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A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources

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  • Hultman, Johan
  • Corvellec, Hervé
  • Jerneck, Anne
  • Arvidsson, Susanne
  • Ekroos, Johan
  • Gustafsson, Clara
  • Lundh Nilsson, Fay
  • Wahlberg, Niklas

Abstract

In times of major global interconnectedness and environmental change, the pressure to identify, create, and exploit new resources is certain to intensify. Given that there are unavoidable trade-offs, conflicts, and arenas for violence involved when increasingly more material and immaterial things are turned into resources, we call for explicit research on the very process – a process that we label resourcification. The concept of resourcification shifts attention from essentialist queries about the nature of resources to a focus on the social processes through which things are turned into resources. In search of a better understanding of resources in the Anthropocene and, in particular, an understanding about the way resources emerge and are used, resourcification offers a new conceptual framework that allows for a systematic search for knowledge about the diversity of contexts, conditions, modes, and temporalities of resourcification. This Resourcification Manifesto offers a theoretical and empirical framework for a radical and disruptive approach to innovation, sustainability, and management studies and policies.

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  • Hultman, Johan & Corvellec, Hervé & Jerneck, Anne & Arvidsson, Susanne & Ekroos, Johan & Gustafsson, Clara & Lundh Nilsson, Fay & Wahlberg, Niklas, 2021. "A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(9).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:respol:v:50:y:2021:i:9:s0048733321000986
    DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2021.104297
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