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 +2 more
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High-Quality Cellulosic Fibers Engineered from Cotton-Elastane Textile Waste. [PDF]
BiomacromoleculesVillar L +3 more
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Circling the Archetype: Tensions Limiting the Transformation to a Circular Economy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines key tensions and the archetypal paradox that prevent the transformation to a circular economy (CE) across individual, organizational, and systems levels, problematizing CE assumptions. Tension manifestations are analyzed using a qualitative case study across eight diverse industries and geographies.
Helleke Heikkinen +5 more
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Recovery of pure PET from wool/PET/elastane textile waste through step-wise enzymatic and chemical processing. [PDF]
Waste Manag ResBoschmeier E +7 more
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Agentic AI and Circular Procurement Performance: An Empirical Study
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations that practice circular procurement in this rapidly changing world face many uncertainties. However, emerging digital technologies, such as agentic AI, can help manage resources and improve responsiveness to better serve both internal and external customers.
Surajit Bag +3 more
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Successful cultivation of edible fungi on textile waste offers a new avenue for bioremediation and potential food production. [PDF]
Sci RepHazelgrove L, Moody SC.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen +4 more
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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 +5 more
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Assessment of Potential Use of a Composite Based on Polyester Textile Waste as Packing Elements of a Trickle Bed Bioreactor. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Gloc M +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has become a major focus in energy and environmental (E&E) research, as it helps advance sustainable development, improve resource efficiency and alleviate environmental pressure. Even so, the literature is still fragmented, particularly in the CE themes it explores, the levels of analysis it adopts and the methods ...
Jahira Debbarma +2 more
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