Demystifying corporate inertia towards transition to circular economy: A management frame of reference

Yamoah, Fred A.; Sivarajah, Uthayasankar; Mahroof, Kamran; Peña, Iker González

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108388

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“…In return, the society and market would then call for a virtuous cycle creation by embracing circularity and design of novel no-food waste supply chains (Patwa et al. , 2021; Yamoah et al. , 2022).…”

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“…Moreover, their activities and attitude as role models in modern societies' connection to nature would be emphasized. In return, the society and market would then call for a virtuous cycle creation by embracing circularity and design of novel no-food waste supply chains (Patwa et al, 2021;Yamoah et al, 2022).…”

Section: Traceability Of the Supply Chain For Table Olives Casementioning

confidence: 99%

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AgriFood supply chain traceability: data sharing in a farm-to-fork case

Moysiadis¹,

Spanaki

Kläser

et al. 2022

BIJ

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PurposeTraceability of food is of paramount importance to the increasingly sustainability-conscious consumers. Several tracking and tracing systems have been developed in the AgriFood sector in order to prove to the consumers the origins and processing of food products. Critical challenges in realizing food's traceability include cooperating with multiple actors on common data sharing standards and data models.Design/methodology/approachThis research applies a design science approach to showcase traceability that includes preharvest activities and conditions in a case study. The authors demonstrate how existing data sharing standards can be applied in combination with new data models suitable for capturing transparency information about plant production.FindingsTogether with existing studies on farm-to-fork transparency, our results demonstrate how to realize transparency from field to fork and enable producers to show a complete bill of sustainability.Originality/valueThe existing standards and data models address transparency challenges in AgriFood chains from the moment of harvest up to retail (farm-to-fork) relatively well, but not what happens before harvest. In order to address sustainability concerns, there is a need to collect data about production activities related to product quality and sustainability before harvesting and share it downstream the supply chain. The ability to gather data on sustainability practices such as reducing pesticide, herbicide, fertilizer and water use are crucial requirements for producers to market their produce as quality and sustainable products.

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Section: Traceability Of the Supply Chain For Table Olives Casementioning

confidence: 99%

AgriFood supply chain traceability: data sharing in a farm-to-fork case

Moysiadis¹,

Spanaki

Kläser

et al. 2022

BIJ

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“…Realising circular economy often requires changes that permeate the value network comprising customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers (Awan et al, 2021;Saha et al, 2021;Urbinati et al, 2017); hence, this is an important context in which the opportunities represented by sustainable business models have been considered and studied (Rauter et al, 2022). So far, unclear short-to-medium-term business benefits have been hindering the realisation of circular economy (Huang et al, 2021;Yamoah et al, 2022), especially since circularity-oriented practices have been demonstrably driven by economic rather than environmental factors (Masi et al, 2018), and conflicts among diverse perspectives on sustainability could arise (D'Amato et al, 2019). However, rapid evolution is evident; for instance, EU-level regulatory pressure is creating strong incentives for businesses to implement circular-economy-supporting strategies and practices (Awan et al, 2021;Gaur et al, 2021;Saha et al, 2021).…”

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The role and value of data in advancing environmental sustainability with empirical evidence from tissue and textile businesses

Luoma¹

2023

Diss. For.

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As the need for genuine sustainability transformation crystallises, data’s digitalisation-enabled use creates opportunities to refine how businesses and societies operate. With the power of diverse data sources, available in increasing quantity, actors can set feasible environmental targets, identify improvement opportunities, implement actions, and follow development. The dissertation explores data’s role and value for corporate environmental sustainability and specifically for circular economy from four perspectives: the customer-perceived value of data for environmental sustainability (considered via studying a tissue-paper supplier), how data’ use influences sustainability pathways toward circular economy (specifically of textiles), paradoxical tensions that arise in utilising data to drive circular economy (in the textiles context), and how the literature characterises data’s role and value in circular business models. A company case study, disaggregative Delphi and literature review were used as research methods. The work pinpointed availability of detailed, reliable product-specific data as crucial for supporting environmental sustainability and transparency of products’ value chains. Also, capturing data’s value here demands collaboration with customers and suppliers but also wider business networks, central to which are conditions for solid data-sharing. Consumers demand environmental sustainability, circularity, and accrue benefit from data-related decisions on individual purchases. The strategic and operative decisions/activities across business functions and throughout value chains further guide environmentally better-informed decisions. While use of data can be crucial to developing sustainable business models (for circularity specifically), the role varies less between models than with the activity supported. The results clearly implies that neither environment-related data nor initiatives utilising data automatically benefit the environment; the interactions are more complex. Still, the data are a critical business enabler, and anticipating future data needs should dovetail with systematically developing environment-related data-management capabilities. These findings provide rich insight as to the elements, mechanisms, and critical issues of data driving environmental sustainability and circular economy.

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“…Since all supply chain actors have influenced the plan and are aware of the financial and environmental effects, they are aware of why remanufacturing is initiated and how it affects them. This awareness is important in circularity transitions as inertia towards changes is often present at different management levels (Yamoah et al, 2022): inertia that must be overcome to transition from planning to industrialisation.…”

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5‐step approach for initiating remanufacturing (5AFIR)

Duberg

Kurilova-Pališaitienė

Sundin

2023

Bus Strat Env

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Despite remanufacturing being a value-retention process capable of bringing both economic and environmental benefits to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the remanufacturing market is small, and the OEM share on the market is even smaller. There are trends in OEMs hesitating to initiate remanufacturing due to the lack of knowledge or often unjustified assumptions about how remanufacturing affects their business-as-usual. To further motivate OEMs to initiate remanufacturing, there is a need to extend the remanufacturing initiation theory to showcase how remanufacturing could be initiated in practice. Therefore, this paper aims to describe a remanufacturing initiation and demonstrate the initiation steps for OEMs by developing a remanufacturing initiation framework. The framework is developed based on a remanufacturing initiation led by an OEM of robotic lawn mowers. Based on the case study, a 5-step approach for initiating remanufacturing (5AFIR) framework-the remanufacturing sapphire-was developed to interpret and visualise the remanufacturing approach taken at the studied OEM. The framework steps consist of the following:(1) Select a product family, (2) involve actors prone to be impacted by remanufacturing, (3) iteratively identify prerequisites and assess the system performance, (4) develop a plan and industrialise remanufacturing, and (5) refine and validate the assessment in Step 3.

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Demystifying corporate inertia towards transition to circular economy: A management frame of reference

Cited by 32 publications

References 81 publications

AgriFood supply chain traceability: data sharing in a farm-to-fork case

AgriFood supply chain traceability: data sharing in a farm-to-fork case

The role and value of data in advancing environmental sustainability with empirical evidence from tissue and textile businesses

5‐step approach for initiating remanufacturing (5AFIR)

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