Decline is naturally part of the evolution of entities at different levels: industries, technologies, companies, resources. Researchers and practitioners have defined regrowth paths through BPR, change management, turnarounds, resizing, post-death organizing, brownfield redevelopment. No-one of these research fields simultaneously considers a systemic, ex ante and strategic perspective to leverage as-is obsolete resources as new valuable opportunities. The not new issue of managing resources at the end of their life, is nowadays gaining relevance. Amplified, among others, by new macroeconomic trends, the emergence of values, habits, regulations linked to sustainability, CE and open innovation, the problem of managing not anymore strategic resources has lately become more complex. Indeed, increased dynamism, enlargement of dimensions of analysis and the involvement of numerous stakeholders, requires the study and adoption of sustainable systemic approaches. This research aims at studying strategic approaches companies are taking during and after the dismissing of industrial plants. Strategies are analyzed though systemic perspective, companies’ point of view and merging RBV and Institutional theory. Results demonstrate that previously key resources becoming obsolete mainly because of external causes, can be leveraged as opportunities and reused. Moreover, a list of TBL shaped impacts and conditioning factors that should be considered during the definition of strategies in dismissing is proposed. Mapping strategies, impacts and factors defined by companies to sustainably manage declining phases of industrial sites, merging theories and keeping multi-stakeholder and systemic perspectives is a small tile with numerous theoretical and practical implications to be further studied in future research.
La fase di declino è parte della naturale evoluzione di settori industriali, tecnologie, organizzazioni, risorse. Numerosi studiosi ed esperti hanno definito percorsi di ricrescita, attuabili attraverso BPR, processi di change management, ridimensionamento, post-death organizing e rigenerazione ex-post di siti industriali abbandonati. Nessuno di tali approcci adotta simultaneamente una prospettiva sistemica, ex-ante e strategica, che permetta di vedere le nuove opportunità insite in risorse ritenute obsolete. Il problema della gestione delle risorse a fine vita sta ora assumendo maggiore rilevanza. Amplificata, tra gli altri, dalla presenza di specifici trend macroeconomici, di valori, abitudini e norme legate alla sostenibilità e a nuovi paradigmi, la gestione delle risorse non più strategiche è diventata più complessa. Pertanto, un intenso dinamismo, una maggiore dimensione d’analisi ed il coinvolgimento di numerosi stakeholders richiedono che nuovi approcci sistemici e sostenibili vengano adottati e analizzati. Questo lavoro di tesi mira a studiare le strategie che alcune aziende implementano durante e dopo la fase di dismissione di siti industriali. Le strategie sono analizzate con una prospettiva di sistema, dal punto di vista dell’organizzazione e considerando simultaneamente contributi dalle teorie Institutional e Resource-Based. I risultati illustrano come risorse chiave, diventate obsolete principalmente per cause esterne, possano diventare opportunità da riutilizzare. Inoltre, sono stati definiti gli impatti (declinati attraverso il modello TBL) e i fattori abilitanti che dovrebbero essere considerati durante la definizione delle specifiche strategie. Mappare strategie, impatti e fattori definiti per gestire in modo sostenibile la fase di declino di un sito industriale, adottando diversi approcci teorici, prospettive multi-stakeholder e di sistema, è un piccolo tassello con numerose implicazioni teoriche e pratiche, da approfondire in ricerche future.
Strategic sustainable approaches during and after the dismissing of industrial plants : a case study-based analysis
PIANTONI, GIULIA
2015/2016
Abstract
Decline is naturally part of the evolution of entities at different levels: industries, technologies, companies, resources. Researchers and practitioners have defined regrowth paths through BPR, change management, turnarounds, resizing, post-death organizing, brownfield redevelopment. No-one of these research fields simultaneously considers a systemic, ex ante and strategic perspective to leverage as-is obsolete resources as new valuable opportunities. The not new issue of managing resources at the end of their life, is nowadays gaining relevance. Amplified, among others, by new macroeconomic trends, the emergence of values, habits, regulations linked to sustainability, CE and open innovation, the problem of managing not anymore strategic resources has lately become more complex. Indeed, increased dynamism, enlargement of dimensions of analysis and the involvement of numerous stakeholders, requires the study and adoption of sustainable systemic approaches. This research aims at studying strategic approaches companies are taking during and after the dismissing of industrial plants. Strategies are analyzed though systemic perspective, companies’ point of view and merging RBV and Institutional theory. Results demonstrate that previously key resources becoming obsolete mainly because of external causes, can be leveraged as opportunities and reused. Moreover, a list of TBL shaped impacts and conditioning factors that should be considered during the definition of strategies in dismissing is proposed. Mapping strategies, impacts and factors defined by companies to sustainably manage declining phases of industrial sites, merging theories and keeping multi-stakeholder and systemic perspectives is a small tile with numerous theoretical and practical implications to be further studied in future research.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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