Pub Date : 2026-03-12DOI: 10.1177/00081256251408430
Arash Rezazadeh, Cláudia Antunes Marante, René Bohnsack
Positive energy districts (PEDs) address the energy issues of unsustainable urban development by producing more renewable energy than they consume. However, the transformation of PEDs face challenges that require the application of new technologies. This article focuses on the role of digital twins and generative AI to explore how these technologies can support the development of PEDs in line with circular economic principles. Based on a case study of an EU Horizon R&D project, this article develops a framework for implementing generative AI-assisted digital twins for PEDs and provides decision support for their integration into 9R circular economic strategies.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1177/00081256251410938
Boyd Cohen, Jan Kietzmann, Mark Esposito, Andrew Park
This special issue focuses on cities as accelerators of circular, regenerative innovation. Cities, which account for over 70% of global energy use, serve as living labs where experiments across numerous problem domains such as food, energy, construction, and waste can contribute to global climate management efforts. The circular economy enables a transition from take-make-waste logic toward circular regenerative practice—but such a paradigm shift necessitates novel technological solutions and new policy approaches from governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and civilians. These articles highlight how organizational and entrepreneurial innovations can encourage urban stakeholders to incorporate circular, regenerative, and restorative strategies for systems-level transformation.
{"title":"Circular Cities: Transforming Systems through Organizational Innovation","authors":"Boyd Cohen, Jan Kietzmann, Mark Esposito, Andrew Park","doi":"10.1177/00081256251410938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256251410938","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue focuses on cities as accelerators of circular, regenerative innovation. Cities, which account for over 70% of global energy use, serve as living labs where experiments across numerous problem domains such as food, energy, construction, and waste can contribute to global climate management efforts. The circular economy enables a transition from take-make-waste logic toward circular regenerative practice—but such a paradigm shift necessitates novel technological solutions and new policy approaches from governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and civilians. These articles highlight how organizational and entrepreneurial innovations can encourage urban stakeholders to incorporate circular, regenerative, and restorative strategies for systems-level transformation.","PeriodicalId":9605,"journal":{"name":"California Management Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146215763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1177/00081256251408087
Belinda Wade, Sarah MacInnes, Matthew J. Hornsey, Saphira Rekker, Andrew Griffiths
This paper critically examines the use of climate-related scenario planning in organizations. Scenario planning is a crucial tool for managing climate risk, strategic development, and organizational learning. However, these benefits can be compromised by low-quality processes and inconsistencies in methods and data. Examination of corporate reporting from 24 major Australian companies reveals significant variability in scenario quality and transparency of scenario planning processes, with implications for stakeholder communication, risk management, and greenwashing. We provide practical recommendations for improving the use of scenario planning to better meet evolving corporate management standards, regulatory reporting requirements, and stakeholder expectations.
{"title":"Beyond Box-Ticking: Improving Climate Scenario Planning","authors":"Belinda Wade, Sarah MacInnes, Matthew J. Hornsey, Saphira Rekker, Andrew Griffiths","doi":"10.1177/00081256251408087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256251408087","url":null,"abstract":"This paper critically examines the use of climate-related scenario planning in organizations. Scenario planning is a crucial tool for managing climate risk, strategic development, and organizational learning. However, these benefits can be compromised by low-quality processes and inconsistencies in methods and data. Examination of corporate reporting from 24 major Australian companies reveals significant variability in scenario quality and transparency of scenario planning processes, with implications for stakeholder communication, risk management, and greenwashing. We provide practical recommendations for improving the use of scenario planning to better meet evolving corporate management standards, regulatory reporting requirements, and stakeholder expectations.","PeriodicalId":9605,"journal":{"name":"California Management Review","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146032788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1177/00081256251408429
Nikhilesh Sinha, Satrupa Ghosh, Shilpi Banerjee
London’s circular fashion startups are reshaping the industry while struggling to integrate with the city’s broader sustainability goals. Through three innovative businesses, a clothing swap platform, a repair-and-remake retailer, and a rental service, the article uncovers the dissonance between startup innovation and urban infrastructure. While these companies create impressive circular models at the enterprise level, their impact remains constrained by fragmented city systems. This article offers practical strategies for entrepreneurs to position their businesses within London’s urban metabolism, creating value for both shareholders and the city. For policymakers, it outlines key interventions to bridge this gap and accelerate London’s transition to a truly circular ecosystem.
{"title":"Weaving Urban Circularity: The Role of Fashion Startups","authors":"Nikhilesh Sinha, Satrupa Ghosh, Shilpi Banerjee","doi":"10.1177/00081256251408429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256251408429","url":null,"abstract":"London’s circular fashion startups are reshaping the industry while struggling to integrate with the city’s broader sustainability goals. Through three innovative businesses, a clothing swap platform, a repair-and-remake retailer, and a rental service, the article uncovers the dissonance between startup innovation and urban infrastructure. While these companies create impressive circular models at the enterprise level, their impact remains constrained by fragmented city systems. This article offers practical strategies for entrepreneurs to position their businesses within London’s urban metabolism, creating value for both shareholders and the city. For policymakers, it outlines key interventions to bridge this gap and accelerate London’s transition to a truly circular ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":9605,"journal":{"name":"California Management Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146006108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1177/00081256251392919
Shardul S. Phadnis, Suzanne Mooney, Sarah Grasset
Supply chains are vital units of analysis of the circular economy (CE), and network orchestrators are central to fostering the CE’s essential interorganizational collaboration. However, orchestration mechanisms remain poorly understood. We explore supply chain orchestration (SCO) as an innovative business model to promote CE. Our analysis of The Lost Food Project—an eco-food bank that rescues surplus food to address hunger in Greater Kuala Lumpur—suggests the need to adapt SCO for circularity (as SCO-C). We highlight the challenges that arise when organizations focus on SCO-C: capturing the value of environmental and social profits, the necessity of supportive public policies, and plausible unintended consequences.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1177/00081256251403318
David Vogel
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Pub Date : 2025-12-10DOI: 10.1177/00081256251374721
Patricia Carolina Garcia Martin, Nikolina Koporcic, David Sjödin, Vinit Parida
Scaling is both the main goal and the ultimate challenge for industrial small tech firms (STFs). This is particularly true when firms offer complex and innovative digital solutions for industrial applications. We delineate scaling strategies deployed by STFs, uncovering the underlying configuration of activities driving the scaling process. Specifically, the study reveals a distinctive sequence, where scaling evolves from a common phase of systematic digital solution piloting, into two distinctive strategies called ecosystem scaling (i.e., solution market evaluation, ecosystem development, and horizontal partner-led scaling activities) and servitization scaling (i.e., customer insights mining, service operations development, and vertical customer-led scaling activities).
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1177/00081256251380360
Leona Henry, Francesca Ciulli
Data sharing across organizational boundaries has become increasingly important for advancing the transition to circular cities. To establish a structured data-sharing effort among different actors, collaboration in cross-sector partnerships is needed. However, these partnerships face specific challenges, especially regarding the governance of data sharing. Through a qualitative analysis of cross-sector partnerships formed around the development of the Digital Product Passport, we uncover the tensions associated with collaborative data-sharing governance in the context of circular cities. We also offer guidance to actors involved in urban transitions to the circular economy on how to address these tensions.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1177/00081256251389971
Chenshuo Sun
Are voice assistants a gimmick or a growth engine? When shopping behavior was compared between customers who adopted a Tmall Genie smart speaker into their homes and those who didn’t, the study showed growth. The voice AI assistant expanded share of wallet, deepened loyalty, and boosted customer lifetime value. Retailers must operationalize it with discipline to capture durable, incremental growth.
{"title":"Speak and Spend: When Voice AI Pays Off in E-Commerce","authors":"Chenshuo Sun","doi":"10.1177/00081256251389971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256251389971","url":null,"abstract":"Are voice assistants a gimmick or a growth engine? When shopping behavior was compared between customers who adopted a Tmall Genie smart speaker into their homes and those who didn’t, the study showed growth. The voice AI assistant expanded share of wallet, deepened loyalty, and boosted customer lifetime value. Retailers must operationalize it with discipline to capture durable, incremental growth.","PeriodicalId":9605,"journal":{"name":"California Management Review","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1177/00081256251383844
Medhanie Gaim, Elie Saad, Sujith Nair
Startup-corporate partnerships provide mutual benefits by combining startups’ innovation with established firms’ resources and processes. However, despite these clear advantages, initiating and nurturing such partnerships is often fraught with obstacles. Our research provides evidence-based insights for startup founders and corporate managers on how these partnerships unfold. Specifically, we identify two distinct pathways that can serve as a practical starting point for corporate managers. Also, we pinpoint three key “pathbreakers” in the formation process and offer strategies to effectively manage them. In addition, the article highlights the cumulative signals that both parties can use not only to create the potential for partnership but to bring the collaboration to fruition. This guidance to managers seeking to establish or engage in such partnerships includes outlining key factors to consider, potential challenges that may arise, and actionable strategies to address them.
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