The transportation sector is undergoing a significant shift towards electrification, driven by sustainability challenges and battery electric vehicle (BEV) technology advancements. This transition also leads to a convergence of transport and energy industries, introducing new dynamics and creating new business opportunities in these sectors. Such changes have extensive implications not only for single firms but for entire ecosystems as these adapt to new technologies, activities, and business models. This study introduces the concept of Industry-Converging Ecosystems, where traditional industrial boundaries become less distinct, requiring collaboration among unfamiliar participants across various industries. This paper investigates the tensions between value creation and value capture and control in such ecosystems through a case study of an innovative electric charging system for buses in V & auml;ster & aring;s, Sweden. The findings advance ecosystem research by (1) introducing the industry-converging ecosystem concept, (2) revealing two sources for business model tensions stemming from monetisation uncertainties and resource competition, and (3) demonstrating the lack of clarity in ecosystem control caused by limited influence over business models and diminished legitimacy due to their newness.

The electrification of heavy-duty transport is a critical pathway towards reducing emissions in Sweden’s forestry sector, a major contributor to national CO2 output. However, the adoption of battery electric trucks in this context remains limited, and the transition poses significant challenges for existing actors and newcomers. This paper investigates how diverse actors within the forestry transport ecosystem interpret the electrification transition and its implications for business model development. Drawing on empirical data - comprising seven experimental sites, two workshops, and 17 stakeholder interviews - this study foregrounds the role of interpretation and sensemaking in the early stages of a complex sustainability transition. The findings reveal that electrification is perceived not as an incremental change but as a radical innovation requiring cross-actor learning, new partnerships, and ecosystem-level coordination. Actors face strategic and operational uncertainty, particularly around value capture, data sharing, and infrastructure ownership, while also engaging in collaborative exploration of new roles and opportunities. By highlighting the interpretive processes shaping business model adaptation, this study contributes to the literature on sustainability transitions and business model innovation. It also offers practical guidance for managers aiming to navigate uncertainty, foster collaborative innovation, and co-create value in evolving industrial ecosystems.

This paper explores practices associated with involving customers in the pricing process of new digital offerings in a business-to-business context (B2B), including the degree and timing of engagement, as well as the related challenges. The scientific contribution is related to testing and innovative pricing of digital offerings used in production, manufacturing, and construction contexts, and four pricing tests in four different organizations are presented and analyzed. Data were collected in a multifaceted approach using a diverse set of information sources, including semi structured interviews, workshops, internal documents, and email conversations. Results show that traditional pricing practices and product logic mind-sets are hard to break andit's difficult to create a mind-set focused on values. The results indicate that a key to increasing and achieving a deeper degree of customer involvement in B2B-context is to engage the sales organizations.

The paper presents the first results from a newly started project with the aim of meeting the challenge of transforming industry and transport towards a sustainable future; the research project TREE - Transition to Efficient Electrified Forestry Transport. The project includes new actors and develops sustainable multi-business ecosystems that can continue to accelerate electrification after the initial knowledge- building and experimenting phase, where sustained value creation relies on developing each members' business model. Therefore, this paper explores and analyzes the challenges for actors' multi-business model development within a knowledge ecosystem in the pursuit of transforming heavy forestry transport. A workshop with all project partners has been conducted, and interviews have been performed with eight parties covering central actors in collaborative networks for creating a new system. The challenges for the creation and development of value-offering for actors in the studied evolving knowledge ecosystem for electrification of the forest industry include technical, economical, changes in roles and collaboration, logistics, and internal organizational challenges.

This Research Full Paper explores different implementations of and teachers’ experiences from challenge-driven education and similar learning approaches in engineering education and other higher education contexts. Through an action research approach key concerns among the teachers and similarities and differences between the studied courses can be identified. The study highlights the potential in these learning approaches, as means for breaking and going beyond the traditional boundaries of higher education, enhancing and cross-fertilizing engineering education with other disciplines, and empowering students both as professionals and humans. It also indicates potential barriers and in-built tensions that are crucial to handle for successful implementation. The study further shows on great opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration between teachers from diverse contexts and backgrounds. The findings are discussed in relation to research within domains such as sustainability education, transformative learning, and futures studies, and opportunities for further research and development are outlined.

One of the barriers for companies to implement circular economy (CE) principles is creating a portfolio of CE projects. Circularity indicators can evaluate circularity for managing products in circularity perspective. However, existing circularity indicators are either lacking a holistic facet of CE or too complicated for practical usage, which could be barriers for practitioners to manage a CE project portfolio. The aim of this study is to develop a highly intelligible CE portfolio management tool to visualize circularity calculated by circularity indicators with holistic criteria. The CE portfolio mapping tool was built through semi-structured interviews with a case company, identifying three main requirements for general CE portfolio management tools and revealing four contributions of the developed tool. This study contributes to integrating practitioner view into the research context of circularity indicators and taking first step toward further research in CE portfolio management.

Sustainable development requires disruptive changes and radical innovations, and the capability to deliver this in relation to adapt to a sustainable development is needed in mature large industrial companies. Integration between sustainability and business development is needed, which the Circular Economy model offers. Circular Economy is little implemented in practice, and in the present paper barriers to a transition to Circular Economy is identified. Barriers are financial, structural, operational, attitudinal and technological. They are also, as analyzed in relation to innovation management, characterized by a need to increase integration between a number of different perspectives and domains in industry.