Victoria Baagøe-Engels
Industrial Ph.D. Student
University of Southern Denmark
Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management
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Research interest
Operation and maintenance within offshore wind, Supply Chain Management, Ambidexterity
PhD - Ambidextrous O&M Capabilities in Offshore Wind Cluster
The purpose of this industrial Ph.D. is to understand and develop new knowlegde of the concept ambidexterity, which is the ability to simultaneously explorate and exploitate. The Ph.D. seeks to explore the role of ambidexterity in the different development stages for operation and maintance in the offshore wind industry.
The Industrial Ph.D. seeks to answers the research questions through three work packages
- How are the companies in operation and maintance in the offshore wind industry organized? And what have affected this?
- How and to whar extent can the role of ambidexterity affect the development stages for large companies and SME's?
- What characterize the companies that are superior in handling exploitation and exploration contrary to those that are not?
Method
The methods used in this industrial Ph.D. to create the empirical foundation
are:
- A document- and literature study to collect existing research and knowledge on how operation and maintenance in the offshore wind industry is structured and organized
- Explorative case studies to research and identify the role of ambidexterity in business development
- A survey approach to evaluate and identify what characterizes the necessary factors for success
- A Delphi study to identify what the experts from the offshore wind industry charaterizes as the necessary factors for success.
Empirical Foundation
The method used is
- A document- and literature study to provide an overview of the operation and maintance offshore wind industry and its development, to identify the drivers that shape and change the development
- A analysis through a explorative case study of 4-6 companies operating in operation and maintenance in the offshore wind industry, which will research the term ambidexterity
- A survey and Delphi study that will identify what the specific characteristics are for the companies that are superior in handling operation and development in contrary to those that are not
Theoretical Frame
The theoretical frame for this Ph.D is:
- Operation and Maintenance
- Ambidexterity
- Development Blocks
- Supply Chain Management