How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy

Stucki, Matthias; Jattke, Marleen; Berr, Marcus; Desing, Harald; Green, Ashley; Hellweg, Stefanie; Laurenti, Rafael; Meglin, Ronny; Muir, Karen; Pedolin, Dario; Shinde, Rhythima; Welz, Tobias; Keller, Regula

doi:10.1007/s11367-021-01894-1

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“…Existing literature studies concerning circular entrepreneurship show that Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) or LCA‐based tools are one of the most used by companies, experimenting circular business models, for the evaluation of environmental impacts of products (e.g., Das et al, 2022; Stucki et al, 2021). Some studies distinguish between companies that adopt a linear business model as their core strategy but are experimenting new ways of doing business with the purpose of reducing their environmental impacts and companies that born circular and adopt since their inception a circular business model.…”

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Exploring environmental and social performances of circular start‐ups: An orientation and certification assessment

Ghisellini,

Quinto,

Passaro

et al. 2023

Bus Strat Env

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The circular economy (CE) aims to deeply transform the current linear model of economy and society into a business model capable to extend the lifetime of resources and decrease environmental impacts. For this to happen, changes in societal systems and production sectors, from micro to macro, are required.The present research, based on a multiple case‐study explorative approach of circular start‐ups (CSUs), investigates their adoption of environmental impact assessment methods, environmental and social certifications and contribution to a better integration of the social dimension in the CE model. Results indicate that three out of six CSUs carefully measure and certify their environmental and social impacts. Life Cycle Assessment resulted the most adopted environmental assessment method, while two CSUs are also certified benefit corporations. CSUs are mainly oriented toward the use of quantitative methods for the measurement of environmental and social impacts. Additional efforts are still needed toward the implementation of qualitative methods to properly highlight the achievement of social benefits (environmental and social awareness, employees' engagement, work time and free time balance, consumers health and safety, among others) for their stakeholders (workers, local community, consumers). Nevertheless, CSUs case studies highlight their potential of supporting the transition toward a fair CE while at the same time facilitating the integration of social dimension aspects into the CE model. Finally, by developing appropriate business to consumer models, CSUs can strongly affect consumption behaviors and habits, making them also more aware and responsible of their environmental and social life cycle impacts and improvement potential.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Exploring environmental and social performances of circular start‐ups: An orientation and certification assessment

Ghisellini,

Quinto,

Passaro

et al. 2023

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“…According to [55], politicians, activists, and researchers are fighting for a more sustainable economy based on the need to develop new methodologies for analyzing environmental sustainability. These new methods should include more complex procedures such as EIA (environmental impact assessment) and LCA (life cycle assessment; an internationally standardized approach-ISO 14,040-to assess the use and life cycle of resources and their emissions).…”

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Cooperative Projects to Share Good Practices towards More Effective Sustainable Mining—SUGERE: A Case Study

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The supply of raw materials is a global challenge to be addressed; themes such as “sustainability”, “responsibility”, and “eco-compatibility” represent the cornerstones for proceeding towards a “wise” management of georesources. According to the United Nations’ SDGs, the economic development of countries must go hand in hand with the improvement of their environmental, health, and social sustainability. From this perspective, the exploitation of georesources needs to be handled with an interdisciplinary approach that tackles not only the technical, economic, and environmental issues, but also the social, legislative, and human health ones. In recent years, Europe has promoted several cooperative projects aimed at boosting sustainability in the extractive industry. To achieve and guarantee concrete and truly sustainable mining, it is necessary to build and strengthen educational and training skills. With these objectives in mind, the first results of the EU–Africa SUGERE Erasmus+ project are presented here. The objects of the project are the implementation of Bachelor, Master, and doctoral curricula in geology and mining engineering and the promotion of socioeconomic development thanks to the training of experts who are able to cooperate and work in an interdisciplinary manner for a sustainable approach to local mine exploitation.

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“…Therefore, the impact of flexibility improvement is quite visible. The product life cycle is essential for firm performance in IT organizations and the economy (Suomala, 2005;Stucki et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2016). Therefore, the IT sector is taken to demonstrate the FMM applicability and suitability.…”

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Benchmarking the practices of flexibility with maturity models and frameworks of organizational capabilities

Shukla

Sushil

2021

BIJ

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PurposeOrganizational capabilities are crucial to achieve the objectives. A plethora of maturity models is available to guide organizational capabilities that create a perplexing situation about what stuff to improve and what to leave. Therefore, a unified maturity model addressing a wide range of capabilities is a necessity. This paper establishes that a flexibility maturity model is an unified model containing the operational, strategic and human capabilities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper does a comparative analysis/benchmarking studies of different maturity models/frameworks widely used in the information technology (IT) sector with respect to the flexibility maturity model to establish its comprehensiveness and application in the organization to handle multiple goals.FindingsThis study confirms that the flexibility maturity model has the crucial elements of all the maturity models. If the organizations use the flexibility maturity model, they can avoid the burden of complying with multiple ones and become objective-driven rather than compliance-driven.Research limitations/implicationsThe maturity models used in information technology sectors are used. This work will inspire other maturity models to adopt flexibility phenomena.Practical implicationsThe comparative analysis will give confidence in application of flexibility framework. The business environment and strategic options across organizations are inherently different that the flexibility maturity model well handles.Social implicationsA choice is put to an organization to see the comparison tables produced in this paper and choose the right framework according to the prevailing business situation.Originality/valueThis is the first study that makes a conclusion based on comparative benchmarking of existing maturity models.

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How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring environmental and social performances of circular start‐ups: An orientation and certification assessment

Exploring environmental and social performances of circular start‐ups: An orientation and certification assessment

Cooperative Projects to Share Good Practices towards More Effective Sustainable Mining—SUGERE: A Case Study

Benchmarking the practices of flexibility with maturity models and frameworks of organizational capabilities

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