Building responses to sustainable development challenges: A multistakeholder collaboration framework and application to climate change

Abstract

The affirmation of open innovation and collaborative systems is enabling unprecedented opportunities to create business value while facilitating multistakeholder conversation on sustainability issues. In particular, platform‐based models are emerging as organization archetypes able to facilitate cooperative dynamics among industrial actors, policy makers, academicians, scientists, and citizens. In this article, we use interdisciplinary business management and collaborative innovation literature to build the conceptual framework of a multisided platform as a collaboration environment gathering actors willing to define responses to sustainable development challenges. We present five dimensions or “genes,” that is, the focus and strategic intent or orientation of the platform (what), the participating sides, actors and groups (who), the actions, flows and coordination mechanisms (how), and the value drivers, benefits and externalities (why), and the rules regulating the affiliation and interaction processes (governance). We also present and discuss 30 subtopics or management items that are associated with the five dimensions defined. We then apply the conceptual model to analyze a case in the climate change endeavor and to show how competitive and cooperative dynamics can be virtuously integrated to provide individual‐ and company‐driven responses to a timely socioenvironmental issue. The article provides a new perspective on collaboration to enhance social development, and it offers theoretical and practitioner insights for a broad interdisciplinary audience including scholars, practitioners, business, and platform managers.

Structural model for analysis of key performance indicators for sustainable manufacturer–supplier collaboration: A grey‐decision‐making trial and evaluation laboratory‐based approach

“…This study provides a structural model that is generalizable for evaluation for suppliers for sustainable manufacturer collaboration through the theoretical lens of the relational view. It helps to extend the collaboration among SC partners' stream of research (Elia, Margherita, & Petti, 2020) by reinforcing the fact that the boundaries of manufacturer's firm should be unlocked for suppliers for sustainable supplier-manufacturer collaboration.…”

Influence of the entrepreneur's capacity in business performance

“…Elia et al (2020) show how competitive and cooperative dynamics can be virtuously integrated to provide individual (and company) driven responses to a timely socio‐environmental issue. However, little attention has been paid to the role of the local context from a systemic approach, despite the fact that in recent years some empirical and theoretical studies have been carried out on the entrepreneurial ecosystem (Martínez‐Fierro et al, 2020).…”

“…The theoretical contributions that recognize the positive benefits derived from dynamic capabilities are numerous, since those who focus on the development of new products and processes along with business model innovation will take advantage of them (Schoemaker et al, 2018). Elia et al (2020) show how competitive and cooperative dynamics can be virtuously integrated to provide individual (and company) driven responses to a timely socio-environmental issue. However, little attention has been paid to the role of the local context from a systemic approach, despite the fact that in recent years some empirical and theoretical studies have been carried out on the entrepreneurial ecosystem (Martínez-Fierro et al, 2020).…”

Entrepreneurship Through Open Data: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development

“…Sustainable development initiatives improve these three dimensions, fostering innovation and collaboration between stakeholders of the socio-economic system in order to achieve their main objectives [136][137][138][139]. In addition, we have adapted the Elia et al [140] framework to define responses to sustainable development challenges; then, five dimensions can be analyzed: (1) What (participating sides, actors, and groups), ( 2) who (actions, flows, and coordination mechanisms; (3) how (actions); ( 4) why (value drivers, benefits, and externalities); and ( 5) governance (rules regulating the affiliation and interaction processes). Therefore, studies that analyze the impact of sustainable entrepreneurship through open data can be an interesting new field of research.…”