Collaborative Innovation and Stakeholder Engagement in the Transition to a Circular Economy: Evidence from the Construction Industry

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This dissertation makes a comprehensive contribution to promoting CE in building construction and highlights the crucial roles of stakeholders, networks and political players.
This dissertation focuses on the role of collaborative innovation and stakeholder engagement in the transition to a circular economy in the German construction industry in two consecutive studies. The first study addresses the question of how collaboration can support innovation for the transition to a circular construction industry. The study highlights the importance of a systemic understanding of innovation and shows that leaders in the construction industry need to adopt a more holistic approach to the circular economy, emphasising bottom-up approaches to promote change at the management level. The second study builds on this and provides an in-depth understanding of the potential impact of inter-organisational networks on the industry’s circular economy transition based on seven typologies of inter-organisational networks that operate at different levels. The findings present a potential and necessary avenue for collaboration in the project-oriented construction industry. This dissertation makes a comprehensive contribution to promoting the circular economy in building construction and highlights the crucial roles of stakeholders, networks and political players. The study not only identifies practical challenges and potential but also offers concrete suggestions for implementation and further research. It provides guidelines for players in the construction industry on how to set up a collaborative innovation process, build inter-organisational networks and engage the right stakeholders.

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Johanna C. Zeller
Johanna C. Zeller studierte Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen mit Fachrichtung Bauingenieurwesen an der RWTH Aachen und promovierte an der Technischen Universität Hamburg am Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement. Der Schwerpunkt ihrer Forschung liegt auf Innovationen im Bereich der Circular Economy in Städten, Regionen und der Bauindustrie. In ihrer Promotion untersuchte sie, wie Akteure in Planungs- und Bauprozessen von Gebäuden gemeinsam Circular Economy Innovationen vorantreiben und welche Rolle Netzwerke in diesem Zusammenhang spielen.

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