Circular Economy Practices and Strategies in Public Sector Organizations: An Integrative Review

Abstract

The concept of the Circular Economy (CE) is an increasingly attractive approach to tackling current sustainability challenges and facilitating a shift away from the linear “take-make-use-dispose” model of production and consumption. The public sector is a major contributor to the CE transition not only as a policy-maker but also as a significant purchaser, consumer, and user of goods and services. The circularization of the public sector itself, however, has received very little attention in CE research. In order to explore the current state of knowledge on the implementation of CE practices and strategies within Public Sector Organizations (PSOs), this research aims to develop an overview of the existing literature. The literature review was designed combining a systematic search with a complementary purposive sampling. Using organizational sustainability as a theoretical perspective, the main results showed a scattered landscape, indicating that the limited research on CE practices and strategies in PSOs has focused so far on the areas of public procurement, internal operations and processes, and public service delivery. As a result of this literature review, an organizational CE framework of a PSO is proposed providing a holistic view of a PSO as a system with organizational dimensions that are relevant for the examination and analysis of the integration process of CE practices and strategies. This innovative framework aims to help further CE research and practice to move beyond current sustainability efforts, highlighting that public procurement, strategy and management, internal processes and operations, assessment and communication, public service delivery, human resources dimensions, collaboration with other organizations, and various external contexts are important public sector areas where the implementation of CE has the potential to bring sustainability benefits.

Bridging Sustainability and Policing to Balinese Ormas Conflict: An Integrative Conceptual Framework

“…The framework is then examined concerning organization performances, strategies, and core values. This new policing framework incorporates different concepts having similar arrangements with sustainability structures involving circular economy (Geissdoerfer et al, 2017), sustainable conflict transformation (Warnecke and Franke, 2010), sustainable policing framework (Caputo and McIntyre, 2015), sustainability practices (Maletic et al, 2014), actorsfactors and implementation (Gelderman, et al, 2017), and integration process of circular economy practices and strategies (Klein et al, 2020).…”

“…The model is the combination of five sources of sustainability principle model such as the logic, implementing and continues improvement of sustainability model (Dalal-Clayton and Bass, 2002: 32-75); actors, factors and implementation of sustainability model (Gelderman et al, 2017); sustainability practice and organization performance model (Maletic et al, 2014); sustainable conflict transformation model (Warnecke and Franke, 2010); public service organization sustainability model (Klein et al, 2020); high-performance public sector value model (Diana, 2014); and a sustainable policing model (Caputo and McIntyre, 2015). The first three sets of the flow are the logic of the model to specify the goals and vision of the policing activities followed by the process to achieve them which need a system of coordination internal and external police institutions.…”

“…They argued that police services are still lag behind in developing strategy and decision making framework compare to private sectors. Thus, as part of this reason, this paper also uses public service organizations as a proxy to acquire sustainable concepts toward police institutions (Klein et al, 2020;Diana, 2014).…”

“…Police service delivery by implementing sustainable strategies need a coordination system to benefit from collaboration between policing agents as well as partnership with other organizations. In conflict, transformation police have to deal with any kind of stakeholders that need to be considered as an important part of policing service delivery (Klein et al, 2020). The stakeholders will support the conflict transformation since policing agents can easily understand the conflicted attitude through relationship with stakeholders despite the effective use of infrastructure to underpin conflict transformation process particularly in the initial stages (Figure 3).…”

Co-creating a Vision and Roadmap for Circular Economy in the Food and Beverages Packaging Sector

“…Circular economy (CE) has been gaining attention in recent years both in research and policy arenas [1] with several authors conducting reviews on the topic [2][3][4][5][6], proposing new frameworks [7,8] and indicators [9,10], and trying to understand how to pass from theory to implementation [11]. Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns is one of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals established in 2015 by the UN.…”