The Case of an Agricultural Crop Business Association in Navarra as Circular Economy Intermediary

Prieto‐Sandoval, Vanessa; Mejía-Villa, Andrés; Jaca, Carmen; Ormazábal, Marta

doi:10.1007/s43615-021-00116-y

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“…Several authors emphasize that size determines an organization's capacity to access secondary resources to support viable circular material flows and hence to advance circularity [64,65,68,[85][86][87][88]. The composition of the network is dependent on a range of factors, such as the geographic distribution of the collaborators involved [89], the sector and resources each creates and requires [90], respective members' level of commitment over time [91], and the capabilities of various participants to manage and process circular flows [68]. Clearly, building a functional network of sufficient size and viability is a complex undertaking.…”

Section: Circular Resource Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to multilevel collaboration, the literature shows that intermediaries are important accelerators for CE transitions with the capabilities to collaborate with diverse stakeholders across multiple levels. This is because they are instrumental in bridging technology, cultural, institutional, attitudinal, and knowledge barriers for greater collaboration at all levels [62,90,93,120]. For example, intermediaries can help find technical experts with engineering and scientific knowledge to advise on product specifications [93].…”

Section: Intermediaries To Accelerate Ce Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity

2023

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The Circular Economy (CE) is heralded as an important concept with the potential to guide businesses and society toward a more sustainable future. However, while collaboration is widely accepted to play a central role in advancing circularity, little is known about how organizations effectively work together to achieve these outcomes. This is particularly problematic given that any shift toward collaboration requires systematic approaches based on effective collaborative processes between organizations. This conceptual paper addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive investigation of collaboration and circularity. The paper is based on a systematic literature review of 66 scientific publications as the foundation for analysis. Based on the analysis, the paper contributes to the CE literature by offering a novel approach to conceptualizing collaboration and circularity. A conceptual framework is provided which differentiates CE strategies at three stages of the product lifecycle. The paper makes a second contribution to the CE literature by examining the role that multilevel collaboration plays in facilitating a transition from a linear economy to a CE and, in particular, the significance of government in managing collaboration opportunities between partners. We highlight intermediaries as important accelerators in this transition. Future research directions are provided, including how government and intermediaries—among others—collaborate for CE transitions.

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Section: Circular Resource Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intermediaries To Accelerate Ce Transitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity

2023

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“…" Haas et al (2015) added also that in CE, material flows are either made up of biological nutrients designed to re-enter the biosphere, or materials designed to circulate within the economy (reuse and recycling). Prieto-Sandoval et al (2016) propose the following definition: CE is a social, environmental, and economic paradigm, whose purpose is to prevent the diminution of resources and revitalize environmental resources through the closed loops of materials and to decrease the loss of energy in the process.…”

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The Circular Economy: Recent debates and research trends

Džajić Uršič,

Fric,

Rončević

2024

J. Infras. Policy. Dev.

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The Circular Economy is one of the most prominent cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral concepts to emerge in recent decades. It has permeated academia, policymaking, business, NGOs, and the general public, leading to numerous applications of the concept, some of which only partially overlap. In this article, we review recent debates and research trends in the Circular Economy, outlining the ten most common groups of its conceptualizations using the PRISMA (Preferred Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) method. We then propose a post disciplinary and transnational research program on the Circular Economy that would not only combine hard and soft sciences in unprecedented ways but also have important practical applications, such as developing tools to embed the Circular Economy in natural, technical, economic, and socio-cultural settings.

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“…In this context, the paradigm of the circular economy (CE) might represent a constructive solution since it rejects the take-make-dispose thinking and, instead, follows a "take-make-distribute-use-recover" approach [7]. Although there is no agreed-on definition of CE [8,9], it can broadly be described as an economic strategy that transforms the current predominantly linear production and consumption pattern (raw materials are collected, transformed into products, and after their use eventually discarded as waste; traditional waste management approaches with a focus on resource recovery are applied) into a circular one (waste becomes a resource for the next production cycle through efficient material recirculation in the form of reuse, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and recycling) [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2022

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Companies worldwide strive to become more sustainable, and, in this context, the circular economy (CE) gains importance as alternative system as opposed to the linear economy. Since executive mangers around the world work with management systems (MSs) to guide and improve organizational operations, this work aims to explore how integrated MSs (IMS) as business tools can contribute to the adoption of CE principles at the corporate level. To achieve this objective, a systematic literature review is performed, which results in a synthesis sample of 18 academic papers. The findings reveal how MSs contribute to CE adoption and, therefore, demonstrate that managers can use IMS to foster CE implementation. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of institutional intervention in the transition from a linear towards a circular designed economy. The paper contributes to academia by linking the concepts of IMS and CE, synthesizing the current academic knowledge at hand, and proposing a comprehensive research agenda that sets the path for future academic investigations. In a practical perspective, the paper contributes also to managers since it emphasizes how IMS can be used to incorporate circular business thinking into operations management.

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The Case of an Agricultural Crop Business Association in Navarra as Circular Economy Intermediary

Cited by 6 publications

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Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity

Conceptualizing How Collaboration Advances Circularity

The Circular Economy: Recent debates and research trends

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