Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages 2663-2676Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.009
Keywords
Experimentation; Triple bottom line value creation; Urgency; Circular economy; Sustainable business model; Business model innovation
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Funding
- Climate-KIC [1292/2013]
- EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability [EP/I033351/1]
- Innovate UK competition 'Supply Chain Innovation towards a Circular Economy' (IUK) [101902]
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This research paper shows how a firm pursues innovation activities for economic, social and environmental value creation in the context of time sensitivity. We make a conceptual link between lean startup thinking, triple bottom line value creation, and organizational capabilities. The case study firm uses a novel experimentation approach to pursue the goal of diverting all of its sold clothing from landfill through a two-year project. This requires substantial changes to the current business practice because in 2012, the clothing retailer recovered 1% of all garments sold. The fibre input value for all garments sold in 2012 exceeded $7m. We found that despite a stated need for fast learning through project experiments, the experiments were not executed quickly. (1) The desire to plan project activities and the lack of lean startup approach expertise across the whole project team hampered fast action. This led to the extension of the project timeline. However, project team confidence about learning by doing increased through privately executed experiments. (2) Some project experiments were not fit to meet the triple bottom value creation project goal and were dropped from the project. Overall, the corporate mindset of economic value creation still dominated. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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