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Innovating for impact: Harnessing business model innovation to tackle grand challenges Open
Research Summary This Special Section of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal explores how business model innovation (BMI) can address grand challenges (GCs), including a rtificial intelligence (AI), b usiness and global unrest, and c li…
Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review Open
Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consump…
Circular Economy Platforms: A Systematic Review Open
Digital platforms enable circular business models that can provide both economic and environmental benefits. However, the literature on platforms in the context of the circular economy has remained descriptive and fragmented across fields,…
Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States Open
The transition to a circular economy challenges existing regulatory frameworks, social norms, and belief systems: the dominant institutions. Moving from a linear to circular business model (CBM) is essential for sustainable business transf…
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Rebound effects in circular business models: A review of cases and mitigation strategies Open
Circular business models are typically designed with the intent to meet customer demands, while resolving environmental issues related to resource usage, product lifetimes and waste reduction. Yet, rebound effects might hinder their positi…
Circular Economy Policies and Business Models in the EU Renewable Energy Sector: The Case of Solar Photovoltaic Industry Open
The circular economy is an approach to decouple economic growth from environmental impacts. In Europe, its development is driven by policies that guide market dynamics through regulations and by businesses innovating with new circular mode…
The Roles of Civil Society Associations in Organising the Informal Circular Economy Open
A circular economy (CE) transition requires more than technological innovation and market‐based solutions. It demands a circular society that values informal repair, reuse and sharing practices. This study investigates how civil society as…
Unlocking the Social Circular Economy: Value Propositions and Organizational Design of Social Circular Hubs Open
A circular economy can only succeed through a circular society, ensuring equitable access to circular innovations for all social groups. Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) foster inclusive labor markets by supporting disadvantaged…
Emerging Regenerative Business Paradigm: Narrative Review, Synthesis, and Research Agenda Open
This study examines the concept of regenerative business strategy. Regeneration is an emerging approach where businesses aim to create a positive impact on socio-ecological systems, rather than just making incremental improvements or minim…
Transformative and community-based participation in collaborative business model experimentation for urban upcycling Open
Across cities and urban regions in The Netherlands unusual collaborations emerge which aim to develop new circular business models that facilitate product and resource longevity through various upcycling strategies, such as reuse, repair, …
Enabling and embedding circularity goals in housing cooperatives Open
Shifting towards a circular economy in the built environment is considered an important step toward fostering environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. Housing cooperatives, established to provide affordable and democratic…
Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy Open
The circular economy constitutes a paradigm shift which has proven to be both engaging and unrealistic. While scholars and practitioners have started to advocate for a move toward the circular economy, promising a full reconfiguration of u…
The Brussels and California Effects? Circular Economy Policy Influence Across Borders Open
The influence of environmental policy has been known to move beyond the country or regional contexts in which they have been implemented. Examples in literature include the “California effect” and the “Brussels effect”, showing how the pol…
How circular are large corporations? Evidence from a large-scale survey with senior leaders Open
The circular economy has been promoted as a way for corporations to radically improve their resource efficiency and effectiveness by narrowing, slowing, closing and regenerating resource flows. However, the degree of implementation of thes…
Cooperating for circularity? Perspectives of citizen energy cooperative members on circular solar business models Open
Solar photovoltaics (PV) play a critical role in advancing the sustainable energy transition, but growing concerns about PV waste highlight the need for circular economy solutions within the solar value chain. Meanwhile, concerns for the s…
Motives, drivers and barriers to urban upcycling: Insights from furniture upcycling in the Netherlands Open
With growing environmental concerns, upcycling has become an important theme in literature and practice. Upcycling can help slow and close resource cycles through product life-extension. Cities offer opportunities for upcycling initiatives…
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda Open
The circular economy (CE) challenges the traditional linear economic model by emphasizing the importance of resource efficiency, recycling, and regeneration in society. However, the role of gender in CE practices remains underexplored. Thi…
Transitioning the Firm to a Circular Stakeholder-value Creation Model Open
In the past two decades, there has been increasing interest in both Business Model innovation within a purely shareholder-value paradigm and simultaneously the Circular Economy (CE) within a stakeholder-value paradigm. Additionally, there …
Regenerative business strategies: A database and typology to inspire business experimentation towards sustainability Open
In a time marked by growing environmental and societal challenges, where multiple planetary boundaries are being crossed, the way we conduct business practices needs to be rethought. Regenerative business models offer a path towards a more…