Johan Kask

• Cristofaro, Matteo; Abatecola, Gianpaolo & Kask, Johan (2024). Business network paradoxes: A literature review and co-evolutionary perspective. Industrial Marketing Management. ISSN 0019-8501. 120, p. 115–131. doi: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2024.05.011. Show summary

  How can studying paradoxes in business networks help understand the networks' adaptation and survival? IMP identifies three central paradoxes influencing business networks: i) Development of Relationships vs. Inability to Change, ii) Controlling vs. Effectiveness, and iii) Stability vs. Change. Studying them seems critical to knowing how interdependent participants in business networks adapt to one another. To do that, we use a co-evolutionary lens to review 41 articles dealing with business network paradoxes from an IMP perspective. Results of the Reflexive Thematic Analysis underline that salient tensions mainly originate from weak coordinating norms, resource misallocation, the relationship of newness and aging, and Machiavellian behaviour. As the main value of our work, we then advance that embracing a co-evolutionary perspective can help shed novel light on these paradoxes by contrasting the factors that make the tensions salient with those able to overcome them. Specifically, we identify moral behaviour, structuration of the network, network capability development, and co-adaptation as four main factors that mitigate the paradoxes and help networks' adaptation and survival. Accordingly, we advocate a co-evolutionary conceptual framework regarding paradoxes and outline five co-evolutionary claims as implications for research and practice.

• Ertelt, Sophie-Marie & Kask, Johan (2023). Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. ISSN 2210-4224. 50. doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2023.100802. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Recent work has offered a more nuanced view of incumbent actors’ roles in transitions, yet a comprehensive understanding of how reorientation activities and subsequent interaction patterns among different incumbent actor types shape the direction of system reconfigurations remains underexplored. This paper proposes a framework for empirically assessing actors’ relational dynamics in response to low-carbon transitions and conceptualises actor interaction types and the nature of their interaction. Through a case study of the low-carbon transition of road freight transport in Sweden, we examine how reorientation dynamics, e.g., coalitions, competition, and contestations, can facilitate and hinder system reconfigurations by creating regime tensions. Our study highlights that incumbency reorientations are multi-dimensional, with actor involvement and strategies varying, leading to divergent actor positions and role constellations as actors attempt to reconfigure the focal regime. Extending beyond the Swedish case, five avenues for future research are outlined.

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• Carlborg, Per; Ertelt, Sophie-Marie; Kask, Johan & Klézl, Vojtech (2024). JUST Positive Energy Planning Process: A Project Based on Four Frontrunner Neighbourhoods.
• Kask, Johan (2024). Maximizing the Success Odds? Lessons from a Swedish PhD Program.
• Kask, Johan & Linton, Gabriel (2024). Cities without emissions: Are some areas or groups forgotten in the low-carbon transition?
• Ertelt, Sophie-Marie & Kask, Johan (2023). Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions.
• Kask, Johan (2023). Presenting 'Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development' in 'Meet the Editors' session.
• Ertelt, Sophie-Marie & Kask, Johan (2023). Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions.
• Kask, Johan & Findsrud, Rolf (2023). Exploring the Dark Side of Digital Transformation in Sustainability Transitions.
• Kask, Johan (2023). Byer uten utslipp: Er noen områder og grupper glemt i det grønne skiftet?

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