Thayla Zomer

Fundação Dom Cabral | FDC

The research field of product-service systems (PSS) has experienced rapid growth since it emerged at the end of the 80s. Consequently, the conceptual structure of the PSS research field has expanded, and this phenomenon has driven novel research topics and future trends. This study analyzes the evolution and conceptual structure of the PSS research...

This paper addresses difficulties among the Brazilian scholarly community in industrial engineering (IE) when conducting case-based research. It also provides further recommendations to increase methodological rigour. The paper contributes to the practice of case research by providing a historical perspective of research methodology in Brazil and o...

A product-service system (PSS) aims to improve the profitability and competitiveness of companies, generate superior value for customers, and contribute to sustainability. However, despite those benefits, manufacturing companies still find it difficult to structure their business models as PSS, especially regarding the design of sustainable busines...

Purpose Product-service systems (PSS) are regarded as highly sustainable solutions. However, studies identifying and comparing the sustainable potential of product-service offerings by considering the three sustainability dimensions are still scarce. This paper aims to benchmark and analyse the sustainable potential of a use-oriented PSS, showing t...

Corporate climate action is critical in supporting the transition towards a low-carbon economy. This paper explores what design practices have been adopted by manufacturing companies that have committed to science-based emission reduction targets and are making progress towards those targets. We contribute to the existing literature by providing em...

Reform and modernisation of the construction sector are ongoing concerns to governments in numerous countries, due to the low rate of innovation and productivity in the sector. Policy interventions, particularly those associated with digital technologies, are being used to promote innovation and transformation of the sector. Digitising building inf...

Most of the existing research on BIM implementation and benefits realisation has departed from a technocentric perspective and instead promoted the belief that the benefits of using BIM technologies are an inevitable outcome of adoption in and of itself. Recently, scholars have acknowledged that important links between implementation practices and...

This book is about the built environment, but what does that mean? It’s the buildings and places between where all of us live, work, play, learn, heal and travel. It’s the stage on which the dramas of our lives play out. If it’s doing its job well maybe you don’t even notice it, but if it works against you it’s often all you can think about. It’s t...

We are living through a convergence of crises. In 2020, when the ongoing Covid-19 global pandemic spread across the world, it brought economic instability in its wake. Sectors of the built environment (BE), among others, were hit hard by a public health crisis followed swiftly by an unprecedented economic downturn. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Pa...

Four Futures, One Choice provokes us with a future lens enabling us to view, with clarity and detail, four scenarios of what Britain could look like in 2040, depending upon the decisions that are made now, in these unprecedented times of opportunity.

Most existing research on built environment policy has focused on the independent variable-policy formulation-and assumed that the prescriptions that follow are readily accepted by a multitude of stakeholders. Less focus has been placed on the dependent variable-the projects where those policies are applied. Studies on practical implementation of n...

Project-management scholars have acknowledged that more research should consider institutional theories in order to take into account the broader environment in which projects are situated. One existing gap in the project-management literature revolves around understanding the responses that projects develop to cope with institutional pressures fro...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been widely seen as bringing a paradigm change to the construction industry. However, scholars have acknowledged that neither widespread BIM implementation nor the envisaged systemic changes within the sector have taken place. Despite acknowledging that the industry’s conditions and embedded contexts shape i...

Purpose Drawing on the literature on dynamic capabilities and digital transformation, this paper conceptualises and investigates the relevant antecedents of an essential capability for digital transformation – the digital transforming capability – and its effect on the competitive advantage of firms. Design/methodology/approach A framework with ind...

In this study, we analyse digital transformation at the inter-organisational level (i.e. construction projects context) and conceptualise it as a dynamic change process that people enact. More specifically, we investigate the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in construction projects, adopting a practice-based approach to explo...

Using a practice lens, we investigate the role of project team members’ actions in constructing the social order and aligning inter-organisational elements to achieve digital congruence when implementing a digital and systemic innovation in construction projects, namely Building Information Modelling (BIM). We use a theory-building qualitative rese...

O estudo de caso é na abordagem utilizada em algumas áreas da engenharia, que envolvem a compreensão de problemas organizacionais nas empresas, muitas vezes complexos. Na realidade, trata-se de uma abordagem valiosa para condução de pesquisas em diversas áreas do conhecimento. No entanto, o planejamento e condução dessa abordagem metodológica apres...

Drawing on empirical evidence on the differentiators of organisational digital maturity and the literature on organisational change and performance, we explore firm characteristics and identify various organisational dimensions that are determinants of a successful digital transformation. A matched-pair design is adopted in this study to examine 12...

Purpose Project portfolio management (PPM) has been recognized as critical for the productivity of research and development (R&D) investments, but empirical research on PPM use and outcomes in non-commercial R&D environments is limited. This paper investigates PPM processes and outcomes in a unique R&D context within Brazilian electric power utili...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the applicability of social life cycle assessment (SLCA) to the social impacts analysis of product-service systems (PSS). The purpose is to discuss the main challenges for this approach to comparing PSS business model alternatives and analyzing the social consequences of PSS introduction into the market. Metho...

The con­cept of cir­cu­lar­ity has been widely dis­cussed in the lit­er­a­ture, but the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the cir­cu­lar econ­omy con­cept at the mi­cro-level re­mains un­ex­plored. It is still not clear what are the an­tecedents for cir­cu­lar econ­omy im­ple­men­ta­tion at the in­dus­try level. Cleaner pro­duc­tion prin­ci­ples and prac­tices...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate Six Sigma implementation in the subsidiaries of General Electric located in Brazil. The purpose is also to explore the role of the quality culture of headquarters in overcoming common obstacles to Six Sigma implementation reported by other studies. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory survey...

Product-service systems (PSS) design raises new issues, among which the need of encompassing a life cycle perspective. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework for PSS characterization through its life cycle. The purpose is to understand the structure, the sequence, and the main characteristics of PSS life cycle phases, characteri...

O ESTUDO DE CASO É UMA DAS ABORDAGENS METODOLÓGICAS DE PESQUISA MAIS APLICADAS, ESPECIALMENTE NA ENGENHARIA DE PRODUÇÃO. NO ENTANTO, DIVERSOS DESAFIOS ESTÃO ASSOCIADOS À CONDUÇÃO DE UM ESTUDO DE CASO ROBUSTO, E TEM SIDO REPORTADO NA LITERATTURA DE GESTÃO DE OPERAÇÕES QUE MAIS RIGOR METODOLÓGICO DEVE SER CONSIDERADO NA CONDUÇÃO DE ESTUDOS DE CASO. N...

O CONCEITO DE ECONOMIA CIRCULAR TEM SIDO DISCUTIDO COMO UMA ABORDAGEM PROMISSORA RUMO À SUSTENTABILIDADE. NO ENTANTO, A INTEGRAÇÃO DE PRINCÍPIOS DE ECONOMIA CIRCULAR ÀS PRÁTICAS DE NEGÓCIO REQUER MODIFICAÇÕES EM DIVERSOS SUBSISTEMAS DAS EMPPRESAS, E A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO PRÁTICA DO CONCEITO É AINDA LIMITADA. AS CAPACIDADES (CAPABILITIES) NECESSÁRIAS PARA...

A transição para estratégias de servitização em empresas de manufatura tem sido considerada promissora para um aumento da diferenciação de produtos, crescimento de receitas e lucro e melhoria na satisfação dos clientes. Essa transição, no entanto, exige que as empresas desenvolvam novas habilidades, denominadas na literatura de “capabilitiesˮ, que...

The shift to a circular economy (CE) is associated with the need to implement innovative business models, but the adoption of circular business strategies in the industry has been limited. In fact, manufacturing companies face a range of challenges when transitioning toward such strategies, yet these challenges are rarely discussed in practice. Thi...

Abstract Product development is considered as an interdisciplinary undergraduate course with a central role in engineering education. In this sense, this paper demonstrates an experience of a product development undergraduate course based on a project-based learning (PBL) perspective. PBL has been discussed in the literature as one of the most effe...

Many manufacturers are servitizing, but the effects of this on manufacturing firms' financial performance remains unclear. Through a systematic literature review, this paper highlights what is known regarding the contingent factors that may affect the relationship between servitization and performance. The findings revealed that additional studies...

The potential for sustainability has been highlighted as one of the most important characteristics of product-service systems (PSS). Nevertheless, a PSS is not intrinsically sustainable. Methods and tools for PSS sustainability assessment should be developed to be integrated into the design process, especially in the early design phases, in order t...

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have been discussed as promising business strategies towards a circular economy (CE). However, PSS solutions are not necessarily more sustainable. PSS lifecycle management may play an important role to improve the offering and achieve sustainability benefits. Nevertheless, bottom-up issues for CE implementation in the...

The concept of circularity has been widely discussed in the literature, but the implementation of the circular economy (CE) concept at the micro-level remains unexplored. Manufacturing companies should develop new business strategies and implement new practices in the transition process towards a circular economy model at the bottom-up. Cleaner pro...

The conceptual exploration of sustainable business models (SBMs) is new in the literature, and there is still a limited understanding of how these models might look in practice. As theory development should be grounded in reality, more empirical research is needed. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by exploring how a specific type of...

During the design process of product-service systems (PSS) particular attention must be placed on sustainability, since the current models do not completely support the generation of sustainable PSS solutions. New methods to investigate PSS requirements analysis, evaluation, and conceptual design stages according to sustainability principles are ne...

This paper aims at exploring how some factors identified in the PSS and product/service innovation literature can hinder or foster sustainable PSS implementation in developing countries, since there is a lack of knowledge concerning the characteristics of PSS transition processes in different contexts. The identified factors were investigated empir...

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have been discussed as promising business models to redirect the contemporary production and consumption patterns towards sustainability. However, the research on PSS is mostly dictated by theoretical works and more empirical investigations are needed. Additionally, empirical studies that compare PSS solutions situated...

The complexity of the challenges in the water sector means that innovative solutions are required. These solutions include not only new sustainable technologies for water treatment, but also complementary innovation in business models to support the adoption of these technologies in urban areas. This paper aims to explore the role of sustainable bu...

The product-service systems (PSS) literature has demonstrated the need to understand how consumption patterns influence PSS introduction. This study investigates a result-oriented PSS for drinking water provision from the social practice theory perspective to provide insights of how approaches focused on the consumption side may be valuable for PSS...

Product-Service Systems (PSS) represent a business proposition with potential to provide a wide range of economic, environmental, and social benefits, allowing achievingthe sustainability. However, PSS does not necessarily lead to sustainable solutions and this potential must be assessed in each case. In this sense, the aim of this paper is to inve...

Os sistemas produto-serviço (PSS) têm sido discutidos como abordagens promissoras rumo à sustentabilidade. Com o crescimento das publicações que relacionam PSS e sustentabilidade nos últimos anos, a importância do tema revela a necessidade de analisar as contribuições existentes e as principais oportunidades de pesquisa. Nesse sentido, o presente t...

Os Sistemas Produto-Serviço (Product-Service Systems - PSS) têm sido amplamente discutidos como uma estratégia promissora rumo à sustentabilidade. No entanto, nem todas as soluções de PSS são soluções mais sustentáveis, e é necessário avaliar quantitativamente quanto pode ser ganho em termos ambientais, econômicos e sociais. A avaliação de ciclo de...

Product-Service Systems (PSS) represent a business proposition with the potential to reorient the current production and consumption patterns towards sustainability. Although PSS became a popular subject, PSS research is still dominated by theoretical work and more empirical investigations are required. This paper aims at analyzing two use-oriented...

Os Sistemas Produto-Serviço (PSS) representam uma proposta de negócio que permite criar novas formas de competir, gerar valor e qualidade social, com menor impacto ambiental. Para que as aplicações de PSS tenham sucesso quando implementadas é fundamental a identificação dos fatores críticos de sucesso (FCS) para esses modelos de negócio, pois, por...