18 results on '"Niesten, Eva"'
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2. Innovation intermediaries for university-industry R&D collaboration: evidence from science parks in Thailand.
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Phongthiya, Tinnakorn, Malik, Khaleel, Niesten, Eva, and Anantana, Tanyanuparb
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RESEARCH parks ,PROJECT managers ,BROKERS ,TECHNOLOGY transfer ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,RESEARCH & development - Abstract
This paper investigates how science parks (SPs) act as innovation intermediaries to facilitate university-industry research and development (U-I R&D) collaboration and how the SPs' roles influence the collaboration effectiveness. Data was collected from documents and interviews with 52 participants in 19 collaboration projects across four SPs in northern Thailand. This data is unique because it includes the perspectives of the SPs' project managers as well as those of the university researchers, firm owners and managers in a developing economy context. Our findings show that the SPs performed consulting, brokering, mediating, and providing resource roles and thereby enhanced the attributes of researchers, firms, relationships between partners and collaboration projects, to ultimately improve the success of the collaborations. The SPs in Thailand are not only property-based organisations that provide space and facilities for firms to locate in. It is the SPs' active involvement in the U-I R&D collaboration that contributes to its effectiveness. SPs in a developing economy thus evolve their roles to offer greater support to firms in low-tech industries. We also offer evidence of trade-off effects and show how the SPs' roles and attributes of firms, researchers and relationships can substitute for one another to create effective U-I R&D collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. The Direction of Problemisitic Search: Opening the Black Box with Virtual Reality.
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Jolink, Albert and Niesten, Eva
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In this study we will open the black box of problemistic search by documenting a variety of narrow and broad search strategies individual decisionmakers undertake in a process of a firm's goal attainment. Several commentators have argued that the notions of narrow vs broad search are underspecified and dependent on the ambiguity of the goal and the of environment. This study joins these studies that argue that ambiguities between outcomes, aspirations and decisions will affect the search strategies. In this study we will focus on the question whether ambiguity in goals and outcomes leads to diversity in directions of search strategies. We will explore our contributions with a purpose-built virtual reality (VR) experiment, a research method that opens the possibility to study individual internal sub-processes of problemistic search under conditions which are difficult to control in a non-experimental setting and allows us the development of the data collection for individual problemistic search. Our study responds to the call for research in decision-making in behavioral organizational theory, culminating in a research agenda that further develops VR research for organizations. We will conclude that this study contributes to the behavioral theories of organizations by enriching our understanding of search processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. The Comparative Efficiency of Blockchain Governance – Empirical Evidence on the Fashion Supply Chain.
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Niesten, Eva, Jolink, Albert, and Iyidogan, Engin
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Our research examines how transactions can best be governed by blockchain. We extend transaction cost economics from the analysis of markets, hybrids, and hierarchies to include a discriminating alignment of different types of blockchain governance. We model and visualize the comparative efficiency of public, consortium, and private blockchains. Public blockchains economize on mundane transaction costs, consortium blockchains on transaction costs driven by lawful opportunism, and private blockchains on transaction costs driven by blatant opportunism. We illustrate our model in the empirical context of the use of blockchain in fashion supply chains with the purpose of mitigating hazards from unsustainable practices and counterfeits. Our paper responds to recent calls for more research on blockchains as governance structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Mitigating Uncertainty in Sustainable Business Ecosystems: Ecosystem Strategies of Solar Firms.
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Niesten, Eva, Jolink, Albert, and Pinkse, Jonatan
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A key challenge for firms in sustainable business ecosystems (SBEs) is to create and capture environmental, social, and economic value. Whilst these firms create sustainable value, they operate within contexts of sustainability transitions that are often replete with uncertainty. We conduct a longitudinal study on the ecosystem strategies of utility-scale solar developers and how they adapt their strategies to respond to uncertainty. Our findings show that successful solar firms, those that capture economic value and survive while creating environmental and social value, adopt a bottleneck strategy, which solves solar energy's variability bottleneck, mitigates technological uncertainty, and grows the SBE. Other successful firms use a component strategy by creating ecosystem links with upstream complementors to purchase solar technology, with downstream complementors to sell solar energy, and thereby avoid exposure to and mitigate technological, competitive, and market uncertainty. They continuously reallocate ecosystem resources and create ecosystem links with development banks and communities to cope with regulatory and political uncertainty and deliver social value. Successful firms develop more solar plants and avoid more carbon emissions to deliver environmental value. Unsuccessful firms, those that fail to capture economic value and go bankrupt, adopt a system strategy by taking upstream and downstream ecosystem positions in which they are negatively impacted by competitive, technological, and regulatory uncertainty. Our findings contribute to literature on SBEs by showing how firms cope with uncertainty in sustainability transitions by adapting their ecosystem strategies for greater sustainable value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Motivations for Environmental Alliances: Generating and Internalizing Environmental and Knowledge Value.
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Niesten, Eva and Jolink, Albert
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ENVIRONMENTAL literacy ,MOTIVATION (Psychology) ,TRANSACTION costs ,TRANSACTION cost theory of the firm ,SUSTAINABLE investing - Abstract
Environmental alliances are a common response to societal sustainability demands. In environmental alliances, firms collaboratively exploit and explore environmental technologies to address market opportunities while simultaneously generating positive environmental impacts. A striking idiosyncrasy is that in addition to economic value, environmental alliances generate two types of external value: environmental value from positive effects on air, water, land and biodiversity, and knowledge value from innovations in environmental technologies. Research on motivations for environmental alliances is dispersed and underdeveloped compared to the well‐established literature on motivations for strategic alliances that emphasize economic value. This study therefore develops a classification of motivations for environmental alliances by combining the literature on strategic alliances and that on environmental and knowledge value. The resulting classification includes motivations for environmental alliances to generate environmental and knowledge value as well as motivations to create economic value by internalizing environmental and knowledge value. A systematic review of 123 articles on environmental inter‐firm alliances identifies specific motivations to populate the new classification. We show that alliance partners are motivated to share sustainable resources, reduce sustainability risk, respond to stakeholders or invest in specific sustainable assets to generate external value. They collaborate to reduce costs or enhance competitive advantage, reputation or legitimacy to internalize external value. The resource‐based view, resource‐dependence view, institutional theory and transaction cost economics have not previously distinguished between motivations to generate and internalize external value. We extend their area of application from strategic alliances to environmental alliances, and thus beyond the exclusive pursuit of economic value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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7. Competences for Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review on the Impact of Absorptive Capacity and Capabilities.
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Dzhengiz, Tulin and Niesten, Eva
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SUSTAINABILITY ,ABSORPTIVE capacity (Economics) ,SYSTEMATIC reviews ,SUSTAINABLE development reporting ,MANAGEMENT literature ,STAKEHOLDERS - Abstract
Responsible management competences are the skills of managers to deal with the triple bottom line, stakeholder value and moral dilemmas. In this paper, we analyse how managers develop responsible management competences and how the competences interact with capabilities at the organisational level. The paper contributes to the responsible management literature by integrating research on absorptive capacity and organisational learning. By creating intersections between these disparate research streams, this study enables a better understanding of the development of responsible management competences. The paper is a systematic literature review on environmental competences, which are a type of responsible management competences referring to the managerial skills aimed at improving environmental sustainability. The findings demonstrate that managers who are able to recognize and acquire external knowledge develop environmental competences, and organisations capable of assimilating, transforming and exploiting knowledge develop environmental capabilities. The paper establishes that a dynamic and recursive relation exists between environmental competences and capabilities. Antecedents and contextual conditions specific to a sustainability context, such as eco-centric values and stakeholder pressures, influence the development of environmental competences. The study shows that environmental competences have a positive direct effect on environmental performance, and an indirect effect as a mediator between environmental capabilities and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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8. Embracing the Paradox of Interorganizational Value Co‐creation–Value Capture: A Literature Review towards Paradox Resolution.
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Niesten, Eva and Stefan, Ioana
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INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations ,VALUE creation ,VALUE capture ,META-analysis ,PROBLEM solving - Abstract
This study reviews literature on paradoxical tensions between value co‐creation and capture in interorganizational relationships (IORs). The purpose of this review is to make a re‐evaluation of the literature by engaging a paradox theory lens, thereby identifying factors that render tensions salient and factors that lead to virtuous or vicious cycles. This review of 143 articles reveals factors that make tensions salient; these relate to plurality (e.g. coopetition), scarcity (e.g. lack of experience with IORs), change (e.g. changes in collaboration scope) or combinations thereof (e.g. IORs in weak appropriability regimes). Results also uncover factors that resolve paradoxical tensions of value co‐creation and capture, thus spurring virtuous cycles (e.g. carefully mixing trust and contracts), as well as factors that promote vicious cycles, owing to the emphasis on either value co‐creation or capture (e.g. myopia of learning). This review also uncovers a new category of factors that may stimulate either virtuous or vicious cycles, depending on the extent to which they are enforced. This finding expands the value co‐creation–capture paradox resolution, and brings to light new dynamics in the paradox framework of dynamic equilibrium. The authors thus contribute by: (1) reassessing the existing literature and applying paradox theory to the well‐known hazard of value co‐creation and capture; (2) highlighting factors that amplify paradoxical tensions related to this hazard; and (3) outlining factors that solve the paradox by embracing its contradictory poles and factors that hinder paradox resolution by emphasizing either value co‐creation or appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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9. Identifying Managerial Search Strategies in Virtual Reality.
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Jolink, Albert and Niesten, Eva
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The literature on decision-making by boundedly rational organizations has largely focused on examining triggers and outcomes but has black boxed the middle process of search for solutions to problems. In this study we will unpack the "middle step" of problemistic search using a virtual reality (VR) experiment. Specifically, we will refer to this middle step as managerial search strategies. By building on belief- and aspiration-based models, we demonstrate that improved insights into the specific internal sub-processes of problemistic search help to identify different managerial search strategies. We also examine the adaptation of managerial search strategies in terms of their efficacy and efficiency in ambiguous environments. We test our propositions on managerial search strategies and their adaptation in a purpose-built virtual environment. Depending on the extent of ambiguity, we find that decision-makers adopt three types of strategies: vary-one-thing-at-a-time, vary-all-things-in-opposite-directions, switching-to-other-corners-solutions. When ambiguity increases, decision-makers achieve higher levels of efficacy and efficiency with a search strategy of switching-to-other-corners-solutions. Our study responds to the call for research in decision-making in behavioral organizational theory, culminating in a research agenda that further develops VR research for organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. How network-based incubation helps start-up performance: a systematic review against the background of management theories.
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Eveleens, Chris, Rijnsoever, Frank, and Niesten, Eva
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MANAGEMENT of new business enterprises ,ORGANIZATIONAL performance ,SOCIAL capital ,MANAGEMENT philosophy ,ORGANIZATIONAL learning - Abstract
The literature on how network-based incubation influences the performance of technology-based start-ups has recently grown considerably and provided valuable insights. However, at the same time this literature has become quite fragmented, inconsistently conceptualised, and theoretically underdeveloped. Therefore, this article uses three management theories to structure the literature, improve the theoretical underpinning and develop an agenda for further research. The management theories are the resource-based view, knowledge-based view, organisational learning, and social capital theory. We find that the network-based incubation literature has convincingly shown that network-based incubation provides start-ups with resources, capabilities, knowledge, learning and social capital. However, the influence of these intermediary benefits on start-up performance is ambiguous. There is a considerable opportunity to advance the network-based incubation literature with contemporary insights from management theories. We propose an agenda for further research on network-based incubation that leads to a fine-grained model of the mechanisms and impact of network-based incubation that goes beyond taken for granted assumptions about the positive impact of network-based incubation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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11. The impact of venture capital on governance decisions in collaborations with start-ups.
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Jolink, Albert and Niesten, Eva
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ECONOMIC impact ,VENTURE capital ,NEW business enterprises ,ECONOMIC decision making ,MERGERS & acquisitions ,JOINT ventures - Abstract
This article addresses solutions for contractual hazards in the formation and operation of collaborations with start-ups. We suggest that venture capitalists (VCs) may serve as a mechanism to mitigate contractual hazards and act as a substitute for equity sharing in joint ventures. This article is to our knowledge the first to address the impact of VC on governance decisions for start-ups. We analyse 5405 bilateral collaborations from the SDC database for the period 2009-2014 and find that VC-backed firms are less likely to share equity in collaborations. In a subset of 564 VC-backed firms, start-ups are less likely to choose a joint venture as a governance structure in comparison with established firms. When firms are backed by a larger number of VCs, they are also less likely to share equity in a collaboration. This article improves our understanding of the effect of VC on governance decisions in inter-firm relations and presents evidence of a trade-off between joint venture equity and VC equity in the formation of collaborations. It also shows that this trade-off becomes even more substantial when syndication of VCs is present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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12. The Impact of Alliance Management Capabilities on Alliance Attributes and Performance: A Literature Review.
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Niesten, Eva and Jolink, Albert
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STRATEGIC alliances (Business) ,INFORMATION sharing ,PERFORMANCE evaluation ,INDUSTRIAL management ,ORGANIZATIONAL performance - Abstract
The literature on alliances has identified a variety of inter-firm antecedents of performance, including information and knowledge sharing between partners, shared partner understanding, and a focus on collective objectives. Recent studies have focused on alliance management capabilities (AMC) - firms' abilities to capture, share, store and apply alliance management knowledge - as an important antecedent of performance. This paper reviews 90 studies on AMC and makes two important contributions to the literature. First, the review provides an overview of and classification scheme for the different types of AMC to better organise the diverse empirical findings that have been presented in the literature. The novel classification distinguishes between general and partner-specific AMC and between AMC stored within the firm and within the alliance. Second, consistent with the dynamic capabilities perspective, this paper offers a more detailed understanding of why AMC improve performance, by highlighting the intermediate impact of AMC on alliance attributes. In particular, the review demonstrates how the different categories of AMC influence alliances in terms of information and knowledge-sharing between partners, shared partner understanding and the pursuit of collective goals. The review also demonstrates that these attributes improve performance. The authors note promising avenues for future empirical research that involve combining the classification scheme with research on the impact of AMC on alliance attributes and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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13. Absence of a market in the Dutch balancing mechanism: European rules versus specific investments.
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Niesten, Eva and Jolink, Albert
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TRANSACTION cost theory of the firm ,ELECTRIC utilities ,INVESTMENTS ,INDUSTRIAL equipment ,COST effectiveness ,BREAK-even analysis ,MECHANISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
The European directives for the electricity industry prescribe the creation of a market for balancing electricity supply and demand. In this paper, we demonstrate that a market for balancing has not emerged in the Dutch electricity industry, and that, instead, the balancing transactions are governed by regulated, long-term contracts and a bidding mechanism. We explain the absence of a balancing market by using the framework of transaction cost economics, in which the efficiency of a market decreases with increasing investments in specific assets. The results of a questionnaire among the energy firms that supply balancing power in the Dutch setting show that these firms have invested in specific physical, temporal and dedicated balancing assets. The need for these specific investments to balance supply and demand does not only explain the absence of a market, but also the lack of participation by small firms in the balancing mechanism. We recommend several policies, such as stimulating technological developments for the storage of electricity and demand side management, which reduce these specific investments in balancing assets, and thereby stimulate the creation of a market and the participation of small firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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14. Governance transformations through regulations in the electricity sector: the Dutch case.
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Jolink, Albert and Niesten, Eva
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ELECTRIC industries ,CORPORATE governance ,INDUSTRIAL management ,ELECTRICITY markets ,TRANSACTION cost theory of the firm ,INDUSTRIAL efficiency ,ELECTRIC utilities ,THEORY of the firm ,DUTCH people - Abstract
The liberalization and re-regulation of the European electricity industries have been driven by the European Commission's attempt to create one internal competitive electricity market. The European electricity directives require the vertical separation of the European electricity firms to enable the introduction of market forms of governance. Transaction cost economics argues for the efficiency of vertical integration in this industry on the basis of the attributes of the transactions that are characterized by a great degree of asset-specificity and uncertainty. This paper poses the questions whether regulation has led to the prospected outcome of governance transformations to the market and whether and how the attributes of transactions adapt to the altered forms of governance. We answer these questions by analyzing the empirics of the Dutch electricity industry. We found that the market forms of governance did not emerge, the attributes of the transactions are relatively inert and that regulation at most has led to second-best governance solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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15. REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS AND GOVERNANCE TRANSFORMATIONS IN LIBERALISING ELECTRICITY INDUSTRIES.
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Niesten, Eva
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ELECTRIC industries ,CORPORATE governance ,INDUSTRIAL laws & legislation ,REGULATED industries ,TRADE regulation ,INDUSTRIAL management ,ENERGY industries ,BUSINESS enterprise laws - Abstract
The European liberalising electricity industries are still heavily regulated. A prominent form of regulation is directed at the energy companies' forms of governance. European and national regulations prohibit the vertically integrated structures that characterised these companies for almost a century. Detailed rules on unbundling, independence of the transmission and distribution system operators, and network access influence to a large extent the type of new governance structures that are adopted. This paper takes the institutional organisation of regulation into account to explain the regulatory influence on governance changes at the level of the firm. Examples of the Dutch and French electricity industries illustrate that the new forms of governance are heavily influenced by the institutional organisation of regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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16. Can do or should do: Differential signaling for environmental legitimacy.
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Niesten, Eva and Jolink, Albert
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In this article we address the question how firms differentially select their signaling activity to obtain environmental legitimacy. We will do so by analyzing types of signals, and by distinguishing between firms aiming for environmental regulative legitimacy by signaling compliance to environmental policy and regulations ('can do'), and firms aiming for environmental normative legitimacy by signaling adherence to environmental norms and values ('should do'). The unit of analysis in our study is the environmental inter-firm alliance that has a dual concern for economic value and environmental value. We analyze data on 389 environmental alliances taken from the SDC Platinum database for the period 2013-2017, and combine this with data on signals in 650 press releases on alliance announcements. Our findings show that firms differentially select their signaling activity depending on the alliances' structures and processes. In terms of the structures, we find that joint ventures are more often associated with signaling for regulative legitimacy when compared to contractual alliances. In terms of the processes, we find that environmental exploitation alliances are more likely to signal for regulative legitimacy, while environmental exploration alliances are more likely to signal for normative legitimacy. These findings are explained by the relative importance attached by alliance structures and processes to economic or environmental value in the value spectrum of environmental alliances. Our article combines signaling theory, legitimacy theory and theory on alliances, and makes a contribution at the intersection of these research streams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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17. Environmental Alliances: The Performance Drivers of Creating and Internalizing Externalities.
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Niesten, Eva and Jolink, Albert
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Environmental alliances have increasingly become the corporate response to sustainability demands in society. Firms exploit and explore environmental technologies in environmental alliances to pursue improvements in environmental, business and innovation performance. In comparison with the coherent literature on strategic alliances, the research on inter-firm environmental alliances and their performance remains dispersed. The purpose of this paper is to address the question of what drives the performance of environmental alliances. Based on a systematic literature review and an appraisal of appropriate theoretical perspectives, the paper identifies both established and novel performance drivers. This paper shows that new instantiations of familiar drivers exist in environmental alliances, but to fully understand the specificities of environmental alliances, theoretical extensions are required to account for environmental and knowledge externalities (i.e. the positive external effects due to investments in environmental sustainability and eco-innovation). These extensions rely on an integration of the management literature on alliances with insights on externalities from environmental economics and innovation economics. The results show that environmental alliances enable firms to capture public value in two stages: by creating knowledge and environmental externalities (i.e. 'double' externalities) and by internalizing environmental externalities. Environmental alliances create double externalities by developing new rules, standards and legitimacy for eco-innovations, and they internalize environmental externalities by reusing waste of partners, sharing sustainable practices and reducing sustainability risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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18. Embracing the Paradox of Inter-organisational Value Creation-Value Capture: A Literature Review.
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Niesten, Eva and Stefan, Ioana
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Successfully managing paradoxical tensions related to inter-organisational value creation and value capture is crucial, as more and more organisations rely on external knowledge as a source of competitive advantage. However, extant literature provides no framework for resolving such tensions. The purpose of this review is to make a re-evaluation of the value creation - value capture literature by engaging a paradox theory lens (Smith and Lewis, 2011), thereby identifying factors that render tensions salient and factors that lead to virtuous or vicious cycles. We contribute by: 1) re-assessing existing literature and applying paradox theory to the well-known hazard of value creation and capture; 2) highlighting factors that amplify paradoxical tensions related to this hazard; and 3) outlining factors that solve the paradox by embracing its contradictory poles and factors that hinder paradox resolution by emphasizing either value creation or appropriation. Our review also uncovers a new category of factors that may stimulate either virtuous or vicious cycles, depending on the extent to which they are enforced. This finding expands the value creation-capture paradox resolution, and brings to light new dynamics in the paradox framework of dynamic equilibrium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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