The impact of technical and economic disruptions in industrial symbiosis relationships: An enterprise input-output approach

Fraccascia, Luca

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.03.020

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“…This assumption is consistent with the real behavior of companies, which usually prefer to implement one-to-one IS relationships (e.g., Chopra and Khanna, 2014). In fact, exchanging the same waste with more than one other company would increase the supply chain complexity and, as a consequence, the transaction costs for companies (Fraccascia et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Industrial Symbiosis Networksupporting

confidence: 71%

“…In fact, because of the dynamic business environment in which companies are involved, both types and amounts of produced wastes and required inputs might fluctuate over time (e.g., Fraccascia et al, 2017b;Wang et al, 2017). Such fluctuations might create a quantity mismatch between demand and supply of wastes, which can reduce the willingness of companies to keep their current IS relationships (Fraccascia, 2019). In this regard, let us .…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Isns As Complex Adaptive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study

Fraccascia

2020

Ecological Economics

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This paper explores the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis (IS), which is a recommended strategy to support the transition towards the circular economy. Through IS, companies can use wastes produced by other companies as inputs to production processes. Online platforms supporting companies in operating IS relationships can play a critical role in developing the IS practice. In this paper, an agent-based model is designed to simulate the emergence of IS relationships among companies located in a given geographical area. Companies can establish relationships traditionally (relying on face-to-face contacts) or by using a platform. Several scenarios, defined by different platform usage rates, are simulated. Results show that there is a minimum platform usage rate allowing companies to benefit from using the platform. If the platform usage rate is lower than this threshold, the platform does not contribute to generate further benefits for companies. When the platform usage rate is higher than the threshold, the individual benefits for users are higher the greater the number of other companies using the platform. Based on these results, implications on how to ensure a win-win approach for companies and platform owners can be provided, as well as implications for policymakers.

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Section: The Industrial Symbiosis Networksupporting

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Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study

Fraccascia

2020

Ecological Economics

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“…The increasing costs may be a trigger for the shipowners to get it dismantled. In contrast, a drop of local rerolling demand trigged by the absence of construction works put economic sustainability at risk for recyclers and shipowners –as noted by Fraccascia et al. (2019) that the technical and economic disruption in terms of changes in input and operational cost significantly disrupt the symbiosis linkages and independent of the effect of stakeholders’ interpretive postures and trust relationship.…”

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“…Under circular economy, disruption is discussed mainly to understand the challenges associated with critical metal supply shortages ( Sprecher et al. 2017 , Gaustad et al., 2018 , Fraccascia et al. 2019 , Lapko et al.…”

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Disruption in Circularity? Impact analysis of COVID-19 on ship recycling using Weibull tonnage estimation and scenario analysis method

Rahman

Kim

Laratte

2021

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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The sustainability of the ship recycling industry strongly linked with the global shipping market and international commodity flows. More than 80% of the End of Life (EoL) ships are dismantled in South Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Due to measures taken to minimize the propagation of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an international supply chain is broken to a historic low, except for certain medical-related urgencies. Due to the disruption of global supply chains, the industry may submerge into uncertainty due to, perhaps, lack of adequate labor force to dismantle increased EoL ships and due to disturbances of vessel transportation to the recycling nations amid strong precautionary measures. Our estimate suggests that about 300 million Gross Tonnage (GT) available for demolition in the next five years and the inability to get them recycled would cost about 20 billion dollars. More importantly, South Asian recycling nations would suffer from economic losses and employment opportunities. In this study, we also apply a scenario analysis technique to understand the impact range of COVID-19 in the short term and in the long term. The disruption is viewed through a circular economy framework, identifying a critical lack of ‘global scale’ acknowledgment in the circular economy framework. This article suggests that a formalized global scale, paralleled with favorable policies, may reduce supply chain disruption and improve sustainable development in the receiving nations.

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Circular economy in Latin America: A systematic literature review

Morales

Sossa

2020

Bus Strat Env

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The purpose of this study is to identify circular economy concept trends of Latin America with regards to Europe, in which a systematic review of literature (SRL) was made using Scopus data in order to define the search, to select the relevant articles, and to analyze the results. Seventy‐one articles from Scopus were reviewed, and the analysis was complemented by the analysis with 57 documents from other scientific Web browsers such as Mendeley, Scopus, Academic Google, ScienceDirect, and SciELo which sum a total of 128 documents which the majority have come from Europe. Main concepts were identified, barriers and trends. The main conclusion was which the current concept is not very clear; in spite of Europe knows that limitation, Latin America is making the same mistake implementation.

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The impact of technical and economic disruptions in industrial symbiosis relationships: An enterprise input-output approach

Cited by 33 publications

References 72 publications

Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study

Quantifying the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis: an agent-based simulation study

Disruption in Circularity? Impact analysis of COVID-19 on ship recycling using Weibull tonnage estimation and scenario analysis method

Circular economy in Latin America: A systematic literature review

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