In search of a circular supply chain archetype – a content-analysis-based literature review

Batista, Luciano; Bourlakis, Michael; Smart, Palie; Maull, Roger

doi:10.1080/09537287.2017.1343502

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“…Closed loops include reverse logistic concepts but add on forward logistics (Chen & Chang, 2013). At pg 444 Batista et al (2018) show the state that "…closed-loop supply chain combines forward and reverse supply chain to cover entire product life cycles from cradle to grave" The following circle is circular economy. Circular economy concepts include closed loops concepts but take it further with a broader perspective looking at flows of resources and wastes within and across supply chains .The outer circles are industrial symbiosis and industrial ecology.…”

Section: Overlapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular economy: benefits, impacts and overlapping

Sehnem

Vázquez‐Brust

Pereira³

et al. 2019

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate overlaps, complementarities and divergences between the literature on circular economy (CE) models and related literature in non-linear production models and frameworks, including CE, reverse logistics, closed-loop, industrial symbiosis and industrial ecology. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was conducted focussing on the benefits of non-linear modes adoption. Findings The results show a high degree of convergence in findings, gaps and weaknesses of these literatures. Negative environmental, economic and operational impacts are understudied. There is a scarcity of studies identifying practices resulting in empirically tested benefits. The business and society case for non-linear production is still largely built upon conceptual studies, modelling and a few case studies. Despite a normative focus, there is very little use of theory, in particular, management theories. Research limitations/implications First, the authors use only one, albeit highly recognized database, Scopus. This database may have omitted some relevant research, journals such as the Journal of Cleaner Production and Resources Conservation & Recycling that are more likely to publish such research and also have a more interdisciplinary approach. This is an important gap and interesting result to claim for more interdisciplinary research. Second, the filtering process used and the focus on Association of Business Schools top journals may have also omitted some relevant research, such as a large stream of literature in specialist journals such as Resources Conservation and Recycling and the Journal of Cleaner Production. Practical implications There are contradictions, tensions and epistemological ambiguity that needs to be critically addressed. Such tensions may be associated with the knowledge field that gave rise to these different non-linear production approaches. Many of them appeared at the same time, but from different sciences and disciplines with their own perspectives. Then in doing so, they create confusion in the definitions of CE, assumptions underlying modelling and business choices arising from this complexity. This can be minimized through the critical interpretation of knowledge to elucidate epistemological quandaries to improve the understanding of the economic, social and environmental impacts of practices. Social implications In some way, this result makes sense, as the authors have limited the search to management, business and accounts journals, especially talking about Operations Management journals. This is an important gap and interesting result to claim for more interdisciplinary research. Originality/value In addition to gaps previously described, the authors identified areas of tensions where the literature offers inconclusive – often contradictory – findings requiring further exploration. A better understanding of these tensions is required to understand the impacts of non-linear production and develop policy guidelines for industry and policymakers to scale-up CE.

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Section: Overlapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular economy: benefits, impacts and overlapping

Sehnem

Vázquez‐Brust

Pereira³

et al. 2019

SCM

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114

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“…Content analysis, as Seuring and Gold [52] suggested, can be used to generate reliable findings due to the structured and consistent procedure. A few researchers have conducted a content-based literature review method in the field of supply chain management [52,53]. This paper not only thoroughly reviews blockchain, but also considers practical applications in food supply chain management.…”

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A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

Duan

Zhang

Gong

et al. 2020

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one out of 10 people get sick from eating contaminated food. Complex food production process and globalization make food supply chain more delicate. Many technologies have been investigated in recent years to address food insecurity and achieve efficiency in dealing with food recalls. One of the most promising technologies is Blockchain, which has already been used successfully in financial aspects, such as bitcoin, and it is attracting interests from food supply chain organizations. As blockchain has characteristics, such as decentralization, security, immutability, smart contract, it is therefore expected to improve sustainable food supply chain management and food traceability. This paper applies a content-analysis based literature review in blockchain adoption within food supply chain. We propose four benefits. Blockchain can help to improve food traceability, information transparency, and recall efficiency; it can also be combined with Internet of things (IoT) to achieve better efficiency. We also propose five potential challenges, including lack of deeper understanding of blockchain, technology difficulties, raw data manipulation, difficulties of getting all stakeholders on board, and the deficiency of regulations.

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“…Among the effectiveness that could be realised by firms, they include cost savings in operations, improving the relationships with customers to encourage repeat use, utilising the recovered products to support the production capacity, lowering the buying cost for raw materials, components or subassemblies because less are needed, mitigating the volume of wastes for disposal, increasing the commitment towards green practices and reducing the scrap rate (Shaharudin et al, 2017). Being a traditional reverse approach, RL now gives way to closed loop supply chains (CLSC) and RE which has a reverse restorative/regenerative focus (Batista et al, 2018). But firms do not always exploit the potential of reverse flow as the conditions allowing the exploitation remain unclear (Larsen et al 2018).…”

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“…It is appreciated that the disposal of hearing aids, being so small, has a relatively minor impact on landfill masses. However, the process management of the issue of the device is illustrative of other medical equipment and further investigation into manufacturer-led initiatives and provider-led initiatives should be conducted to devise the most effect strategies and motivations for the change in process (Guo et al, 2017;Batista et al, 2018). The mapping developed represents only the first step in investigating the NHS supply chain and any interventions based on it will need to be tested and validated.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reverse exchange of healthcare devices: the case of hearing aid equipment in the UK

Cole

Lindsay

Barker

2018

Production Planning & Control

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Reverse exchange (RE) in dealing with the return, recycle and reuse of products is receiving a growing focus. When properly handled, RE in healthcare can deliver an economic benefit of cost minimisation and has extensive positive impacts on both human health and the environment (Li and Olorunniwo, 2008) but to date, RE research is mostly limited to pharmaceutical return. This paper investigates the potential for RE benefits in the UK National Health Service (NHS) supply chain for medical devices. Hearing aids supplied to adults with hearing loss are used as an illustrative example. This research applied a consensus approach through the use of dispersed nominal groups in order to obtain qualitative data on information, barriers, solutions and priorities to support findings. Findings illustrate that the end user behaviour of returning the device, and the requirement by NHS Procurement for manufacturers to meet RE targets are secondary to the importance of audiology departments who have the autonomy to design RE processes and successfully implement initiatives. A schematic highlighting the information and materials flow of the supply chain and the barriers and facilitators to RE is presented for hearing aid devices with potential for transferability to other small medical device supply chains.

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In search of a circular supply chain archetype – a content-analysis-based literature review

Cited by 277 publications

References 62 publications

Circular economy: benefits, impacts and overlapping

Circular economy: benefits, impacts and overlapping

A Content-Analysis Based Literature Review in Blockchain Adoption within Food Supply Chain

Reverse exchange of healthcare devices: the case of hearing aid equipment in the UK

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