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Collaborating for sustainability: strategic knowledge networks, natural resource management and regional development

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  • Nancy Higginson
  • Harrie Vredenburg

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Many firms have turned to strategies based on collaborative initiatives with stakeholders to generate the valuable knowledge resources needed to be successful in today's global economy. Firms in natural resource-based industries such as mining, energy and forestry, which typically provide the backbone for regional development in their production locations, have become leaders in establishing innovative sustainability initiatives that integrate a range of stakeholder interests. Using a case-based inductive theory-building approach, this paper presents a model of a strategic knowledge network based on collaboration between firms in Canada's west coast forest products industry and their stakeholders. It presents a three-phase model with the important knowledge creating variables, the knowledge resources accruing from the network, and the performance implications for the firms. The model has value for firms in other resource-based industries that face stakeholder conflicts and are working to incorporate sustainability principles into their strategies.

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  • Nancy Higginson & Harrie Vredenburg, 2010. "Collaborating for sustainability: strategic knowledge networks, natural resource management and regional development," International Journal of Sustainable Economy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3), pages 334-351.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsuse:v:2:y:2010:i:3:p:334-351
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    Cited by:

    1. Andrew Sharpe & Blair Long, 2012. "Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries: A Systems-Based Analysis of Performance, Policy and Emerging Challenges," CSLS Research Reports 2012-06, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
    2. Luis Escobar & Harrie Vredenburg, 2011. "Multinational Oil Companies and the Adoption of Sustainable Development: A Resource-Based and Institutional Theory Interpretation of Adoption Heterogeneity," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 98(1), pages 39-65, January.

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