Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics
Research within the area of aquaponics is mostly focusing on technical perspectives such as aquaculture, hydroponics, and engineering. There are also few existing commercial aquaponics businesses globally and little knowledge about how aquaponic business model develop in practice. This study’s aim w...
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| author | Björkén, Sofia Bystedt, Elin |
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| description | Research within the area of aquaponics is mostly focusing on technical perspectives such as aquaculture, hydroponics, and engineering. There are also few existing commercial aquaponics businesses globally and little knowledge about how aquaponic business model develop in practice. This study’s aim was to examine contextual factors that enable and inhibit developments of aquaponic business model. The purpose was to create in-depth insights on how aquaponic business model are developed in practice and what factors that affect the development towards a circular bio-economy. The unit of analysis was the Swedish company Peckas Tomater. A qualitative methodology was chosen and it had an inductive approach. A case study was conducted with five semi-structured interviews.
This study’s major conclusions were that the most significant internal factors that enabled the development of Peckas Tomater’s business model towards circular bio-economy were key persons, Pecka Nygårds knowledge, and internal culture. The most significant external enabling factor was the mature market. Difficulty to find key persons and energy consumption was the two most significant internal constraining factors while legislations were the most significant external constraining factor.
It could be stated that Peckas Tomater potentially can be seen as a business that contributes to a circular economy and circular bio-economy since they use the latest technology regarding aquaponics, only uses renewable energy, have excluded plastic, and is seen to create positive societal impacts. Aquaponics have therefore the potential of making food production more sustainable due to the closed circular system that enables reuse of materials. However, it could be argued that aquaponics cannot be the only solution. |
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| spelling | RepoSLU149302020-06-04T12:17:44Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14930/ Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics Björkén, Sofia Bystedt, Elin Agricultural economics and policies Research within the area of aquaponics is mostly focusing on technical perspectives such as aquaculture, hydroponics, and engineering. There are also few existing commercial aquaponics businesses globally and little knowledge about how aquaponic business model develop in practice. This study’s aim was to examine contextual factors that enable and inhibit developments of aquaponic business model. The purpose was to create in-depth insights on how aquaponic business model are developed in practice and what factors that affect the development towards a circular bio-economy. The unit of analysis was the Swedish company Peckas Tomater. A qualitative methodology was chosen and it had an inductive approach. A case study was conducted with five semi-structured interviews. This study’s major conclusions were that the most significant internal factors that enabled the development of Peckas Tomater’s business model towards circular bio-economy were key persons, Pecka Nygårds knowledge, and internal culture. The most significant external enabling factor was the mature market. Difficulty to find key persons and energy consumption was the two most significant internal constraining factors while legislations were the most significant external constraining factor. It could be stated that Peckas Tomater potentially can be seen as a business that contributes to a circular economy and circular bio-economy since they use the latest technology regarding aquaponics, only uses renewable energy, have excluded plastic, and is seen to create positive societal impacts. Aquaponics have therefore the potential of making food production more sustainable due to the closed circular system that enables reuse of materials. However, it could be argued that aquaponics cannot be the only solution. Den forskning gällande akvaponi som publicerats har främst utgått utifrån ett tekniskt perspektiv, som till exempel vattenkulturen, hydroponi och det tekniska systemet. Det finns dessutom få befintliga kommersiella akvaponiska företag globalt och väldigt lite kunskap gällande hur akvaponiska affärsmodeller utvecklas i praktiken. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka kontextuella faktorer som möjliggör och hämmar utvecklingen av akvaponiska affärsmodeller. Syftet är att skapa en fördjupad förståelse för hur akvaponiska affärsmodeller utvecklas i praktiken och vilka faktorer som påverkar utvecklingen mot en cirkulär bioekonomi. Det svenska företaget Peckas Tomater var studiens utgångspunkt varvid en kvalitativ metod valdes med ett induktivt tillvägagångssätt. En fallstudie genomfördes med fem halvstrukturerade intervjuer. De främsta slutsatserna från studien var att de viktigaste interna faktorerna som möjliggjorde utvecklingen av Peckas Tomaters affärsmodell mot en cirkulär bio-ekonomi var nyckelpersoner, Pecka Nygårds kunskap och den interna kulturen. Den viktigaste externa möjliggörande faktorn var den mogna marknaden. Svårigheten att hitta nyckelpersoner och energiförbrukningen var de två viktigaste interna faktorerna som begränsade utvecklingen medan lagstiftningen var den viktigaste externa begränsningsfaktorn. Peckas Tomater kan potentiellt anses vara ett företag som bidrar till en cirkulär ekonomi och cirkulär bio-ekonomi eftersom de använder den senaste tekniken inom akvaponi, endast använder förnybar energi, har uteslutit plast och anses skapa positiva samhällsekonomiska effekter. Akvaponiska odlingar har därför potentialen att göra livsmedelsproduktionen mer hållbar på grund av det stängda cirkulära systemet som möjliggör återanvändning av material. Det kan dock hävdas att akvaponiska odlingar inte kan vara den enda lösningen. 2019-08-22 Second cycle, A2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14930/11/bjorken_s_bystedt_e_190819.pdf Björkén, Sofia and Bystedt, Elin, 2019. Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics : a case study of Peckas Tomater. Second cycle, A2E. Uppsala: (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/OID-510.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-10851 eng |
| spellingShingle | Agricultural economics and policies Björkén, Sofia Bystedt, Elin Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title | Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title_full | Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title_fullStr | Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title_short | Contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| title_sort | contextual factors influencing the development of a circular business model in aquaponics |
| topic | Agricultural economics and policies |
| url | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14930/ https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/14930/ |