Examining the role of dynamic remanufacturing capability on supply chain resilience in circular economy

By Surajit Bag, Shivam Gupta, Cyril R. H. Foropon. Management Decision, 2019

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PurposeWorldwide, facing increasing resources pressure, more and more manufacturing firms aim to circular economy (CE), which is a system characterized by the application of remanufacturing principles and adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the function of remanufacturing capability in influencing supply chain resilience in supply chain networks under the moderating effects of both flexible orientation and control orientation.Design/methodology/approachData were gathered through a survey performed online in South Africa, and 150 participants completed the survey. Participants were mainly industry professionals holding senior administrative positions.FindingsResults indicate that market factors, management factors and technical factors positively influence dynamic remanufacturing capability (DRC). More specifically, on one hand, market factors strongly influence DRC, whereas, on the other hand, both management and technical factors influence at lower level DRC. DRC has a positive influence on supply chain resilience. Flexible orientation is found to positively moderate the effect of DRC on supply chain resilience, whereas control orientation does not exert any moderating effect on DRC and supply chain resilience.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies that explore research gaps between current vs desired remanufacturing capability requirements to achieve sustainability goals in CE.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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• When challenges impede the process (2019, unknown): “Circular economy helps organisations to reuse natural resources to extract the maximum value from them (Bergstrom and Randall, 2016; Bag et al., 2018).”
• Investigation of circular economy practices in the context of emerging economies: a CoCoSo approach (2021, background): “Besides, the circular Economic promotes the reuse of firms’ resources to gain maximum value (Khan and Haleem 2020; Bag et al., 2019).”