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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 197, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122903
Keywords
Artificial intelligence; Digital transformation; Circular business models; Digital servitization; Sustainability; Circular economy; Ecosystem; Twin transition; Platform
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This study explores the potential of AI in enabling circular business model innovation for industrial manufacturers, identifies the capacities of AI, and reveals the underlying dynamic capabilities. The study contributes to understanding how AI can drive sustainability and circularity in industrial digital servitization.
This study explores the potential of AI to enable circular business model innovation (CBMI) for industrial manufacturers and the corresponding AI capacities and dynamic capabilities required for their commercialization. Employing an analysis of six leading B2B firms engaged in digital servitization, we conceptualize the perceptive, predictive, and prescriptive capacities of AI, which enhance resource efficiency by automating and augmenting data-driven analysis and decision making. We further identify two innovative classes of AI-enabled CBMs - augmentation (e.g., optimization solutions) and automation (e.g., autonomous solutions) business models - and their main circular value drivers. Finally, our research reveals novel dynamic capabilities underpinning the innovation of AI-enabled business models - value discovery, value realization, and value optimization capabilities - which enable manufacturers to make economic and sustainable values come to life in collaborating with customers and ecosystem partners. This study represents an important step in our understanding of how AI can drive circularity and sustainable innovation in industrial digital servitization. Overall, our study contributes to practice and the academic literature on AI, circular business models, and digital servitization by highlighting the potential of AI to empower CBMs for industrial manufacturers and the underlying processes of this digital transformation.
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