Article: Characteristics of industrial service ecosystem practices for industrial renewal Journal: International Journal of Services Technology and Management (IJSTM) 2024 Vol.29 No.1 pp.76 - 96 Abstract: The emergence of service ecosystems can accelerate the industrial renewal required because of urgent global challenges. However, existing research has not sufficiently grasped the social dynamics of coevolution in ecosystems that enhance industrial renewal. This study aimed to advance ecosystem research through a practice lens and to present the key characteristics of industrial service ecosystem practice involved in industrial renewal. Consequently, its three characteristics - accomplishment, attractiveness and actionability - were configured based on an abductive study derived from the ecosystem literature, three practice-oriented approaches to learning, and two case ecosystem examinations. These features created the logic for resource integration and enhanced ecosystems to evolve as units, thus exceeding the actors' independent avenues of renewal. The findings of this study provided a deeper understanding of the coevolution in ecosystems needed to accelerate industrial renewal as well as a novel conceptualisation of an ecosystem-as-practice for further studies. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Characteristics of industrial service ecosystem practices for industrial renewal

Authors: Maaria Nuutinen; Katri Valkokari; Maarit Halttunen; Katariina Palomäki

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Abstract: The emergence of service ecosystems can accelerate the industrial renewal required because of urgent global challenges. However, existing research has not sufficiently grasped the social dynamics of coevolution in ecosystems that enhance industrial renewal. This study aimed to advance ecosystem research through a practice lens and to present the key characteristics of industrial service ecosystem practice involved in industrial renewal. Consequently, its three characteristics - accomplishment, attractiveness and actionability - were configured based on an abductive study derived from the ecosystem literature, three practice-oriented approaches to learning, and two case ecosystem examinations. These features created the logic for resource integration and enhanced ecosystems to evolve as units, thus exceeding the actors' independent avenues of renewal. The findings of this study provided a deeper understanding of the coevolution in ecosystems needed to accelerate industrial renewal as well as a novel conceptualisation of an ecosystem-as-practice for further studies.

Keywords: service ecosystem; industrial renewal; social dynamics; coevolution; ecosystem-as-practice; forest industry; construction industry; case study; sustainability; learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSTM.2024.138259

International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 2024 Vol.29 No.1, pp.76 - 96

Received: 14 Mar 2023
Accepted: 02 Jan 2024
Published online: 30 Apr 2024 *

Title: Characteristics of industrial service ecosystem practices for industrial renewal

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