Eco-innovation pathways to a circular economy: Envisioning priorities through a Delphi approach

Jesús, Ana de; Antunes, Paula; Santos, Rui; Mendonça, Sandro

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.049

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“…Also, companies' activities are driven by customers' requirements, which do not always allow innovation from a CE perspective. These claims are supported by de Jesus [104], who suggests that most consumers are not interested in circular products but focus more on the cost-quality ratio.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…As a result, the competition might be lost, with consequent effects on the finances and reputation of the company. For this reason, companies either might prefer not to be first movers or might prefer the traditional mode of operations instead of innovating because the risks are already known and can be controlled [104]. Finally, innovation could end up being not fast enough, especially in a fast-changing market.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Circular Economy in China: Translating Principles into Practice

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The concept of circular economy (CE) has recently gained momentum in the political, scientific, and economic debate, especially in China and Europe. As a result, organizations and scholars have started to establish different sets of principles for its adoption. For this reason, it is important to identify and assess the differences and similarities among existing sets of CE principles, and how organizations and individuals understand and translate them into practice. In this paper, we firstly present a brief review and analysis of the coherence among six existing sets of principles. Our analysis finds that, despite the mixed degree of coherence, all sets describe the necessity to implement CE principles at all levels of a company. We then present the results of an in-depth qualitative survey that investigates how 19 key informants representing small, medium, and multinational companies based in China understand and carry out the CE principles laid out by the BSI standard BS 8001:2017; how these principles can transform the culture and processes of these companies; and what are the opportunities and threats that such transformation can bring. Results describe a good awareness and knowledge of the CE principles and an optimistic outlook concerning their adoption. At the same time, numerous barriers and threats that the implementation of these principles might entail are presented. Overall, respondents confirm the complexity of implementing the principles of the CE in an integrated and consistent way in the management and strategies of Chinese companies and highlight the challenges that might arise during their implementation.

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“…By summarizing and combining with other mathematical statistics methods, a consistent and reliable recommendation or prediction evaluation result is achieved. Delphi method has the advantages of anonymity, feedback and statistics and is now widely used in policy making, business forecasting, programme evaluation and other aspects [48][49][50]. The analytic hierarchy process is a multi-criteria decision-making method that combines qualitative and quantitative analyses and was proposed by American operations research scientist Saaty in the early 1970s.…”

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Low-Carbon Behaviour Performance of Scenic Spots in a World Heritage Site

Wang

Gan

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Sustainability

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A low-carbon behaviour performance evaluation index system is designed by using a Delphi method in this study. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to systematically measure the low-carbon behaviour performance of 32 scenic spots in Zhangjiajie, a world heritage site. The key driving factors that can significantly influence the low-carbon behaviour performance of the scenic spot are extracted by combining redundancy analysis (RDA). The results show that the scenic spots of Zhangjiajie performance well regarding low-carbon behaviour, however, there are still a great deal of room for improvement and promotion. Pressure from investors, the administration committees, tourists and local governments is the main driving factor for the low-carbon behaviour of scenic spot.

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“…Delphi technology, as a prediction method proposed by the Rand Corporation, combines the experience of multiple experts and subjective judgment [35]. Its core is to conduct several rounds of anonymous consultation to solicit the ideas of experts [36]. After summarizing and sorting out the opinions of each round, the aggregated information is sent to each expert as reference materials for the experts to analyze, judge and propose new ideas, repeating this for a few times, the experts' common ground gradually increase, and eventually can obtain a consensus [37,38].…”

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An Integrated MCDM Approach to Train Derailment Risk Response Strategy Selection

Zhang

Sun

2019

Symmetry

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Train derailment can mainly cause not only economic losses in the shape of mangled rolling stock or infrastructure, but also more severely in causalities and disruptions of operations, yielding great impact on the sustainable development of railway industry. Considering various complex and symmetrical operational environments, as well as the characteristics of low frequency and high consequences of derailment accidents, risk response is undoubtedly underlined as one of the most critical components of risk management process. However, in practice, risk response does not receive enough attention in comparison with risk assessment that it lacks mature models and tools for selecting optimal strategy. This study constructs an integrated Multi Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) model for the selection of optimum train derailment risk response strategy for the first time. In the model, decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technology is connected with analytical network process (ANP) to obtain evaluation criteria and their relative weights, and both of the two methods can deal with the complex coupling relationship between the indicators in the system. Then, technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is proposed to screen the optimum plan in the proposed model. Further, the Delphi method is used through the whole process to acquire expert advice. In the end, this model is used to select shunting derailment risk response strategies in Huangyangcheng station, and the final results demonstrate that this technology is simple and practical, and can provide a credible and practical tool for railway safety managers and engineers to choose the best risk response strategy.

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Eco-innovation pathways to a circular economy: Envisioning priorities through a Delphi approach

Cited by 150 publications

References 102 publications

Circular Economy in China: Translating Principles into Practice

Circular Economy in China: Translating Principles into Practice

Low-Carbon Behaviour Performance of Scenic Spots in a World Heritage Site

An Integrated MCDM Approach to Train Derailment Risk Response Strategy Selection

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