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TY - CONF
T1 - The brokerage role of a digital platform organisation in waste exchange network for a circular economy
AU - Do, Quynh
AU - Stevenson, Mark
PY - 2024/7/3
Y1 - 2024/7/3
N2 - The digital platform is recognised as a key enabler in facilitating information and resource flows for circular strategies such as recycling. Although the literature has attributed this to the brokerage functions of the digital platform in the recycling network, less is known about how digital platforms leverage their structural positions to facilitate these works. This paper sets out to explore how digital platform takes on brokerage roles to enable waste exchange networks for circularity. Drawing data from in-depth interviews with sixteen actors in a digital platform ecosystem, the findings indicate how a digital platform that pursues the tertius iungens strategy benefits from different structural positions to take on five roles, i.e., liaison, coordinator, consultant, gatekeeper and representative in facilitating waste exchange network for the circular economy. This provides empirical evidence for an integrative conceptualisation of brokerage structure and process in the circular network context.
AB - The digital platform is recognised as a key enabler in facilitating information and resource flows for circular strategies such as recycling. Although the literature has attributed this to the brokerage functions of the digital platform in the recycling network, less is known about how digital platforms leverage their structural positions to facilitate these works. This paper sets out to explore how digital platform takes on brokerage roles to enable waste exchange networks for circularity. Drawing data from in-depth interviews with sixteen actors in a digital platform ecosystem, the findings indicate how a digital platform that pursues the tertius iungens strategy benefits from different structural positions to take on five roles, i.e., liaison, coordinator, consultant, gatekeeper and representative in facilitating waste exchange network for the circular economy. This provides empirical evidence for an integrative conceptualisation of brokerage structure and process in the circular network context.
M3 - Conference paper
T2 - EurOMA 2024
Y2 - 29 June 2024 through 3 July 2024
ER -