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Circular Innovations in Complex Systems: A Blueprint of Four Design Archetypes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular innovations (CI), defined as the redesign of products, services or practices to minimise waste, reduce resource use and regenerate natural systems, are essential for advancing the circular economy. Despite growing recognition, their deployment in systems of linked parts with unpredictable interactions (complex systems) remains limited
Sophie Führer, Lucas Miehé, Catharina Bening   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Managing Innovation to Governing Value: Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property in the Sustainable Business Model

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of intellectual property (IP) in promoting or hindering sustainable innovation now forms a topical issue in innovation management. Its role in the sustainable business model remains imperfectly understood however, creating a simplified view of IP in relation to corporate sustainable development. Hence, this study sought to examine how
Sarah van Santen
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Sustainability, Health and Social Wellbeing and Agility in Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0 Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industry 4.0 is pushing the triple bottom line toward a necessary evolution: Society 5.0. Achieving this agile future depends on environmental sustainability, health and social wellbeing (H&SW). Therefore, this study,examines how environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies operationalise the psychological, social and physical ...
Arjun Chaudhuri, Mahak Sharma, Devrim Murat Yazan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding the Circular Economy Job Market in the EU: A Quantitative and Comparative Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is increasingly promoted as a pathway to sustainable development, yet systematic evidence on the structure of the CE labor market remains limited. Little is known about how CE‐related job opportunities are distributed across countries, which job characteristics dominate this market, and how such patterns compare with ...
Pavlos Fafalios, Theodoros Daglis, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing Circular Supply Chain Management: Scale Development and Empirical Validation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study addresses the conceptual fragmentation and the lack of a measurement tool in circular supply chain management (CSCM), a field in which confusion with traditional sustainability strategies limits operational progress. The objective is to develop and validate a measurement instrument capable of capturing the transition toward the ...
José Moyano‐Fuentes, Sebastián Bruque‐Cámara, Noelia García‐Buendía, María Isabel Roldán‐Bravo, Diéssica de Oliveira‐Dias, Juan Manuel Maqueira‐Marín   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic ESG Priorities and Materiality Assessments: Evidence From Hong Kong Listed Fashion and Textile Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms increasingly rely on ESG materiality assessments to prioritise sustainability issues under heightened stakeholder scrutiny. Yet the strategic consequences of materiality beyond firm‐level disclosure remain underexplored. This study examines how materiality assessments shape ESG prioritisation at the industry level using sustainability ...
Shiqi Mai, Magnum M. L. Lam, Christina W. Y. Wong, Calvin Y. M. Lam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of external and internal geogrid confinement of reinforced concrete columns

Case Studies in Construction Materials
Geogrid is a geosynthetic material commonly used for soil stability purposes in road embankments and reinforced earth walls due to its tensile reinforcing capability.
Ruba H. Bashir, Bilal S. Hamad, Ghassan R. Chehab   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are SMEs Claiming to Be Circular, Actually Circular? An Empirical Study on the Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Circular Economy Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy is a key paradigm for ecological and ethical transition, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Although small and medium‐sized enterprises are pivotal in advancing the circular economy, the implementation of circular economy practices remains limited, with a focus on less impactful practices such as recycling and ...
Marta Negri, Alessandra Neri, Enrico Cagno, Vikas Kumar, Anabela Soares   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamics‐of‐Value‐in‐Consumption of Recycled Textile Materials

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate how the perceived value of recycled textile materials evolves across the consumption cycle, a key issue for recycling‐based strategies seeking to close the loop in the fashion industry. We employ a qualitative design combining an exploratory study and a longitudinal study with three interview waves, in which participants ...
Edith de Lamballerie, Valérie Guillard
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque, Saadia Irfan, Linh Thi Tue Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source