Circular Business Model Innovation: Inherent Uncertainties

By M. Linder, Mats Williander. 2017

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Designing the Business Models for Circular Economy—Towards the Conceptual Framework (2016, background): “Moreover, validating a circular business model always has a higher business risk than validating a corresponding traditional, linear business model [18].”
Financial Resources for the Circular Economy: A Perspective from Businesses (2019, background): “The introduction of the CE in businesses has also been analysed [8] due to the increasing interest of companies toward CE [9,10].”
Circular Economy: Measuring Innovation in the Product Chain (2017, neutral): “According to Linder and Williander (2015), a circular revenue model requires technological expertise to close the product chain.”
Implementation of Circular Economy Business Models by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs): Barriers and Enablers (2016, neutral): “For example, in the case of remanufacturing photocopiers, the main challenge is to have the required labour to deal with the rate of photocopier returns [41].”
Critiques of the circular economy (2021, neutral): “…ownership of products, which increases “the magnitude of invested resources at risk” against the time it takes to validate the business model (Linder & Williander, 2017, p. 193); and for all models unresolved questions remain about how to avoid linear lock-ins and how to deal with trade-offs…”
The Emergence of Circular Economy: A New Framing Around Prolonging Resource Productivity (2017, background): “A second example, concerning re-use and remanufacturing business models, involves changing the relationships within value chains and overcoming uncertainties related to financial risk associated with future customer demand and high capital requirements (Linder and Williander 2017).”
Behavioral change for the circular economy: A review with focus on electronic waste management in the EU (2020, background): “Despite the potential economic and environmental benefits of business models based on remanufacturing and/or product-service system, their adoption in industries are not widespread (Linder and Williander, 2017).”