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Title: The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies

Abstract

Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Swedish municipally owned waste management companies are active on political, material, technical, and commercial markets. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer These markets differ in kind and their demands follow different logics. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer These markets affect the public service, processing, and marketing of Swedish waste management. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Articulating these markets is a strategic challenge for Swedish municipally owned waste management. - Abstract: This paper describes how the business model of two leading Swedish municipally owned solid waste management companies exposes them to four different but related markets: a political market in which their legitimacy as an organization is determined; a waste-as-material market that determines their access to waste as a process input; a technical market in which these companies choose what waste processing technique to use; and a commercial market in which they market their products. Each of these markets has a logic of its own. Managing these logics and articulating the interrelationships between these markets is a key strategic challenge for these companies.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Service Management, Lund University, Campus Helsingborg, PO Box 882, SE-251 08 Helsingborg (Sweden)
  2. Department of Environmental Strategy, Lund University, Campus Helsingborg, PO Box 882, SE-251 08 Helsingborg (Sweden)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22089911
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Waste Management
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 32; Journal Issue: 9; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0956-053X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MARKET; SOLID WASTES; SWEDEN; WASTE PROCESSING

Citation Formats

Corvellec, Herve, and Bramryd, Torleif. The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1016/J.WASMAN.2012.04.005.
Corvellec, Herve, & Bramryd, Torleif. The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2012.04.005
Corvellec, Herve, and Bramryd, Torleif. 2012. "The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.WASMAN.2012.04.005.
@article{osti_22089911,
title = {The multiple market-exposure of waste management companies: A case study of two Swedish municipally owned companies},
author = {Corvellec, Herve and Bramryd, Torleif},
abstractNote = {Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Swedish municipally owned waste management companies are active on political, material, technical, and commercial markets. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer These markets differ in kind and their demands follow different logics. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer These markets affect the public service, processing, and marketing of Swedish waste management. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Articulating these markets is a strategic challenge for Swedish municipally owned waste management. - Abstract: This paper describes how the business model of two leading Swedish municipally owned solid waste management companies exposes them to four different but related markets: a political market in which their legitimacy as an organization is determined; a waste-as-material market that determines their access to waste as a process input; a technical market in which these companies choose what waste processing technique to use; and a commercial market in which they market their products. Each of these markets has a logic of its own. Managing these logics and articulating the interrelationships between these markets is a key strategic challenge for these companies.},
doi = {10.1016/J.WASMAN.2012.04.005},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22089911}, journal = {Waste Management},
issn = {0956-053X},
number = 9,
volume = 32,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Sat Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}