Forward-Looking Sustainability Agency for Developing Future Cruise Ships
Apostol O.; Jokinen L.; Kalliomäki H.; Heikkilä K.; Palonen T.
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042822789
Tiivistelmä
The study addressed sharing of futures insights as a component of
sustainability agency for long-term company enhancement in an
interorganizational shipbuilders’ network. The purpose was to analyze
social structures under “agency” terminology. This joint sustainability
project involved a partnership of firms, academia, and nongovernmental
organization (NGO) actors in collaborative cruise ship building. The
study adapted a mixed method approach where social network analysis
(SNA) was enriched with other contextual data to make network data more
applicable and accessible. The results revealed a loose and thin network
structure, with relatively high trust among network actors. The
network’s social structure was found to facilitate insight sharing. Lead
firm actors clearly played a central role in enhancing sustainability,
and the researchers, as well as industrial association actors, made a
significant contribution to insight sharing and transmission. The
findings suggest that the case network would benefit from an open and
balanced social structure that incorporates a number of insight brokers
to enhance forward-looking sustainability agency (F-L SA). Futures
insight sharing enhances agency in the context of joint sustainability
actions and improves capacity to respond to systemic challenges.
Understanding how proactive agency can be promoted in network settings
strengthens strategic aspects of managerial practice and contributes to
discourse around sustainability agency
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