Towards Circular Business Models: A systematic literature review on classification frameworks and archetypes
By Paolo Rosa, Claudio Sassanelli, Sergio Terzi. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
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Abstract Since many years, companies are trying to cope with impressive technological growth rates, severe environmental issues and even more restrictive national and international directives. However, innovative Business Models (BMs) and industrial strategies adequate to this new context are still either under development or implementation. To this aim, the article proposes a systematic literature review on existing Circular Business Models (CBMs) and their classification methods, by selecting the most promising ones. A total amount of 283 articles related with CBMs has been assessed into detail, by identifying: 5 archetypes, 9 classification methods, 5 adoption-oriented challenges, 4 decision-support tools and 3 additional research areas. Key findings demonstrate that: i) Product-Service Systems (PSSs)-oriented and Reuse, Remanufacturing and Recycling (3R)-based CBMs are the most common archetypes, ii) Business Model Canvas is the most diffused classification framework, iii) sustainability and company-based challenges are the most discussed by the experts and iv) sustainability check-oriented is the most common type of decision-support tools. These (and others) results could support both companies, researchers and governments in updating the current knowledge on CBMs and make them adoptable for practitioners from different industrial contexts.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Circular economy in manufacturing companies: A review of case study literature (2021, background): “Regarding the empirical base on CBM in manufacturing, PSS is by far the most extensively explored (Sousa-Zomer et al., 2018; Rosa et al., 2019).”
- Plastic recycling in additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review and opportunities for the circular economy (2020, background): “Many authors have pointed out the practices of the R framework as core principles of CE (Milios, 2018; Morseletto, 2020; Rosa et al., 2019).”