{"id":71283,"date":"2025-03-26T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiwi.rub.de\/?p=71283"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:50:01","slug":"leonie-schlueter-successfully-defends-her-dissertation-at-aalborg-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/leonie-schlueter-successfully-defends-her-dissertation-at-aalborg-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonie Schl\u00fcter successfully defends her dissertation at Aalborg University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10<sup>th<\/sup>, research associate <a href=\"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/personen\/leonie-schlueter\/\">Leonie Schl\u00fcter<\/a> successfully defended her PhD thesis titled <em>\u201cDesigning Systems for Sustainability: An Explorative Analysis of the Orchestrator Role in Industrial Ecosystems Evolution and Sustainable Business Model Innovation\u201d<\/em> at Aalborg University, Denmark. She conducted her PhD project at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business.aau.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Aalborg University Business School<\/a> in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/portofaalborg.dk\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Port of Aalborg A\/S<\/a>, under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/vbn.aau.dk\/da\/persons\/ang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Assoc. Prof. Allan N. Gjerding<\/a> and co-supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/vbn.aau.dk\/da\/persons\/lonek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Prof. Lone K\u00f8rn\u00f8v<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The thesis investigated how secondary stakeholders, such as local governments, port authorities, and universities, can help drive sustainability transitions by taking on a dual orchestrator role: supporting firms in developing sustainable business models and driving the evolution of industrial ecosystems. This dual role has received little academic attention to date.<\/p>\n<p>By viewing both sustainable business models and industrial ecosystems through the lens of orchestration, the project expanded the thin overlap between the emerging sustainable business model literature and the established industrial ecosystem field. The research was based on a strong engagement with practice and a triangulation of qualitative methods, including case studies of the Port of Aalborg and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenlab.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">GreenLab<\/a> in Denmark. The results identify orchestration activities, recurring patterns, and competencies, and introduce a process model for the evolution of industrial ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>These findings offer practical guidance for strengthening collaboration and sustainability in regional economies. Public actors can use these insights to design more effective support programs and policies\u2014and to actively shape sustainability transitions through orchestration.<\/p>\n<p>The PhD defense began with a presentation of the research, followed by a constructive discussion with the assessment committee: Assoc. Prof. Jesper Lindgaard Christensen, Prof. Jenny Palm, and Prof. Lori DiVito. After the questions from the assessment committee and the audience were addressed, the committee convened and shared their final assessment of the PhD thesis. The event concluded with a reception to celebrate the successful defense.<\/p>\n<p>Leonie Schl\u00fcter is currently continuing her research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models.<\/p>\n<p>Find more information about the defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.aau.dk\/ph-d-forsvar-leonie-schluter-e131360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>. You can find and read more about the studies that entered the PhD thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Pv_th6kAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Picture: Leonie Schl\u00fcter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 10th, research associate Leonie Schl\u00fcter successfully defended her PhD thesis titled \u201cDesigning Systems for Sustainability: An Explorative Analysis of the Orchestrator Role in Industrial Ecosystems Evolution and Sustainable Business Model Innovation\u201d at Aalborg University, Denmark. She conducted her PhD project at Aalborg University Business School in collaboration with Port of Aalborg A\/S, under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":71279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1582],"tags":[],"forschungsgruppen-zuordnung":[],"zuordnung":[],"kompetenzfeld":[1679],"zuordnung-lehrstuhle":[1738],"class_list":["post-71283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","kompetenzfeld-ceit-en","zuordnung-lehrstuhle-entrepreneurship-and-innovative-business-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71284,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71283\/revisions\/71284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"forschungsgruppen-zuordnung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forschungsgruppen-zuordnung?post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"zuordnung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zuordnung?post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"kompetenzfeld","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kompetenzfeld?post=71283"},{"taxonomy":"zuordnung-lehrstuhle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiwi-03-26.kreativbuero-zwei.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zuordnung-lehrstuhle?post=71283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}