Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Circular Economy: Leveraging Ecosystem Strategies for Circular Business Model Implementation
Organization & Environment,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Март 26, 2025
The
circular
economy
can
enable
small
and
medium-sized
enterprises
(SMEs)
to
address
sustainability
challenges
facilitate
the
transition
from
linear
economy.
Understanding
ecosystem
strategies
their
implications
for
business
model
implementation
is
vital
a
successful
transition.
Therefore,
we
seek
answer
following
research
question:
How
do
SMEs’
influence
achieve
circularity
goals?
Drawing
on
multiple
case
study
of
31
SMEs
food
processing
industry,
our
provides
insights
into
four
strategies:
visioner,
synergizer,
explorer,
amplifier.
These
are
contingent
ability
adopt
an
appropriate
role
in
(leader
or
complementor)
state
evolution
(emerging
established).
In
addition,
elucidate
activities
dealing
with
design,
development,
commercialization
that
relate
identified.
Язык: Английский
The Environmental Policy and the Circular Economy Adoption: An Empirical Study of Manufacturing Companies
Business Strategy and the Environment,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2025
ABSTRACT
This
study
investigates
the
relationship
between
environmental
policy
and
manufacturing
companies'
adoption
of
a
circular
economy
(
CE
).
By
examining
through
lens
strategies
management
systems
(EMSs),
research
highlights
their
correlation
with
intensity
realised
practices,
positioning
them
as
key
antecedents
transition.
Based
on
representative
sample
1200
firms
in
Poland's
Malopolska
region,
analysis
uses
measures
association
strength,
significance
testing,
residual
variable
aggregation.
Our
findings
reveal
that
possessing
strategy
EMS
correlates
higher
number
practices.
is
also
related
to
minimisation
industrial
waste
energy‐savings.
paper
provides
novel
insights
into
role
policies
enabling
successful
principles
among
small‐
medium‐sized
enterprises
(SMEs),
addressing
critical
gaps
literature,
driving
sustainable
transformation
offering
actionable
for
practitioners.
Язык: Английский