Digital Platforms for the Circular Economy: Exploring Meta-Organizational Orchestration Mechanisms

Digital platform technology enables circular business models that facilitate the reduction, reuse, and recycling of resources materials across large ecosystems actors. However, little is currently known about inner workings such platforms how they are organized. Framing these as meta-organizations, this study examines orchestration mechanisms deployed by owners to economic value creation with a model among group Building on an inductive analysis 10 European organizations, identifies five meta-organizational develops empirically grounded explains focal firm orchestrates platform-based model. This advances existing knowledge in meta-organizations economy context highlights novel implications for theory practice.