify key challenges that hinder the ecosystem's alignment: (i) a lack of shared understanding of the circular economy concept, (ii) diverse business strategies for circular value creation, (iii) insufficient support tools for circular new ventures and (iv) limited interactions between specialists and generalists. Overcoming these challenges requires ecosystem orchestrators with a holistic perspective, strong legitimacy and the ability to mobilize ecosystem‐level resources. These orchestrators must foster a shared vision (sensing), promote investment in circular expertise (seizing) and adapt the ecosystem to the evolving needs of circular new ventures (reconfiguring). Using the circular economy context, we contribute to ecosystem theory by highlighting the importance of materiality, the emergence of geographically unbound entrepreneurial ecosystems and the role of non‐market exchanges. For practitioners, this article offers actionable insights for reconfiguring mature entrepreneurial ecosystems for new value propositions such as providing support for circular economy entrepreneurs.

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走向循环经济的成熟创业生态系统中的协调：动态能力方法

这篇文章的新颖之处在于它关注成熟的生态系统如何围绕一个新的价值主张使其成员团结起来，特别是支持循环经济创业。我们使用动态能力理论来分析创业生态系统中寻求支持基于循环经济战略的创业的协调和协作挑战。通过对34个生态系统参与者和70个循环新企业的访谈，以及三个焦点小组讨论，我们确定了阻碍生态系统一致性的主要挑战：(i)缺乏对循环经济概念的共同理解，（ii）循环价值创造的多样化商业战略，（iii）循环新企业的支持工具不足以及（iv）专家和通才之间的互动有限。要克服这些挑战，需要生态系统协调者具备整体视角、强大的合法性和调动生态系统层面资源的能力。这些协调者必须培养共同的愿景（感知），促进对循环技术的投资（抓住），并使生态系统适应循环新企业不断变化的需求（重新配置）。在循环经济背景下，我们通过强调物质性的重要性、地理上不受限制的创业生态系统的出现以及非市场交换的作用，为生态系统理论做出了贡献。对于从业者来说，本文为重新配置成熟的创业生态系统提供了可操作的见解，以实现新的价值主张，例如为循环经济企业家提供支持。

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Business Strategy and The Environment Multiple-

CiteScore

22.50

自引率

19.40%

发文量

336

期刊介绍： Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is a leading academic journal focused on business strategies for improving the natural environment. It publishes peer-reviewed research on various topics such as systems and standards, environmental performance, disclosure, eco-innovation, corporate environmental management tools, organizations and management, supply chains, circular economy, governance, green finance, industry sectors, and responses to climate change and other contemporary environmental issues. The journal aims to provide original contributions that enhance the understanding of sustainability in business. Its target audience includes academics, practitioners, business managers, and consultants. However, BSE does not accept papers on corporate social responsibility (CSR), as this topic is covered by its sibling journal Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. The journal is indexed in several databases and collections such as ABI/INFORM Collection, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, BIOBASE, Emerald Management Reviews, GeoArchive, Environment Index, GEOBASE, INSPEC, Technology Collection, and Web of Science.