Henna Sundqvist-Andberg

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the reasons for the difficulties in governing sustainability of plastic food packaging and concluded that the attempts to govern individual sustainability problems as part of circular economy policies create tensions with other sustainability issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of involving different perspectives, stakeholders and using mixed methods during the innovation process and explore what kind of mixed methods create value in circular business model innovation and what kinds of challenges there are related to each method and how is it possible to overcome those challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative interview with suppliers and customers in the Finnish sawn timber value chain was conducted to analyze sawmills' customer orientation, and the authors found that the concept of customer orientation was realized rather narrowly and customer orientation appeared as random actions instead of a systematic part of firms' organization culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically go through the various factors that prevent the implementation and diffusion of new closed-loop solutions and, thus, the transformation towards a circular economy, and identify three system-level lock-ins, the national extended producer responsibility scheme, technoeconomic issues, and tensions in the supply chain, which impede the adoption of innovations and the consequent transformation of the WEEE management system.

TL;DR: It is suggested that foresight games that are balanced between the dimensions of idea generation, informing and experience are well suited to provide insights into the practices and strategy of the players' organisation.