Circular economy: barrier and opportunities for SMEs

Abstract

The circular economy was a concept introduced by the European Union consortium, several national governments, and business people around the world. However, the scientific and research content of the circular economy concept is so superficial and disorganized that it is still a vague collection of ideas separate from several fields of science. The purpose of this study is to measure visual trends in the circular economy. This survey identified keywords related to the circular economy to find and identify related articles in the Scopus database for 1000 articles published from 2000 to 2021. The findings were a visual trend of the increasing number of publications each year, academic affiliation, author, article subject area, keywords, and authorship network. This literature review provides evidence that circular economy thinking attracts academic researchers to formulate relevant policies.

Innovation management in the hospitality industry

“…Consumer trends for 2023 indicate that travel is once again at the top of the list of desires for most people [8], motivating the hospitality industry to adapt to the latest industry trends, optimize costs, and increase operational efficiency. Modern innovative management in the development of the hospitality industry is adapting to societal awareness towards sustainability [9,10], increasing the well-being and health of consumers, and has established the following trends for 2023:…”

Implementation of Circular Economy Technologies: An Empirical Study of Slovak and Slovenian Manufacturing Companies

“…Over the last decade, research into the CE concept has also focused on the identification or systemization of the barriers which can prevent the full adoption of CE principles. The focus ranges from the regional or country (i.e., macro) level (e.g., [48][49][50][51]) through the industry (i.e., mezzo) level (e.g., [52][53][54][55][56]) to the company (i.e., micro) level (e.g., [17,57]). Barriers have been classified on the basis of systematic literature reviews (e.g., [17,55,58,59]) or identified by empirical research (e.g., [50][51][52]60]).…”

“…The focus ranges from the regional or country (i.e., macro) level (e.g., [48][49][50][51]) through the industry (i.e., mezzo) level (e.g., [52][53][54][55][56]) to the company (i.e., micro) level (e.g., [17,57]). Barriers have been classified on the basis of systematic literature reviews (e.g., [17,55,58,59]) or identified by empirical research (e.g., [50][51][52]60]). Studies by de Jesus & Mendonça [58] and Kirchherr et al [50] have categorized barriers into groups which cover regulatory/policy barriers, market/economic barriers, technical/technological barriers, and social/cultural/public participation barriers.…”

“…but, once again, there is a lack of knowledge about the sectoral (or other company characteristics) distribution of this potential technology. Finally, a number of studies have also defined and categorized CE barriers, but only few of them have also evaluated the degree of perception (e.g., Rizos et al [17]); to the best of our knowledge, no study to date has attempted to connect the perception of these barriers with future plans of companies to implement CE technologies.…”

Circular Economy Business Model: Bibliography Analysis and Future Agenda

“…Cicular economy topic is increase in last ten years, but this field still underdeveloped [12] due of many limitations, unexplored research topics, and still scattered only in industrial with highly readiness level [15]. Its implementation is also constrained by technology [16], [17] so that it is not optimal in increasing productivity and open innovation [18].…”