Comparing linear and circular supply chains: a case study from the construction industry

By M. Nasir, Andrea Genovese, Adolf Akwei Acquaye, S. L. Lenny Koh, F. Yamoah. 2017

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In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been developed in efforts to try and reduce the negative consequences of production and consumption processes on the environment. In parallel to this, the circular economy discourse has been propagated in the industrial ecology and production economics literature and, lately, in business and practice. The ideals of circular economy principles suggests that the frontiers of environmental sustainability can be pushed by emphasising the idea of transforming products in such a way that there are workable relationships between ecological systems and economic growth.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

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A Systematic Literature Review of Bio, Green and Circular Economy Trends in Publications in the Field of Economics and Business Management (2018, background): “…Noya et al., 2017 Waste Management Salemdeeb et al., 2016 Environment, Development and Sustainability Zhao et al., 2017 International Economics and Economic Policy Winning et al., 2017 International Journal of Production Economics Nasir et al., 2017 Sustainability 2018, 10, 4232 21 of 39 Table A1.”
Identifying the Equilibrium Point between Sustainability Goals and Circular Economy Practices in an Industry 4.0 Manufacturing Context Using Eco-Design (2019, background): “Linear production systems, which currently dominate the global economy, have proven to be resource constrained and have a high environmental and social impact because they are fundamentally based on the extraction, manufacture, use, and disposal of end-of-life products (Nasir et al. 2017).”
Industry 4.0 and the circular economy: a proposed research agenda and original roadmap for sustainable operations (2018, background): “In addition, a substantial amount of recent literature deals with this subject (e.g. Liu et al. 2012; Nasir et al. 2017).”
Supply chain management and the circular economy: towards the circular supply chain (2018, positive): “This is despite the significance of SCM in terms of innovation and transitionary capability towards the CE (Aminoff and Kettunen, 2016; Hopkinson et al., 2016), and the substantial implications of CE principles for current SCM practice (Nasir et al., 2016; Genovese et al., 2017).”
Challenges in supply chain redesign for the Circular Economy: a literature review and a multiple case study (2018, background): “For instance, through a Life Cycle Assessment, it has been demonstrated that circular supply chains for insulation materials – in which waste is utilised as raw materials – reduce the emissions of Carbon Dioxide by 60% (Nasir et al. 2017).”