Barriers to the adoption of the circular economy in the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol sector

Jesus, Gessica Mina Kim; Jugend, Daniel; Paes, Luis Alberto Bertolucci; Siqueira, Regiane Máximo; Leandrin, Matheus Artioli

doi:10.1007/s10098-021-02129-5

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“…Access to finance (AF) has evolved as a major obstacle for companies utilizing the CE business model in practice and scholarly research. Extant literature identifies the acquisition of (external) capital as a critical and well-known barrier to CEP (Iacovidou et al 2021 ; Jesus et al 2021 ), particularly for SMEs and young enterprises (Ghisetti and Montresor 2020 ; Toxopeus et al 2021 ). Informational obscurity between the organization and its potential financiers, moral hazard concerns, and high transaction costs are the root drivers of credit constraints (see Cosh et al 2009 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Manufacturing SMEs confront numerous obstacles when attempting to incorporate sustainability practices (Iacovidou et al 2021 ). Literature has presented several barriers, such as a lack of financial resources, a high initial capital cost, and a lack of expertise (Caldera et al 2019 ; Gupta et al 2020a ; Jesus et al 2021 ). Moreover, there is less consensus in the literature regarding the determinants that influence a firm’s sustainability performance (Dey et al 2020 ; Pizzi et al 2021 ; Rodríguez-Espíndola et al 2022 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the inclusion of CEP is of utmost relevance, as it can guide SME managers on how to efficiently employ financial resources to enhance the sustainability performance of businesses. Additionally, prior studies have established access to finance (AF) as a significant barrier to CE (Jesus et al 2021 ) and absorptive capacity (AC) as a crucial predictor of firms’ SP (Delmas et al 2011 ; Aboelmaged and Hashem 2019 ). However, evidence of their moderating effects on the FA-CEP and CEP-SP linkages is scant in the literature.…”

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The role of Fintech in circular economy practices to improve sustainability performance: a two-staged SEM-ANN approach

Siddik

Rahman

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Coupling the practice-based view (PBV) of firms with dynamic capabilities theory (DCT), we assess the effect of Fintech adoption (FA) on organizational sustainability performance (SP) through circular economy practices (CEP). Additionally, this research examines the moderating roles of a firm’s access to finance (AF) and absorptive capacity (AC) in the interplays between the constructs. Three hundred responses were collected from Bangladeshi manufacturing SMEs using a structured questionnaire. We examined our conceptual model using a two-staged structural equation modeling-artificial neural network (SEM-ANN) approach. The empirical findings unveiled that Fintech adoption significantly drives organizational CEP and SP and that CEP acts as a mediator between the FA and SP linkage. Furthermore, the findings also confirmed the moderating effect of AF on the FA and CEP association and the impact of AC on the CEP and SP association. Hence, this scholarship adds pivotal insights to the extant literature by establishing the roles of multiple mediators and moderators in the interplay of FA and firms’ SP. Given the paucity of primary-data-based research, this empirical study addresses the gaps in the Fintech, CE, and sustainability literature and yields crucial implications for theory and practice.

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2023

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“…Regarding the barriers derived from public policies for the transition to a circular economy, the worldwide sugar industry is distributed mainly in developing countries where key aspects for sustainability are the lack of trained human capital in the development and application of specific technologies for each cane region, for example precision agriculture, the lack of sufficient economic and financial resources for investment in infrastructure, basic services and research, the deficiency of political agreements between stakeholders and decision-makers, owners of cane fields, sugar mills, distilleries, unions, researchers to address issues such as education, research and training, land tenure, development of varieties, sustainable crop management, biofuel ethanol in transport, decent work, environmental impacts, productive diversification among many others to establish a competitive environment (Jesus et al 2021 ; Leal and Teodoro 2020 ).…”

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Bioindicators for the Sustainability of Sugar Agro-Industry

Aguilar‐Rivera

2022

Sugar Tech

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The worldwide sugar industry presents a productive inertia and a fragile sustainability due to there are marginal advances in the productivity, productive diversification, and reduction of the environmental impact in cane crop fields, sugar factories, distilleries, and non-centrifuged sugar production. The complexity of sustainability evaluation in sugar industry is highlighted by the incorporation of many criteria including both quantitative and qualitative issues, measured by different units or at least the development of standards for benchmarking. The key to successful sustainability will ultimately depend on the progress in sugarcane productivity without increasing the cultivated area and decreases the environmental impacts without the lack of coordination between public policies, stakeholders, and markets which would have benefits and wellness on social, economic, and environmental aspects. The aim of this research was to carry out a review about the sustainability frameworks, indicators, constraints, and barrier to transit the sugar industry to sustainability. The results present opportunities and strengths of sugar industry related to 2030 agenda for sustainable development and circular economy as an useful guidance to formulate strategies to maximizing the potential of the sugar industry to a sustainable biofactory.

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“…Literature reveals case studies that, under a regional scope and with regard to wastes, current regulations don't always lead to a shift towards CE. In this manner, legislation (or the absence of) was identified as one of the obstacles in this transition as in the sugarcane ethanol sector in Brazil (Jesus et al 2021), mining waste in north Macedonia (Pličanič et al 2020), or from all over the EU (Kirchherr et al 2018). In the Emilia-Romagna Region, it was demanded a practical one legislation that favours the use of waste (Sani et al 2021).…”

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Application of organic wastes to soils and legislative intricacies in a circular economy context

Arias

Pulgar

Soto

2022

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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Currently, the absence of specific regulations on soil fertilization gives rise to sectorial normative with different regional approaches regarding application conditions, quality and other conditions that reused materials must meet. The purpose of this case study in Galicia (NW Spain) is to analyse the coherence of legal texts in the application of organic waste in soils regarding a more circular economy. The context of the case study is characterized by several Directives such as the Nitrates Directive or the "out of date" Directive on sewage sludge, among others, the lack of soil quality protection regulations and the existence of different administrative levels (European Union, Member State and Region). Manures and other agriculture wastes represent the main source of wastes being vastly applied to soils without previous treatment. Other waste streams (i.e. industrial biowaste, municipal biowaste and sewage sludge) undergo treatment generating commercial fertilizers, biostabilized wastes, technosols and waste-treated products that are subject to different standards. The screening of regulations and scientific literature detected limiting situations in the recycling of organic wastes due to natural or legal issues. On the other hand, risky applications are identified due to the lack of quality requirements for waste-treated products under regional legislation, or no mandatory compliance with codes of good agricultural practices for manures and waste-treated products. Contradictory situations of legal regulations and other issues were outlined and discussed. Final considerations were outlined to promote a more effective recycling of organic wastes and the design of a suitable legislation adapted to the natural conditions of the region. Graphical abstract

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Barriers to the adoption of the circular economy in the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol sector

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

The role of Fintech in circular economy practices to improve sustainability performance: a two-staged SEM-ANN approach

The role of Fintech in circular economy practices to improve sustainability performance: a two-staged SEM-ANN approach

Bioindicators for the Sustainability of Sugar Agro-Industry

Application of organic wastes to soils and legislative intricacies in a circular economy context

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