Cogent Business & Management,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
11(1)
Опубликована: Ноя. 28, 2024
This
study
explores
the
role
of
circular
entrepreneurship
in
advancing
sustainable
development
within
Kazakhstan,
an
emerging
market
traditionally
reliant
on
resource-intensive
economic
practices.
The
economy,
with
principles
reduce,
reuse,
recycle,
and
recover,
offers
a
transformative
alternative
to
linear
'take-make-waste'
model
by
promoting
resource
efficiency
waste
minimization.
Circular
entrepreneurs
are
pivotal
this
transition,
particularly
economies,
where
they
address
environmental
challenges
while
creating
new
opportunities.
Despite
its
potential,
Kazakhstan
faces
significant
challenges,
for
small
medium-sized
enterprises
(SMEs).
These
include
limited
policy
support,
inadequate
infrastructure,
lack
public
awareness
about
employs
qualitative
approach,
including
interviews
netnography,
investigate
motivations,
operational
dynamics,
faced
SMEs
that
have
integrated
economy
into
their
business
models.
findings
reveal
has
made
strides
through
initiatives
like
'Green
Economy'
Plan,
there
still
substantial
gaps
institutional
support
entrepreneurship.
underscores
need
targeted
strategies
enhance
awareness,
provide
financial
incentives,
strengthen
regulatory
frameworks,
foster
collaboration
among
stakeholders.
research
contributes
broader
understanding
markets,
offering
recommendations
aim
growth
businesses
accelerate
Kazakhstan's
transition
economy.
By
highlighting
unique
opportunities
context,
provides
valuable
insights
policymakers,
entrepreneurs,
other
stakeholders
committed
development.
Energies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
17(12), С. 2937 - 2937
Опубликована: Июнь 14, 2024
Effective
management
of
recyclable
plastic
waste
is
critical
for
environmental
sustainability
and
economic
viability.
Blockchain
technology
has
transformative
potential
in
addressing
the
challenges
management.
Currently,
inefficiency
recycling
systems
results
low
rates
significant
impacts
due
to
poor
sorting,
contamination,
limited
application.
However,
innovations
such
as
chemical
recycling,
solvent-based
techniques,
biotechnology
offer
promising
advances
waste.
provides
a
transparent,
decentralized
ledger
that
enhances
traceability
incentives
through
smart
contracts,
applications
(DApps),
digital
watermarks.
These
blockchain
solutions
can
improve
tracking,
automate
payments,
reward
participants
who
recycle
responsibly.
Although
investment
education
required,
integrating
with
Internet
Things
(IoT)
artificial
intelligence
(AI)-driven
analytics
could
revolutionize
by
creating
efficient,
collaborative
ecosystems.
immense
redefine
promote
sustainable,
circular
economy.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
435, С. 140561 - 140561
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Firms'
circular
sourcing
strategies
are
essential
for
the
transition
to
a
economy
as
they
enhance
circularity
both
within
individual
firms
and
across
industries.
A
key
barrier
implementation
of
such
is
that
many
approaches
still
offer
static
perspective
on
resource
use
without
addressing
its
evolutionary
characteristics
dynamic
interdependencies
over
time.
Based
assumption
companies'
strategic
procurement
decisions
recyclate
markets
show
temporal
patterns
depending
development
these
("marketness"),
dynamics
in
complex
cause-and-effect
structures
analysed
longitudinally
with
help
causal
loop
diagrams.
Employing
comparative
case-study
design
example
German
frontrunners
recycled
plastics,
paper
addresses
three
at
various
stages
development,
ranging
from
emerging
market
recovered
plastic
litter,
through
developing
mixed
post-consumer
packaging
waste,
towards
well-established
deposit
bottles.
The
results
reveal
ideal-typical
longitudinal
company
leaders'
strong
commitment
sustainability,
facilitated
by
flexible
organisational
structures,
significant
investment
product
sound
supplier
relationship
management
brand
building
sway
consumer
preferences
products,
indicating
market-shaping
activities
long-term
shifts
transitions.
By
understanding
their
stage
markets,
study
sheds
light
potential
governance
measures
scale-up
plastics
economy.
It
concludes
overall
point
steady
firms'
rapid
growth
application,
involving
challenges
call
carefully
targeted
regulatory
policies.
Journal of Industrial Ecology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
28(3), С. 374 - 385
Опубликована: Апрель 5, 2024
Abstract
Recent
scholarship
has
advocated
a
conceptual
investigation
of
rebound
effect
theory
in
the
circular
economy
(CE)
context.
While
available
body
knowledge
on
(CER)
is
rather
scant,
this
forum
article
proposes
view
existing
CER
approaches.
Our
analysis
reveals
that
literature
largely
bypassed
an
appreciation
how
firm
behavior
embedded
and
canalized
by
governance
arrangements.
This
contributes
to
reconceptualizing
challenges
mitigating
CERs.
It
re‐focus
debate
toward:
(i)
innovation
need
functional
collective
commitments
for
CE
address
free‐rider‐problems;
(ii)
criticality
effective
management
decoupling
through
innovative
governance;
(iii)
critical
reflection
calls
degrowth
“non‐optimization”
behavior;
(iv)
recognition
optimization
frameworks
as
complementary
than
substitute
approaches
facilitating
mitigation.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Март 24, 2025
ABSTRACT
The
ongoing
debate
in
corporate
sustainability
(CS)
about
the
moral
case
versus
business
has
recently
made
its
way
into
circular
economy
(
CE
)
discourse,
bringing
with
it
new
tradeoffs.
Although
perspective
emphasizes
profitability,
critics
argue
that
must
go
beyond
profit
motives
and
include
environmental
social
goals.
Despite
growing
importance
of
this
debate,
a
detailed
analysis
comparing
tradeoffs
between
cases
within
context
been
largely
bypassed
literature.
This
article
aims
to
bridge
gap
by
exploring
contrasts
these
highlighting
co‐evolutionary
relationship
them
transition.
Our
contributions
are
threefold:
(1)
We
many
perceived
limitations
contemporary
arise
from
viewing
as
statically
inevitable
rather
than
dynamically
resolvable.
(2)
conceptualize
cases,
suggesting
over
time,
innovative
governance,
elements
can
be
transformed
cases.
(3)
propose
definition
for
(i.e.,
cases)
contending
motive
inherent
can,
through
aligned
circularity
societal
well‐being.
Systems,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12(6), С. 211 - 211
Опубликована: Июнь 14, 2024
As
global
economic
competition
intensifies,
collaborative
innovation
in
strategic
emerging
industries
has
become
a
key
factor
promoting
growth
and
business
development,
attracting
widespread
attention.
To
delve
into
the
mechanisms
of
among
China’s
industries,
this
study
employs
social
network
analysis.
It
investigates
characteristics
these
by
analyzing
8,775,496
invention
patents,
exploring
impact
inter-industry
networks
on
innovation.
Furthermore,
incorporates
industry
knowledge
acquisition
as
mediating
variable
density
within
individual
moderating
variable,
to
more
comprehensively
explain
mechanism.
We
find
that
relational
structural
embeddings
significantly
positively
affect
performance,
highlighting
importance
partnerships
critical
role
configurations.
Additionally,
breadth
depth
mediate
relationship
between
embedding
emphasizing
pivotal
fostering
Lastly,
moderates
relationships
both
revealing
specific
impacts
internal
external
These
findings
not
only
provide
practical
guidance
for
across
but
also
offer
new
insights
implications
policy-making
academic
research.
In
future
industrial
special
emphasis
should
be
placed
establishing
maintaining
partnerships,
optimizing
networks,
enhancing
foster
sustainable
development
This
is
crucial
corporate
competitiveness,
creating
job
opportunities,
driving
innovative
development.
