Circular Economy and Management Theory: Developing Theoretical Underpinnings for an Emergent Concept

Chapardar, Hadi; Bansal, Pratima; Howard‐Grenville, Jennifer; Albareda, Laura; Ashton, Weslynne; Kennedy, Steven; Paquin, Raymond L.; Fischer, Aglaia; Nogueira, André; Pascucci, Stefano; Patala, Samuli; Tilleman, Suzanne G.

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2019.15939symposium

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“…Thus far, most CE-related studies have appeared in journals within the Environmental Studies and Green & Sustainable Science & Technology domains, specifically in journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Journal of Industrial Ecology. In business and management, CE is still an emerging concept (Albareda et al, 2019), and the scholarly work in this domain requires an initial synthesis. Our purpose is to provide such synthesis by studying how business and management scholars are framing CE and exploring the very assumptions that guide their framing.…”

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Framing Circular Economy: A Problematizing Review of the Assumptions

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This paper reviews the diagnostic, motivational and prognostic circular economy framing of business and management scholars and makes the assumptions embedded in their framing explicit benefiting from a problematizing review. The review demonstrates various in-house assumptions about the circular economy with emphasis business models, business case, circular economy-corporate sustainability relationship, root metaphor assumptions about circularity, industrial relationships resembling that of biological metabolisms, and waste, finally ideological assumptions of natural capitalism that guide scholarly thinking about growth, profit maximization, consumption, ownership. The paper discusses these assumptions' implications for the growing circular economy literature within business and management and opens this domain with new conversations drawing on ecological economics and industrial ecology.

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“…Studying scholars' framing of CE is crucial at this early stage of theorizing (Albareda et al, 2019). Because scholars identify problems that create the need for CE (diagnostic framing), motivate other stakeholders to take action (motivational framing) and offer possible solutions and ideas for a CE future (prognostic framing).…”

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confidence: 99%