Business Strategy and the Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Май 15, 2025
ABSTRACT The deteriorating impact of traditional linear model on agriculture productivity and ecology has drawn a serious emphasis the espousal circular economy ( CE ) practices in sector. Accordingly, an increasing number startups operating principles are emerging sector to create value from agri‐waste. In this research, we aim investigate challenges faced by these agri waste‐to‐value (WTV) startups, which is currently missing extant literature. process, have used lens extended institutional theory (EIT) identify understand WTV stakeholder (ST) propose strategies for overcoming obstacles. An innovative integrated based probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTS), evidential reasoning algorithm (ERA), aggregated‐ranking considering psychological preferences decision makers developed examine challenges. This one initial studies comprehensively explore framework overcome EIT ST. A multidimensional analysis performed consider economic, operational, socio‐environmental implications Different analyses conducted better understanding about maturity stage specific startups. findings reveal that coercive pose most critical threat policy restructuring urgently required support Further, operational related raw materials infrastructure appear be more waste‐to‐material whereas waste‐to‐energy struggling due technological issues.
Язык: Английский