Applying a thematic analysis in identifying the role of circular economy in sustainable supply chain practices

Mirzaei, Shima; Shokouhyar, Sajjad

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“…The first group examined the implementation of sustainable development goals (SDG) (Weerasooriya et al, 2021 ; Phillips, 2021 ; Udemba, 2022 ), and environmental conservation policies (Z. Wang et al, 2022 ; Zolin et al, 2020 ). The second group explored the adoption of a circular economy (di Vaio et al, 2023 ; Mirzaei & Shokouhyar, 2022 ; Rasool et al, 2022 ), environmental innovations (Tiwari & Thakur, 2021 ; Weimin et al, 2022 ). The third group assesses corporate sustainability (de Lima et al, 2022 ; Ellili & Nobanee, 2022 ; Rahman et al, 2022 ; Xu et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Zolin et al, 2020). The second group explored the adoption of a circular economy (di Vaio et al, 2023;Mirzaei & Shokouhyar, 2022;Rasool et al, 2022), environmental innovations (Tiwari & Thakur, 2021;Weimin et al, 2022). The third group Fig.…”

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“…In the management area, studies have examined the circular economy (di Vaio et al, 2023 ; Mirzaei & Shokouhyar, 2022 ; Rasool et al, 2022 ), life cycle analysis (Hayek et al, 2021 ; Khaddour, 2022 ; Sharma et al, 2022 ) while only one study investigated the impact of sustainability disclosure on corporate performance (Ellili & Nobanee, 2022 ). Through a bibliometric analysis, this study was not only able to identify the most frequent sustainability topics published in Environment, Development and Sustainability , but also detect various gaps in the literature and propose paths for future research.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

Ellili

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study aims to highlight the current trends in the literature on sustainability by applying a bibliometric review of papers on sustainability published in Environment, Development and Sustainability . Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative approach to bibliographic materials that highlights the core theoretical and empirical research on a specific field. In addition, it allows the classification of previous studies. Previous bibliometric reviewers were limited to sustainability papers in specific industries, while this study considers all papers on sustainability to provide further insights on overall sustainability topics. The analysis was based on keyword cartography analysis, bibliometric authors’ citation analysis, bibliometric papers’ citation analysis, bibliometric references’ co-citation analysis, journals’ co-citation cartography, and qualitative content analysis. A total of 997 articles on sustainability were reviewed. Bibliometric analysis was performed using VOSviewer and content analysis was performed using WordStat. Six major clusters were identified: environmental sustainability, sustainable development, urban sustainability, ecological footprint, environment, and climate change. In addition, the results reveal that Environment, Development and Sustainability has increasingly experienced important growth in research papers and citations, reflecting its significant contribution to the sustainability research field. In addition, this study presents recommendations for future research opportunities in the field of sustainability. The findings of this study have implications for sustainability research, such as the assessment of environmental and social sustainability in multinational institutional contexts and across industries as well as the examination of the impact of environmental and social sustainability on different corporate aspects and decisions. This study is the only one to review the key topics on which papers published in Environment, Development and Sustainability are focused and can be largely used for sustainability practices. This study provides an overview of how the literature on sustainability has developed, as well as a summary of the most productive authors, along with countries, organizations, and journal sources. This offers an opportunity for future research to focus on this topic.

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Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

Ellili

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…By contrast, Shahidzadeh and Shokouhyar (2022) provided evidence on the leveraging power of SM to convert supply chains into consumer-centric circular supply chains within the electronics industry. BFJ Mirzaei and Shokouhyar (2022), instead, highlighted that in the mobile industry, customer attention is mainly focused on environmental practices rather than other, triple-bottom-line dimensions. Giudice et al (2020) investigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the AFS from a CE perspective, highlighting that the approach to CE topics changed before (focused on food safety issues), during (focusing on food security issues) and after (focused on food sustainability and circular management), the pandemic.…”

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Social media on the route to circular economy transition from a dialogic perspective: evidence from the agri-food industry

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Malandrino

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PurposeThis paper investigates circular economy communications and stakeholder dialogic engagement with circular economy posts published by European agri-food companies on Twitter from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the use of social media as a dialogic tool to activate circular economy engagement in order to involve all supply-chain actors on the route to a circular transition.Design/methodology/approachA coding framework based on the reclassification of the Glossary of Circular Economy, according to a 4-R paradigm (reduce, reuse, recycle and recover), was developed for the analysis. All tweets published by a sample of European agri-food companies, starting from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic until data extraction, were collected, purified and analysed.FindingsAgri-food companies showed a higher level of engagement through social media, even if mainly focused on “recycling” and “general circular economy” issues. In general, awareness among social network users of the need to be part of the circular economy transition emerged. Moreover, the highest percentage of posts published by the companies' Twitter accounts was informative rather than interactive. In addition, starting with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the circular economy has arisen as a central topic of debate and a driver for the rethinking process of the agri-food business community.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this research represents the first study focused on circular economy engagement through social media from the company perspective in the agri-food industry.

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“…A search on Google Trends [1] reveals that the search interest has been growing steadily since 2012, reaching its peak in 2021. The theme also crosses other major topics, such as sustainability Awan and Sroufe (2022), Mirzaei and Shokouhyar (2022) and Industry 4.0 Awan et al . (2021).…”

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Twitter and the circular economy: examining the public discourse

Mastroeni

Naldi

Vellucci

2023

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PurposeThough the circular economy (CE) is a current buzzword, this still lacks a precise definition. In the absence of a clear notion of what that term includes, actions taken by the government and companies may not be well informed. In particular, those actions need to consider what people mean when people talk about the CE, either to refocus people's decisions or to undertake a more effective communications strategy.Design/methodology/approachSince people voice people's opinions mainly through social media nowadays, special attention has to be paid to discussions on those media. In this paper, the authors focus on Twitter as a popular social platform to deliver one's thoughts quickly and fast. The authors' research aim is to get the perceptions of people about the CE. After collecting more than 100,000 tweets over 16 weeks, the authors analyse those tweets to understand the public discussion about the CE. The authors conduct a frequency analysis of the most recurring words, including the words' association with other words in the same context and categorise them into a set of topics.FindingsThe authors show that the discussion focuses on the usage of resources and materials that heavily endanger sustainability, i.e. carbon and plastic and the harmful habit of wasting. On the other hand, the two most common good practices associated with the CE and sustainability emerge as recycling and reuse (the latter being mentioned far less). Also, the business side of the CE appears to be relevant.Research limitations/implicationsThe outcome of this analysis can drive suitable communication strategies by which companies and governments interested in the development of the CE can understand what is actually discussed on social media and call for the attention.Originality/valueThis paper addresses the lack of a standard definition the authors highlighted in the Introduction. The results confirm that people understand CE by looking both at CE's constituent activities and CE's expected consequences, namely the reduction of waste, the transition to a green economy free of plastic and other pollutants and the improvement of the world climate.

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Applying a thematic analysis in identifying the role of circular economy in sustainable supply chain practices

Cited by 23 publications

References 84 publications

Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

Social media on the route to circular economy transition from a dialogic perspective: evidence from the agri-food industry

Twitter and the circular economy: examining the public discourse

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