A framework proposal for innovation network orchestration in the electric vehicle industry of Iran

Electric vehicle technology is a paradigm shift in the automobile industry and has a huge transformation capacity in the transportation industry, which requires a lot of investment. Therefore, there is no other way to develop this technology than the network collaboration. The main question of this study is to achieve the appropriate framework including roles and capabilities required for the innovation network orchestration considering the Iran electric vehicles industry. For this purpose, by using the existing literature of the orchestration, the role implementation capabilities required by the orchestrtior body were specified. Using case study approach in the Iranian car industry and the actors associated with the electric vehicle, semi-structured interviews were held with ten field experts; and comparative qualitative content analysis to establish a relationship between the capabilities and statements of research experts; and analysed by Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) in order to structure the complex problem of the capabilities configuration of a network orchestrator. Finally, present the network of twelve capabilities themes and a structured model including twelve recognized orchestrator capabilities in the electric vehicle industry is proposed in six levels. The most essential and fundamental capabilities are knowledge protection and knowledge processing and knowledge protection. In addition, the "power of influence - dependency" graph analysis is also used to explain the relation of capabilities.