Incumbent B2B manufacturing companies join forces and form collaborative networks, called consortia, aiming to increase the circularity of their products. Our research interest lies in the understanding of how the business models (BM) of the companies and the industry are affected by such...

Intro -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forest in the Alpine region in Europe -- 3. Wood products and traditional timber value chain in remote areas -- 4. Innovative actors of the forestry and wood sector and innovative examples of timber value chain -- 5. Comclusion and future outlook.

The socio-economic transformations taking place nowadays bring about the necessity to transform the currently dominating linear paradigm of economic growth. The basis for such a transformation is, first of all, the implementation of sustainable systems of production and consumption, so that they...