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How circular is the circular economy? Analysing the implementation of circular economy in organisations [PDF]
Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020 AbstractCircular economy (CE) has become one of the most recent ways to address environmental sustainability. CE activities focus exclusively on one of three levels (macro level, meso level and micro level). The majority of CE research has focused on the macro and meso levels, whereas research on the micro level has been limited.
Maria Barreiro-Gen, Rodrigo Lozano
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The emergence of digital transformation in the automotive industry - Industry 4.0 in Hungary
Competitio, 2022 It is no exaggeration to say that the digital transformation can be seen as both a paradigm shifts and a real technological revolution (Perez, 2010, Mergel, et al., 2019).
Nikoletta Tóth-Kaszás +3 more
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, 2022 This contribution features the submission of one of the most important sustainability keywords to Springer's Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. It provides a definition and an introduction to the circular economy (CE). It describes key policies and regulatory interventions that are meant to promote the CE agenda.
Camilleri, Mark Anthony +2 more
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Bioplastics for a circular economy [PDF]
Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 Bioplastics - typically plastics manufactured from bio-based polymers - stand to contribute to more sustainable commercial plastic life cycles as part of a circular economy, in which virgin polymers are made from renewable or recycled raw materials. Carbon-neutral energy is used for production and products are reused or recycled at their end of life ...
Jan-Georg Rosenboom +2 more
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This chapter explores the circular economy and its implications for supply chain management. The chapter begins with a brief introduction to the circular economy, focusing on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s butterfly diagram as a visual representation of the circular economy. The linear economy is contrasted with the circular economy, which represents
Marileena Mäkelä, Tiina Onkila
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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2021 This work aims to describe and analyze the new socio economic phenomenon of waste-based circularity. To describe this process of recovery and transformation of waste, which represents the basis of circular economy, it is necessary to understand the complex articulation of the production of goods and materials, their yield and their capacity of ...
Senatore, Gianluca, Teofili, Simone
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Metaverse and circular economy
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 2023 The revolutionary concepts of the Metaverse and circular economy are poised to reshape the future of society, academia and all business sectors. The Metaverse as a digital realm promises to transform peoples' way of life, while circular economy offers a sustainable and regenerative approach to economic growth.
Papamichael, Iliana +6 more
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Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, 2020 Circular Economy has emerged in the last years as an industrial pattern that rethinks the entire design and production cycle of products and goods, to obtain the minimal environmental impact and maximize the energy efficiency. This pattern creates product transformation cycles, that allow to re-use parts and renew energy, defining Circular Economy ...
Marco Gribaudo +3 more
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Digital age business model innovation for sustainability in University Industry Collaboration Model [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 This study aims to investigate a digitalization-related business model as a result from the university-SME collaboration. The SME of the case study (Preventos Informatics Ltd) specializes in water distribution systems in industrial scale, telemetry, and ...
Happonen Ari +4 more
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Toward a preliminary research agenda for the circular economy adoption in Africa
Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023 Circular economy (CE) research plays an important role in accelerating the CE transition globally and is an essential tool to contribute to climate change adaptation.
Elke Nijman-Ross +5 more
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