Bringing ecosystem thinking to sustainability-driven wooden construction business

Viholainen, Noora; Kylkilahti, Eliisa; Autio, Minna; Pöyhönen, Juho; Toppinen, Anne

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126029

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“…Small scale actors often have limited resources to uptake new technologies and acquire new skills. Possibilities to start to use new building systems and change business logics may be supported through collaboration activities (Brege et al 2014), which enhance accumulation of special expertise and knowledge to build with wood also in as a part of project-driven business ecosystems (Viholainen et al 2021a;Lähtinen et al 2022).…”

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Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Jussila¹,

Nagy²,

Lähtinen³

et al. 2022

Silva Fenn.

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Climate change sets high pressures on the construction industry to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the carbon storage properties and potential to use renewable resources efficiently, wooden multi-storey construction (WMC) is an interesting alternative for the construction industry to enhance sustainable development combined with the aesthetic and well-being benefits of wood perceived among many consumers. For forest industry firms, industrial wood construction is a possibility to seek for business opportunities and bring socio-economic benefits for local economies. Despite positive drivers, WMC still remains a niche even in the forest-rich countries.The purpose of our study is to add understanding on the WMC market development by conducting a systematic literature analysis on international peer-reviewed studies from the past 20 years. Our special focus is on the role of WMC in the housing markets studied from the perspectives of the demand, supply and local governance factors. As specific aims, we 1) synthesize the key barriers and enabling factors for the WMC market growth; 2) identify the actors addressed in the existing studies connected to the WMC market development, and 3) summarize research methods and analytical approaches used in the previous studies. As a systematic method to make literature searches in Web of Science and Scopus for years 2000â2020, we employed PRISMA guidelines. By using pre-determined keywords, our searches resulted in a sample of 696 articles, of which 42 full articles were after selection procedure included in-depth content analysis. Our results showed cost-efficiency gains from industrialized prefabrication and perceived sustainability benefits by consumers and architects enabled a WMC market diffusion. The lack of experiences on the WMC, and path dependencies to use concrete and steel continue to be key barriers for increased WMC. Although our research scope was the global WMC market development, most of the literature concerned the Nordic region. The key actors covered in the literature were businesses (e.g., contractors, manufacturers and architects) involved in the wood construction value-chains, while residents and actors in the local governance were seldomly addressed. Currently, case studies, the use of qualitative data sets and focus on the Nordic region dominate the literature. This hinders the generalizability of findings in different regional contexts. In the future, more research is needed on how sustainability-driven wood construction value-chains are successfully shaping up in different geographical regions, and how they could challenge the dominant concrete-based construction regime.

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Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Jussila¹,

Nagy²,

Lähtinen³

et al. 2022

Silva Fenn.

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“…The sustainability of the ecosystem structure can be evaluated, and members or technologies can be reduced to a limited extent to maintain the ecosystem's robustness [35]. In terms of robustness, it is essential to establish long-term trusting, collaborative relationships in the ecosystem.…”

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The Key Success Factors for the Operation of SME Cluster Business Ecosystem

Chen

Huang

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With the emphasis on cross-industry cooperation and the increasing complexity of the consumer market, an open and innovative business ecosystem has become a trend, and companies are no longer competing on their own, but rather between systems and systems. This study explores the development of SME cluster operations from a business ecosystem perspective. It summarizes the influencing dimensions and relevant factors of SME cluster ecosystem operation through literature research and expert interviews. We utilize the Fuzzy DEMATEL method and Interpretive Structural Model and classified by classification of matrix multiplication method. At the same time, this study figures out the factors’ correlation and characteristics and further develops their management implications to provide a reference for enterprises and subsequent research. The results reveal that robustness and niche creation with significant influence and low dependence are considered critical factors to influence other factors. Therefore, decision-makers should consider prioritizing control over factors in this category.

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“…These holistic benefits expose a tension between municipalities and the construction industries. Where municipalities saw wooden multistory construction as a means improve the lifestyle of citizens beyond current market standards (see: Figure 4, lifestyle and technology grouping), the construction industry is typically described as having limited interest to incorporating end-users into their value-chains (Riala and Ilolla, 2014;Toppinen et al, 2019a;Viholainen et al, 2020b). If tensions represent windows of opportunity where wider technological diffusion is achievable (Geels, 2002(Geels, : pg.…”

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“…There is an opportunity to improve the lifestyle of end-users through wooden multistory construction. Harnessing these benefits may require re-conceptualizing wooden construction businesses models to better incorporate end-users (see: Brege et al, 2014;Toppinen et al, 2018b;Viholainen, 2020b). Considering that a strong wood construction actor-network has yet to develop in Finland (Lazarevic et al, 2020), such reconceptualization should be possible because the structuration of activities is less developed among these actors (Geels, 2004).…”

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“…In this sense, the users and producers are in a tightly aligned relationship sharing similar rules (e.g., priorities). Yet, consumers are given little leeway to impact frame material selection, and neither concrete-nor wood-construction industry value chains place emphasis on incorporating end users into their value networks (Riala and Ilolla, 2014;Toppinen et al, 2019a;Viholainen et al, 2020b). Arguably, this emphasizes the priorities found meaningful by construction value chain actors over the creation of new priorities guided by consumer preferences.…”

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Wooden multistory construction as perceived by Finland’s municipal civil servants overseeing land use planning

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Bringing ecosystem thinking to sustainability-driven wooden construction business

Cited by 36 publications

References 59 publications

Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

Wooden multi-storey construction market development – systematic literature review within a global scope with insights on the Nordic region

The Key Success Factors for the Operation of SME Cluster Business Ecosystem

Wooden multistory construction as perceived by Finland’s municipal civil servants overseeing land use planning

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