Circular economy business models: The state of research and avenues ahead
By Marcos Ferasso, Tatiana Beliaeva, Sascha Kraus, Thomas Clauss, Domingo Enrique Ribeiro-Soriano. 2020
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This study investigates how the circular economy and business models are related in the current business and management literature. Based on bibliometric analytical procedures, 253 articles were retrieved from the Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect scientific databases. The articles were analyzed according to network analysis principles, and key terms were mapped into a network. We used VOSviewer to build the network, explore the most‐researched terms and their relationships, and identify less‐explored terms and research gaps. We furthermore conducted a qualitative review of selected publications to provide an illustration of quantitative results and delve deeper into the research topics. The main findings revealed the networks of current topics as they appear in the publications such as business models, the circular economy, circular business models, value, supply chain, transition, resource, waste, and reuse, and their most prevalent relationships. The results also highlighted several emerging topics such as those connected with managerial, supply‐side, demand‐side, networking, performance, and contextual considerations of circular business models.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- How to innovate business models for a circular bio‐economy? (2021, background): “These links between different action levels (Barreiro-Gen & Lozano, 2020) and between business model and technological innovations (Ferasso et al., 2020) have not been clearly shown before in literature on circular economy business models, possibly due to the new area of research (Pieroni et al.,…”
- Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review (2021, background): “Finally, Ferasso et al. (2020) carry out a systematic literature review of business models and the CE based on key interrelated themes identified: product, technology, industry, strategy, and sustainability.”
- Investigating environmental sustainability in small family-owned businesses: Integration of religiosity, ethical judgment, and theory of planned behavior (2021, background): “As businesses are taking an increasing interest in sustainability (Ferasso et al., 2020), this study examines the relationship between religiosity and sustainable environmental behavior in family-owned businesses.”
- Bridging the gap between circular economy and climate change mitigation policies through eco-innovations and Quintuple Helix Model (2020, background): “efficiency (energy and materials) and the use of renewable energy (Ferasso et al., 2020; Johansson, and Henriksson, 2020).”