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Platform Thinking as a Catalyst for Circular Innovation in Low‐ and Medium‐Tech Industries
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing pressures to replace linear with circular models challenge organisations to innovate continuously and to absorb new knowledge. While platform thinking has been examined as an enabler of innovation in high‐tech industries, its relevance in low‐ and medium‐tech industries, like construction, remains underexplored.
Julia Köhler +3 more
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Built HeritageThis paper explores the creation, development, and dissemination of prefabricated concrete rural houses in Jiangsu Province in East China from 1961 to the 1980s, an example of the technological transition provoked by the depletion of forest and timber in
Yichuan Chen
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Buildings, 2023 The study presents a possible innovative use of cement fiber boards (CFBs) reinforced with cellulose fibers for construction of an interior prefabricated staircase.
Ondřej Nespěšný +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The valorization of construction and demolition timber is essential to advancing circular economy objectives but remains constrained by fragmented organizational, network, and institutional practices. For firms in the construction sector, this represents a critical strategic adaptation challenge.
Reeko Watanabe +6 more
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Ain Shams Engineering JournalIn 2019, a pandemic changed aspects of people's daily lives. The importance of this article is the welfare of residents in emergency situations such as epidemics.
Negin Momen-Kashani, Mohammad Ghomeishi
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Circular Innovations in Complex Systems: A Blueprint of Four Design Archetypes
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular innovations (CI), defined as the redesign of products, services or practices to minimise waste, reduce resource use and regenerate natural systems, are essential for advancing the circular economy. Despite growing recognition, their deployment in systems of linked parts with unpredictable interactions (complex systems) remains limited
Sophie Führer +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular innovation (CI) research has identified a wide range of circular strategies and design approaches, yet offers limited insight into how CI evolves as a learning process within firms and which governance mechanisms guide this progression. Drawing on organizational learning (OL), this study examines how exploration and exploitation shape
Shamima Haque +2 more
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ACCELERATING LOW-COST HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN INDONESIA: LESSON LEARNED FROM KAMPONG NAGA
Dimensi: Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, 2017 Construction methods used in housing development in Indonesia cannot follow the raise in housing needs. Thus, Indonesia is facing a housing backlog up to millions of houses.
Dewi Larasati Z.R. +2 more
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Maekawa Kunio: Prefabrication and Wooden Modernism 1945-1951
Dearq, 2018 This paper examines the Japanese architect Maekawa Kunio’s works and practices during the years immediately after the end of WWII. As an acclaimed advocate of modernism and in the face of the devastation in the wake of the war, Maekawa embarked on a ...
Takaaki Kumagai
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The 194x House: Economy, Efficiency, and Prefabrication
UF Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2022 The Second World War transformed Florida residential architecture in the 1940s through the development of new technologies: prefabrication, material innovations, increased industrial production, innovations in lighting, and improvement in thermal comfort design.
Sarah Gurevitch, Vandana Baweja
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