Katja Maria Hydle

• Hydle, Katja Maria & Skjølsvik, Tale (2026). Social platform value. In Slettli, Victoria & Baumann, Sabine (Ed.), Value Creation in Digital Platforms and Business Ecosystems.Networks, Relationships and the Platform Markets. Routledge. ISSN 9781032829234. doi: https:/www.routledge.com/Value-Creation-in-Digital-Platforms-and-Business-Ecosystems-Networks-Relationships-and-the-Platform-Markets/Slettli-Baumann/p/book/9781032829234. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Digital platform organizations have become integral to everyday life, delivering services and products while reshaping entire industries. Yet platforms are only one manifestation of a broader phenomenon: digital business ecosystems. These ecosystems extend beyond single firms or platforms, encompassing networks of users, complementors, institutions, and infrastructures that together create, transform, and distribute value. Value Creation in Digital Platforms and Business Ecosystems addresses the complexity of how both digital platforms and business ecosystems create and deliver value in the networks they construct, facilitate and control. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the international academic community, it provides an in-depth investigation of the mechanisms, dimensions, and challenges of value creation in digital contexts. This timely volume explores questions such as: How do digital platforms reconfigure traditional value chains? In what ways do ecosystems enable new forms of collaboration, entrepreneurial activity, and cultural participation? What tensions emerge when ecosystems foster innovation but also create dependencies, exclusion, or algorithmic bias? How do ecosystems affect labor markets, sustainability, and the blurring of boundaries between the physical and virtual? It is an essential reference text for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in the theoretical aspects and practical applications of value creation in digital platforms and business ecosystems.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2024). A process perspective on the micro-level of servitization stages. LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications - Tutkimusraportit. ISSN 2243-3376. p. 1–16. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This empirical paper assesses the micro-level of servitization processes. A current stream of servitization research have emerged and provide conceptual frameworks for understanding the macro-level servitization journey as a stepwise process. Extant servitization research delves into the content of these transformations, unravelling the change processes. Our study seeks to reveal what goes on at the micro-level, and between the macro-stages. Drawing insights from qualitative data gathered in five manufacturing firms serving the Norwegian energy and maritime sector, we find that the servitization transition is characterized by diverse processes, blending top-down, bottom-up, and external unpredicted events. Endogenous factors like strategy and organizational culture, along with exogenous factors such as market characteristics, are found to impact the servitization processes. This research sheds light on the nuanced dynamics of servitization processes, enhancing our understanding of the activities happening between the macro-stages of the servitization journey. By exploring servitization processes empirically, the paper provides a conceptual lens underpinned by classical contributions of the processual perspective on organizational change. The paper also provides guidance to managers of the complex issues of what goes on between the stages in a servitization process at the micro-level.

• Iversen, Audun & Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). High innovation intensity in fish farming: The role of openness in innovation and strategy. Aquaculture Economics & Management. ISSN 1365-7305. 27(4), p. 760–789. doi: 10.1080/13657305.2023.2193161. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The salmon farming industry has since its infancy witnessed immense growth due to innovations increasing productivity. A significant part of the innovations causing the productivity growth has by many observers been attributed to collaborative and open R&D-efforts. Salmon farming in Norway is very research intensive, with a large share of R&D being publicly financed, and with results widely shared and innovations widely adopted. However, in recent years there has been a shift toward an increasing share of R&D becoming privately financed, leading to more closed innovation processes. This paper explores the importance of open innovation in salmon farming and the possible consequences of more closed innovation. The paper shows that openness of the innovations depends on the type of challenge and stakeholder. Innovation is at its most open when common challenges are addressed, like finding solutions for parasites and diseases. Innovation in salmon farming tends to become more closed as the industry consolidates, the larger the firm is and the closer to the market innovation takes place.

• Svendsrud, Daniel Stedjan; Smith, Peter & Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). Network Orchestration: Managing the Scaling of Platform-based Ecosystems. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN 1530-1605. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Multi-sided platform-based ecosystems have emerged as an important organizational arrangement and business model that sees the transformation of pipeline economies into network economies. How managers in these ecosystems approach scaling—as a means to grow their firms—is qualitatively different from what is prevalent in pipeline economies. This paper investigates how two platform companies in B2B markets scale their platform offering to users. We find that the type of platform, whether it is an innovation platform or transaction platform, involves different network effects. We show that innovation platforms need direct orchestration due to a lack of network effects, whereas transaction platforms follow a market logic which makes it easier to create network effects without direct interference by management.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Hydle, Katja Maria & Smiljic, Sanja (2023). Platform-based Digital Servitization: Business Models and the Role of Platforms. In Bitran, Iain; Bitetti, Leandro; Conn, Steffen; Fishburn, Jessica; Huizingh, Eelko; Ritala, Paavo; Torkelli, Marko & Yang, Jialei (Ed.), Innovation and Circular Economy, Proceedings of XXXIV ISPIM Innovation Conference, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 04 June to 07 June 2023. ISPIM Lappeenranta University of Technology Press. ISSN 9789526506937. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  An increasing number of manufacturing firms use digital platforms to enable and accelerate the shift from delivering physical products to delivering a mix of products and services. This shift is often referred to as platform-based digital servitization. The relationship between a servitized manufacturer’s business model and the role of digital platforms has received limited attention from researchers. This paper addresses this gap by conducting a comparative case study where two cases with opposing characteristics are contrasted and compared. The findings suggest that the role of digital platforms in the context of platform-based digital servitization is contingent upon whether the manufacturing firms in the ecosystem choose performance- based business models or not. The findings provide considerable assistance and guidance to platform managers searching for ways to use digital platforms in the context of servitization.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). ORGANISING DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES: THE CASE OF PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS. International Journal of Innovation Management. ISSN 1363-9196. doi: 10.1142/S1363919623500305. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study addresses the development of new integrated product–service systems (PSSs). Most empirical research on the organisation of development processes has focussed on new product development, new service development, software development and new business model development in isolation; however, the development of new, complex PSSs that require the integration of these development efforts has received limited research attention. We address this literature gap through a qualitative, in-depth study of five firms operating in the business-to-business context. The findings demonstrate that all new PSS development processes did not implement and use one specific process model. Instead, the organisation of new PSS development processes was contingent upon the type of services to be offered and the target business model. This study proposes a contingency framework for development processes that provides considerable guidance to managers searching for ways to facilitate the processes of developing new PSSs.

• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2022). Entrepreneuring practices: interconnected bundles for digital servitization. In Thompson, Neil Aaron; Byrne, Orla; Jenkins, Anna & Teague, Bruce T. (Ed.), Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship as Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781788976824. p. 298–313. doi: 10.4337/9781788976831.00027. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The existing corporate entrepenurship (CE) literature is based on the understanding that CE rests on social ontological individualism, claiming that social life is an aggregate of individuals' actions. To further enhance our knowledge of CE activities as a social phenomena, this chapter uses practice theory to uncover the interrelated activities of CE practitioners. We study CE practices in the context of servitization, through the entrepreneurial practices formed when manufacturers move from products to services. Our empirical material is gathered from five manufacturing firms in Norway within an industrial cluster of suppliers to the energy and maritime sectors. We identify four interrelated entrepreneuring practices: prospecting the ecosystem; developing the new service-oriented business venture; transforming the organization; and establishing the new service-oriented business venture. We use practice theory empirically to describe the dynamics related to practice-arrangement bundles. Finally, we contribute to CE theory by exposing the four emergent CE bundles and the ways different types of practitioners were involved in the practice-arrangement bundles we identified.

• Hydle, Katja Maria & Wallevik, Kristin (2021). Intrabound Innovation and Strategizing in Service MNCs. In Mention, Anne-Laure & Aas, Tor Helge (Ed.), Managing Open Service Innovation. World Scientific. ISSN 9789811234484. p. 117–143. doi: 10.1142/9789811234491_0006. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter explores open innovation and explicit and emergent strategizing in Norwegian and foreign-based multinationals in the oil and gas service sectors. The chapter combines literature on open innovation and strategizing to shed light on mechanisms within firms regarding openness in innovation. Findings from 10 multinational companies demonstrate that company acquisition and location sourcing are explicit strategizing activities based at headquarters and expose inbound innovation in line with existing literature. Everyday practices on the periphery show that activities acquisition and knowledge sourcing are patterns of emergent strategizing that are performed locally and expose intra-bound innovation, nuancing existing open innovation categories. Our findings also nuance the understanding of strategizing from headquarters by demonstrating ambidexterity of both center and periphery. Strategizing is both centralized and dispersed and there are inbound and intra-bound innovation in use between the headquarters and the periphery that are initiated and evolve from both places, complementing each other. By combining research on strategy with open innovation, we expose center and periphery ambidexterity and provide open innovation research with an understanding of push and pull forces for intra-bound innovation.

• Müller, Martin Lee & Hydle, Katja Maria (2021). Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices. In Grusovnik, Tomaz; Spannring, Reingard & Syse, Karen Lykke (Ed.), Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 9781793610461. p. 103–126. Full text in Research Archive
• Matzner, Martin; Pauli, Tobias; Marx, Emanuel; Anke, Jürgen; Poeppelbuss, Jens & Fielt, Erwin [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2021). Transitioning to Platform-based Services and Business Models in a B2B Environment. Journal of Service Management Research (SMR). ISSN 2511-8676. 5(3), p. 143–162. doi: 10.15358/2511-8676-2021-3-143. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Given the considerable success of companies such as Apple, Amazon or Airbnb, the term platform is on everyone’s lips today. Accordingly, platforms have long since also found their way into service science. However, mastering the transition from established product-sales-based offerings to platform-based services and business models comes with a multitude of challenges. In a B2B context, incumbent companies need to carefully evaluate how they can benefit from the establishment of platforms, especially in light of the effects on their existing business models and ties to other actors. Hence, we invited scholars with different backgrounds to provide viewpoints on the opportunities and challenges of the transition to platform-based services and business models in a B2B environment. The individual commentaries provide various insights on how to conduct this transition and benefit from it successfully. To do so, they contrast different approaches for establishing and governing ecosystems around platforms, discuss B2B-specific pitfalls and opportunities of platform business models, uncover the supporting role of platforms for smart service development, and stress the importance of platform and ecosystem thinking as a necessary mindset.

• Svendsrud, Daniel Stedjan; Hydle, Katja Maria & Aanestad, Margunn (2021). Orchestration in Practice: A Case in Asset Intensive Industry. IRIS Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. ISSN 1891-9863. 12. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Kohtamäki, Marko (2021). Viewing Servitization Through a Practice-Theoretical Lens. In Kohtamaki, Marko; Baines, Tim; Rabetino, Rodrigo; Bigdeli, Ali; Kowalkowski, Christian; Oliva, Rogelio & Parida, Vinit (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030757700. p. 231–246. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75771-7_15. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Complex transitions, such as servitization, require in-depth investigation to understand the changes taking place during the transformation. Practice-theoretical perspective can provide an interesting lens to understand the details of the changes taking place. This study presents a specific lens, Schatzki’s practice theory, to understand servitization. This article views servitization through practice emergence, persistence, and dissolution; we zoom in and out to understand servitization practices and discuss servitization-as-practice.

• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hanseth, Ole; Aanestad, Margunn & Aas, Tor Helge (2021). Digital Transformation through Collaborative Platformization: A Study of Incumbent-Entrepreneur Relations. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN 1530-1605. p. 5831–5840. doi: 10.24251/HICSS.2021.707. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2021). Digital Servitization: Strategies for Handling Customization and Customer Interaction. In Kohtamaki, Marko; Baines, Tim; Rabetino, Rodrigo; Bigdeli, Ali; Kowalkowski, Christian; Oliva, Rogelio & Parida, Vinit (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030757700. p. 355–372. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75771-7_23. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This conceptual chapter utilizes extant servitization and digitalization theorization and discusses the impact of digital servitization on customization/standardization and customer interaction. The study argues that the transformation toward digital servitization is complex and goes far beyond the technological dimension. The study contributes to the digital servitization literature by demonstrating that industrial services shift from customized and co-created to mainly standardized-provided and informating when they are digitalized. These insights can assist managers of servitized manufacturing firms who wish to utilize digital technologies in their service provision.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2021). Product-Service Systems in the Digital Era: Deconstructing Servitisation Business Model Typologies. In Kohtamaki, Marko; Baines, Tim; Rabetino, Rodrigo; Bigdeli, Ali; Kowalkowski, Christian; Oliva, Rogelio & Parida, Vinit (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Servitization. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030757700. p. 73–87. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-75771-7_5. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The identification of business model typologies of servitised firms is part of a long research tradition. However, the relevance of many existing typologies in the contemporary context, in which digitalisation is central to business model innovation, may be questioned. Thus, in this chapter, we revisit the existing literature and continue the conceptual discussion about the categorisation of product-service system business models. We propose a conceptual product-service system business model framework with three independent continuums: the degrees of ownership retention, results-orientedness and smartness. Based on this framework, we derive a new product-service system business model typology with eight categories that extends and bridges previous typologies in significant ways. The proposed framework is intended to serve as a sensitising concept for further research and the implementation of servitisation strategies in practice.

• Hydle, Katja Maria & Billington, Mary Genevieve (2020). Entrepreneurial practices of collaboration comprising constellations. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. ISSN 1355-2554. doi: 10.1108/IJEBR-10-2018-0646. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The originality of the study is the identification and exposition of distinctive constellations of collaboration stemming from entrepreneurial innovation. This study exposes that innovation is differently open, whether the collaboration is interdependent, incorporated into the collaboration or independent from the other collaborative partners, with implications for learning and for innovation outcomes. The findings give insight into the enabling and limiting factors of each constellation, factors which may facilitate or hinder learning and innovation.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Service-oriented business models in manufacturing in the digital era: Toward a new taxonomy. International Journal of Innovation Management. ISSN 1363-9196. 24(8). doi: 10.1142/S1363919620400022. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A stream of servitisation research has focused on the construction of taxonomies and typologies of product–service system business models (BMs). However, their relevance in the context of increased utilisation of digital technologies may be questioned. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to empirically revisit the existing product–service system BM taxonomies to explore the following research question: How can the BMs of servitised manufacturing firms be categorised in the digital era? The question is addressed through an embedded case study of five servitised firms. We found that the firms’ BMs varied with regard to the degree of the suppliers’ ownership of delivered products, degree of smartness of the services provided and degree of performance orientation of contracts. Based on these findings, we derived a new product–service system BM taxonomy with eight categories, presented in a 2 × 2 × 2 matrix, that significantly extends earlier taxonomies.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Service-oriented Business Models in manufacturing in the Digital Era: Toward a New Typology. In Bitrain, Iain; Conn, Steffen; Gernreich, Chris; Heber, Michelle; Huizingh, K.R.E.; Kokshagina, Olga; Torkkeli, Marko & Tynnhammar, Marcus (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2020 ISPIM Innovation Conference (Virtual) Event : Innovating in Times of Crisis. ISPIM Lappeenranta University of Technology Press. ISSN 9789523354661. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A stream of servitization research has focused on identifying typologies of product-service system business models. However, their relevance may be questioned in a context with increased utilization of digital technologies. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to empirically revisit existing product-service system business model typologies by raising the following research question: How can business models of servitized manufacturing firms be categorized in the digital era? This question is addressed through a qualitative multiple case study of five servitized firms. Data was collected through semi structured in-depth interviews with a total of 66 key-employees, and through participation in 26 workshops and discussion meetings with the firms. Based on our empirical findings we derived a new product-service system business model typology with 8 different categories presented in a 2x2x2 matrix.

• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Understanding Innovation in Digital Product-Service Ecosystems – A Business Model Perspective. In Narvaiza, Lorea; Opazo, Marco; Campos, Tontxu & Vendrell-Herrero, Ferran (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Servitization (ICBS 2019 - San Sebastian). University of Deusto. ISSN 9788412064346. p. 235–240. doi: 10.3926/serv2019. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Aas, Tor Helge & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2019). Digitally enabled servitization strategy in manufacturing firms. In Schiuma, Giovanni; Demartini, Paola & Yan, Min-Ren (Ed.), Knowledge ecosystems and growth. Institute of Knowledge Asset Management (IKAM). ISSN 9788896687123. p. 16–29. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Hopwood, Nick (2019). Practices and knowing in transnational knowledge-intensive service provisions. Human Relations. ISSN 0018-7267. 72(12), p. 1948–1972. doi: 10.1177/0018726718815555. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Managing Innovation Processes: The Case of Integrated Product-Service Systems, Proceedings of the XXX ISPIM Innovation Conference. ISPIM Lappeenranta University of Technology Press. ISSN 9789523353510. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Most research on the management of innovation processes has focused on either new product development or new service development, while the development of new integrated product-service systems has received limited attention. This paper addresses this literature gap by exploring qualitatively how new integrated product-service systems are developed in five firms. The findings demonstrated that there is not one specific process that is implemented and used in all new product-service system development initiatives. Instead the characteristics and the management of the new productservice system development processes were found to be contingent upon both the type of services (smart digital services vs. traditional services) and the business model (product-oriented services vs. result-oriented services). These findings provide considerable guidance to managers searching for ways to manage the processes of developing new product-service systems. Further research is needed to verify if the same contingencies are found in other types of organization

• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2018). Strategizing for servitization: From products to innovating in services, Proceedings of ISPIM Connects Fukuoka 2018. ISPIM Lappeenranta University of Technology Press. ISSN 9789523352216. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2018). Stages in transforming product- to service-oriented business models, Proceedings of ISPIM Connects Fukuoka 2018. ISPIM Lappeenranta University of Technology Press. ISSN 9789523352216. Full text in Research Archive
• Skjølsvik, Tale; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; FOSSTENLØKKEN, Siw Marita; Revang, Øivind; Strønen, Fred H. & Hærem, Thorvald [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2017). Obituary: Professor Bente R. Løwendahl (1958-2017). Journal of Professions and Organization. ISSN 2051-8803. p. 89–90. doi: 10.1093/jpo/jox007. Full text in Research Archive
• Billington, Mary Genevieve & Hydle, Katja Maria (2017). Fish farming on the moon: Innovations countering professional and conventional ways. Journal of Innovation Management. 5(3), p. 140–155. doi: 10.24840/2183-0606_005.003_0008. Full text in Research Archive
• Aslesen, Heidi; Hydle, Katja Maria & Wallevik, Kristin (2017). Extra-regional linkages through MNCs in organizationally thick and specialized RISs: a source of new path development? European Planning Studies. ISSN 0965-4313. 25(3), p. 443–461. doi: 10.1080/09654313.2016.1273322. Full text in Research Archive
• Brock, David & Hydle, Katja Maria (2017). Transnationality – Sharpening the Integration-Responsiveness vision in global professional firms. European Management Journal. ISSN 0263-2373. 36(1), p. 117–124. doi: 10.1016/j.emj.2017.01.003. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Brock, David (2017). Global collaboration in knowledge intensive firms: The role of activity configurations. Journal of Management & Organization. ISSN 1833-3672. doi: 10.1017/jmo.2017.63. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hydle, Katja Maria (2017). Exploring New Service Portfolio Management. International Journal of Innovation Management. ISSN 1363-9196. 21(6), p. 1–31. doi: 10.1142/S136391961750044X. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Most research on the management of innovation portfolios has focused on new product portfolios, whereas the management of new service portfolios has not been researched correspondingly. This paper addresses this literature gap by exploring portfolio management of New Service Development (NSD) activities empirically. The paper applies a qualitative research design, where data was collected in 52 in-depth interviews with managers and employees involved with NSD. The study finds that the portfolio management activities and processes were carried out in parallel with the NSD process, and that the most important stakeholders in the NSD portfolio management organization were top managers not involved in the daily NSD operations. Findings reveal that the firms used a great variety of criteria when making portfolio decisions. However, contrary to prescriptions based on new product development research, the decision process exposed for NSD was to a limited degree assisted by explicit portfolio management tools. We explicate our findings in five propositions.

• Breunig, Karl Joachim; Aas, Tor Helge & Hydle, Katja Maria (2016). Open Innovation or Innovation in the Open? An Exploration of the Strategy–Innovation Link in Five Scale-Intensive Services. In Mention, Anne-Laure & Torkelli, Marko (Ed.), Open Innovation: Bridging Theory and Practice, Vol. 1: A Open Innovation: Multifaceted Perspective. World Scientific. ISSN 9789814719209. p. 67–87. doi: 10.1142/9789814719186_0004. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter explores the strategy–innovation link in open service innovations. The increased attention to the role of the firm's external environment on innovation has important implications for strategy. However, our literature review reveals that the strategy–innovation link is ambiguously treated in extant theory, especially with respect to open- and service-innovations. Therefore, we inductively explore innovation practices in five large scale-intensive service firms to establish the link between their strategy and open innovation practices. To our surprise, we find that explicit innovation strategies lack in all five firms. The findings also suggest that the logic of innovation and strategy is hard to integrate in practice for these firms. Based on our empirical exploration, we contradict existing research on the role of strategy and open service innovations and detail implications based on our study.

• Hydle, Katja Maria; Aas, Tor Helge & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2016). Towards a framework for new service development practices. Journal of Innovation Management. 4(4), p. 55–67. doi: 10.24840/2183-0606_004.004_0005. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Meland, Kjersti V. (2016). Spinning Them Off: Entrepreneuring practices in Corporate Spin-Offs. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI). ISSN 2299-7075. 12(1), p. 57–73. doi: 10.7341/20161213. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Meland, Kjersti V. (2016). Supplying Spin-Offs: Collaboration Practices in the Perpetuation of an Organization. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI). ISSN 2299-7075. 12(4), p. 51–68. doi: 10.7341/20161243. Full text in Research Archive
• Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild; Hydle, Katja Maria & Brehmer, Per Olof (2015). Innovative Capabilities in International Professional Service Firms: Enabling Trade-Offs between Past, Present and Future Service Provision. Journal of Professions and Organization. ISSN 2051-8803. 2(2), p. 148–167. doi: 10.1093/jpo/jov005. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study examines the relationship between service provision and innovation in international professional service firms (IPSFs). Through an extended study in one IPSF, we find that innovation stems from the provision of services in the past and present. Different service provisions offer different learning opportunities which influence the modification, renewal, and creation of service concepts,service processes, technologies, and relationships. In order to take advantage of the learning opportunities, certain operational and dynamics capabilities are identified as important. With regard to operational capabilities, understanding customer needs, internal learning, formalization, external and relational learning, integration, and commercialization are identified as important capabilities. Further, two dynamic capabilities driving innovation are identified: learning and knowledge accumulation and scaling and expanding the service portfolio. The learning and knowledge accumulation apability is grounded in the efficient provision of standardized-provided services. By providing these services, insights into customer’s needs are gained, specialized expertise is developed, and reputation and legitimacy for solving novel and complex problems increase. The scaling and expanding capability enables the IPSF to develop customized–co-produced services into standardized-provided services over time with global outreach. Our study shows that careful management of the service portfolio is of utmost strategic importance for the sustainable competitive advantage of IPSFs

• Hydle, Katja Maria (2015). Temporal and spatial dimensions of strategizing. Organization Studies. ISSN 0170-8406. 36(5), p. 643–663. doi: 10.1177/0170840615571957. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria & Pedersen, Per Egil (2015). Innovation Management Practices in Production-Intensive Service Firms. International Journal of Innovation Management. ISSN 1363-9196. 19(5). doi: 10.1142/S1363919615500553. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper posits that innovation management practices are contingent upon the type of industry, and examines the innovation management practices in a distinctive set of service firms: production-intensive service firms. Production-intensive services are standardised services produced at a large scale. These services have received little attention from prior comprehensive qualitative innovation management practices research. The examination in this paper is based on in-depth interviews with 21 key-employees in five large Scandinavian production-intensive service firms. The results revealed a number of innovation management practices specific to production-intensive service firms in the four dimensions of strategy and culture, front end of innovation and portfolio management, development process, as well as intellectual and organisational resources. The findings expose that production-intensive service firms are less likely to have an explicit innovation strategy and they are unlikely to measure the strategic impact of innovation activities. Furthermore, the innovation processes in production-intensive service firms tend to be flexible, although formal descriptions exist. The findings extend knowledge on innovation management practices research and provide useful lessons and implications for managers who seek to develop new production-intensive services. The findings also demonstrate that there is a need to acknowledge a contingent view of innovation management practices that are receptive to the type of context the innovation occur in.

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• Hydle, Katja Maria (2024). Digital platforms and GHG. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Vesa, Mikko (2024). Digital sustainability: Digital platform services for the Oil & Gas Industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Schupfer, Hannah & Vesa, Mikko (2024). Strategizing for sustainability: Digital platform services in heavy-asset industries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). The evolution of industry platforms to enhance digital sustainability. Full text in Research Archive
• Schupfer, Hannah & Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). Sustainability trajectories: the co-evolution of technological frames and platform development. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). Practices and digital platform services in heavy-asset industries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Schupfer, Hannah & Vesa, Mikko (2023). The Geopolitics of Industrial Data: The Case of Digital Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2023). Sustainability with digital platform services in heavy-asset industries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Schupfer, Hannah (2023). Strategizing for sustainability: Digital platform services in heavy-asset industries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Skjølsvik, Tale (2022). Strategies for disruptive and inclusive social platform ecosystems. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Faulconbridge, James (2022). Transnational Organizing of Professionals. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Skjølsvik, Tale (2022). Dimensions of Strategy in Disruptive and Inclusive Social Platform Ecosystems. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Skjølsvik, Tale (2022). Social platform entrepreneuring: Dialogical encounters and polyphonic organizing. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2021). Digitale økosystemer. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hanseth, Ole; Aanestad, Margunn & Aas, Tor Helge (2021). Digital Transformation through Collaborative Platformization: A Study of Incumbent-Entrepreneur Relations. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Rolland, Knut-Helge Ronæs (2021). The role of ‘digital technology figurations’ in servitizing organizations. Full text in Research Archive
• Haugjord, Barbro Renland; Hydle, Katja Maria & Aanestad, Margunn (2021). Platform of Platforms Providing Granular Flexibility - A Case from the Electricity Sector. Full text in Research Archive
• Svendsrud, Daniel Stedjan; Hydle, Katja Maria & Aanestad, Margunn (2021). Orchestration in Practice: A Case in Asset Intensive Industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Haugvaldstad, Hans Erik & Hydle, Katja Maria (2021). Enticing municipal participation in interorganizational strategizing. Full text in Research Archive
• Mueller, Martin Lee & Hydle, Katja Maria (2021). Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices. In Grusovnik, Tomaz; Spannring, Reingard & Syse, Karen Lykke (Ed.), Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 9781793610461. p. 103–126. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter advances existing research on food production practices by interpreting empirical research in the light of an ongoing paradigm shift, that between Enlightenment and Enlivenment theory and practice. Through this theoretical lens, we interpret the organizing of salmon farming and its epistemological and ontological implications. We argue that an industry marketed as ‘the future’ of human-animal relationships – spearhead of the so-called ‘blue revolution’ said to be currently underway – shows symptoms of a comprehensive, structural denial of aliveness. We document practices of denying the fishes’ outer and inner nature, of denying the commonwealth of ecological entanglements, and of denying nature’s tendency for steady-state housekeeping. We show how such practices alienate the human-animal-lifeworld both technologically and conceptually. What is at stake in contemporary farming practices, we argue, is not merely a question of our attitude towards other living beings, but more fundamentally who these others are allowed to be. Against this background, we develop the tenets of future enlivened economic practices, practices that successfully disentangle, reject, and ultimately overcome the multiple structural denials of contemporary feedlot industries.

• Aas, Tor Helge & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). The oil and gas industry case. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Data og strategi i en digital tid. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Digitalisering. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Aas, Tor Helge (2020). Collaborating for Digital Transformation: Interfirm Changes for Platform Development between an Entrepreneurial and an Incumbent Firm. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Fra produkt- til tjenestefokus. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Servation: Avsluttende prosjektpresentasjon, NYMO, mai 2020. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Servation: Avsluttende prosjektpresentasjon MHWirth, mai 2020. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Servation: Avsluttende prosjektpresentasjon Mandals, mai 2020. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2020). Servation: Avsluttende prosjektpresentasjon, mai 2020. Full text in Research Archive
• Mäkitie, Tuukka Rainer Reinhold; Steen, Markus; Thune, Taran Mari; Lund, Henrik Brynthe; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya & Ullern, Eli Fyhn [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). Greener and smarter? Transformations in five Norwegian industrial sectors. SINTEF Rapport (ISBN starter med 978-82-14-). Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2019). Intrapreneuring for servitization. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2019). Organizing for ecosystems. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2019). Digitally mediated organizing: Sociomateriality at work for servitization. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). SERVATION: Fra produkt til tjenester. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Understanding Innovation in Digital Product-Service Ecosystems – A Business Model Perspective. Full text in Research Archive
• Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Digitalisering, økosystemer og bærekraft. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Managing Digital Innovation Processes: The Case of Integrated Product-Service Systems. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Interaksjonsarena for SERVATION prosjektet. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Iversen, Audun (2018). Open Strategy and Open Innovation in Fish Farming. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2018). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2018). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon - MHWirth. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2018). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon - NorSap. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge & Hydle, Katja Maria (2018). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon - Mandals. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Hydle, Katja Maria (2018). Tjenestefisering og strategisk transformasjon - MacGregor. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2018). Stages in transforming product- to service-oriented business models. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2018). Strategizing for servitization: From products to innovating in services. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2018). Digitization for servitization: Embodied sociomaterial practices. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria & Iversen, Audun (2017). Degrees of open innovation in fish farming industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Mueller, Martin Lee & Hydle, Katja Maria (2017). Fish farming in troubling water: Ethics versus value creation in food production practices. Full text in Research Archive
• Isaksen, Arne; Fløysand, Arnt; Asheim, Bjørn Terje; Aslesen, Heidi; Hydle, Katja Maria & Gjelsvik, Martin [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2017). Innovasjons- og næringslivsforskning ved et veiskille. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir & Iversen, Audun (2017). Fish quality: Value creation and value destruction in the value production of food. Full text in Research Archive
• Iversen, Audun; Hydle, Katja Maria & Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir (2017). Innovation and unnovation hand in hand: The relations within the white fish industry. Full text in Research Archive
• Aslesen, Heidi; Hydle, Katja Maria & Nygaard, Vigdis (2016). Innovating in MNCs Innovation modes and outcomes at play. Full text in Research Archive
• Aslesen, Heidi; Hydle, Katja Maria & Wallevik, Kristin (2016). Extra-regional linkages through MNCs in organizationally thick and specialized RIS; a source of regional development? Full text in Research Archive
• Tennås, Ann-Karin; Hydle, Katja Maria & Haugvaldstad, Hans Erik (2022). Enacting intermunicipal strategy: Multi-tranche strategizing in governance networks. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISSN 9788284390802. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Entering into interorganizational collaborations is one approach to handling the complex challenges faced by the public sector (Eriksson et al., 2020; Poister et al., 2013; Roberts, 2000; Torfing, 2019). Such collaborations often take the form of governance networks (Torfing, 2012). While attention has been paid to aspects such as network governance (Klijn, 2008; Sørensen & Torfing, 2017, 2009), structure, management (Provan & Kenis, 2008), democratic legitimacy (Klijn & Skelcher, 2007; Sørensen & Torfing, 2005), and efficiency (Provan & Kenis, 2008; Wang, 2016), little has been written on how the participants in a governance network conduct strategic work. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore how strategy is conceptualized and enacted within the context of municipal governance networks. This study leans on the strategy-as-practice (SAP) perspective (Golsorkhi et al., 2015; Jarzabkowski et al., 2016; Reckwitz, 2002; Whittington, 1996) to explore the empirical context of a governance network (Torfing, 2012) tasked with helping the participating municipalities with digital transformation. Within the SAP perspective, strategy refers to the consequential activities performed to move an organization in a certain direction, whereas strategizing refers to how these activities are produced (Golsorkhi et al., 2015; Jarzabkowski et al., 2007; Jarzabkowski et al., 2021; Jarzabkowski & Spee, 2009). In addition, the concepts of open strategy (Hautz et al., 2017; Seidl et al., 2019; Whittington et al., 2011) and interorganizational strategizing (De Gooyert et al., 2019) are used to inform the strategy work conducted, augmented by literature on organizational motivations (De Gooyert et al., 2019; Hautz et al., 2019; Seidl et al., 2019), the enticement of individuals (Brabham, 2010; Dahlander et al., 2019; Dahlander & Piezunka, 2014; Seltzer & Mahmoudi, 2013), democratic legitimacy (Mosley & Wong, 2020; Papadopoulos & Warin, 2007; Scharpf, 1999; Schmidt, 2012), organizational legitimacy (Deephouse et al., 2017; Suchman, 1995), and strategy implementation (Friesl et al., 2020; Weiser et al., 2020) to discern empirical nuances. A pragmatic research paradigm (Kaushik & Walsh, 2019; Morgan, 2014; Pansiri, 2005; Powell, 2001) is adopted in an effort to identify real-world challenges faced when enacting strategy in a governance network, as identified – either directly or indirectly – by the stakeholders themselves. A case study with an abductive approach (Blaikie, 2009; Dubois & Gadde, 2002; Gerring, 2004; Yin, 2003) is conducted on the governance network Digi Rogaland. Additionally, data are collected from three of the participating municipalities to explore how they relate to the network and work to enact the network strategy. Qualitative methods are used, and the empirical material consists of interviews, observations, and documents. Analysis is conducted through a reflexive process (Alvesson & Sköldberg, 2018; Alvesson & Kärreman, 2007). The findings first identify a desire and need to entice municipalities to participate in interorganizational strategizing (Article 1). This is achieved using financial, structural, and nonfinancial mechanisms to promote adherence and lock the participants into the network, thus allowing for standardizations across municipal borders. Second, the analysis identifies a legitimacy gap between stakeholders directly involved in the network and those only indirectly affected (Article 2). Directly involved stakeholders view the network as a necessity, whereas indirectly affected stakeholders are mainly indifferent or, in some cases, opposed to participation. Third, challenges in enacting a network strategy are identified, which require balancing acts (Article 3). These are ambiguously balanced against clarity in strategy conceptualization, the use of coercion against voluntary participation, the choice of concentrating or distributing decision-making power, and the selection of a top-down or bottom-up approach to coordination. The overarching analysis reveals that, when viewed from the SAP perspective, the network strategy is not enacted in the sense that no consequential activities for moving in the strategic direction of the network can be identified within the municipalities. This study finds that strategizing mainly occurs within the network, while strategizing to bridge between the network and municipalities is left to the municipalities themselves. However, this strategizing is not achieved. Possible explanations include a lack of legitimacy, limited inclusion and transparency with a top-down perspective on strategy, and different organizational interests and capabilities. This thesis contributes to theoretical and empirical knowledge by identifying strategic practices with a top-down perspective – an approach that does not conform with the ideals of openness and collaboration in governance networks. The analysis indicates the need to engage in multi-tranche strategizing in order to enact strategy in the participating municipal organizations. To sufficiently enact a strategy, strategizing is necessary not only in the network and municipal tranches but also in the interplay between these sets of stakeholders. Furthermore, the analysis identifies differences in underlying assumptions in the applied theoretical frameworks, including differences in legitimacy, participation, and transparency. Suggested avenues of future research include empirical studies of open strategy principles applied in public organizations, such as the selection of participants, the distribution of decision-making power, and the dissemination of information.

• Mäkitie, Tuukka; Steen, Markus; Thune, Taran Mari; Lund, Henrik Brynthe; Kenzhegaliyeva, Assiya & Ullern, Eli Fyhn [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). Greener and smarter? Transformations in five Norwegian industrial sectors. SINTEF Digital. ISSN 9788214064339. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This report is an output from the INTRANSIT Research Centre on Innovation Policy for Industrial Transformation, Sustainability and Digitalisation. The report presents an analysis of green and digital transformations in five Norwegian industrial sectors: oil and gas, maritime, aquaculture, manufacturing and process industries. By drawing on perspectives from innovation and sustainability transition studies, we analyse how the industrial sectors respond to green and digital pressures as well as opportunities. Our results show that while a green transformation is gathering momentum in the maritime sector, little radical change has yet taken place in various other sectors. Meanwhile, the thrust driving digitalization is often connected to increasing cost-efficiency and competitiveness in global markets. However, in the aquaculture sector, digital technologies are often applied to solve environmental and fish health issues. Green and digital transformations in industrial sectors may thus have points of interaction, leading to complementary, but occasionally also conflicting, developments. Based on empirical findings we draw insights for green and digital transformation policy, and take note on how COVID-19 pandemic may affect such transformations.

• Breunig, Karl Joachim; Hydle, Katja Maria; Hellström, Magnus Mikael & Aas, Tor Helge (2019). Servation prosjektet: Tjenestefisering i GCE Node, delrapport MacGregor. GCE Node. Full text in Research Archive
• Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Aas, Tor Helge; Breunig, Karl Joachim & Hydle, Katja Maria (2019). Servation prosjektet: Tjenestefisering i GCE Node, delrapport Fenner Mandals. GCE Node. Full text in Research Archive
• Hydle, Katja Maria; Breunig, Karl Joachim; Aas, Tor Helge & Hellström, Magnus Mikael (2019). Servation prosjektet: Tjenestefisering i GCE Node, delrapport Nymo. GCE Node. Full text in Research Archive
• Aas, Tor Helge; Hellström, Magnus Mikael; Hydle, Katja Maria & Breunig, Karl Joachim (2019). Servation prosjektet: Tjenestefisering i GCE Node, delrapport MHWirth. GCE Node. Full text in Research Archive

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