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Circular Economy for Emerging Economies

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 9196

Special Issue Editors

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Diagonal Las Torres 2640 Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Interests: Circular Economy, environmental Economics, Productivity, Supply-chain Management, Operation Research
Department of Social Sciences, Operations Research and Logistics, Wageningen University & Research, PO Box 8130, 6700EW WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands
Interests: circular economy; sustainable food supply chains; urban (last-mile) food logistics; sustainable food process engineering; operations research

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Dear Colleagues,

Earth’s climate, biodiversity, and resources are all at great risk as a product of a society centered on consumption (and waste) and based upon a linear economy. In this context, several governments have encouraged the concept of circular economy (CE). This model of development aims to replace the current “linear” view of the economy with another view that explicitly considers a more efficient use of resources and residuals, with the hope of decreasing environmental deterioration and achieving sustainable development.

The aim of this Special Issue is to review cases and recommend policies for the transition of emerging economies towards a circular economy.

Dr. Marcelo Villena
Dr. G.D.H. (Frits) Claassen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • CE indicators at different scales of analysis (country, urban, regional, company)
  • Natural resource management in the CE
  • Logistic challenges of the CE (reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chains)
  • Circular business models (new technologies, innovative design)
  • Circular urban metabolism case studies
  • Distributional and ethical issues

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Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis
by Solomon Gyamfi and Yee Yee Sein
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9088; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13169088 - 13 Aug 2021
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Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence, prior research has made efforts to incorporate the quality of [...] Read more.
Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence, prior research has made efforts to incorporate the quality of institutions into open innovation analysis. We can use a series of analyses to examine the impact of corruption, the tax system, and other indicators on firm innovation performance. However, developing economies, such as countries in sub-Saharan Africa, represent a specific group of countries that have long been perceived as those mostly deficient in the rule of law, with poor regulatory quality and a great deal of corruption. In these countries, it is also possible to see a lower number of studies, as the inability to obtain quality data to perform empirical analyses can often limit researchers. Nevertheless, employing data from the World Bank’s 2019 Enterprise Survey, this research aimed at exploring the determinants of sustainable open innovation as well as the effect of institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization and process innovation through a PLS structural equation model analysis. Our research showed interesting findings, such as the fact that the quality of institutions significantly affects firms’ use of OI instruments and capacity utilization. This research also provides for the novelty of the analysis of capacity utilization in an open innovation analysis. The results support the hypotheses that low institutional quality negatively affects firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments, and that there is a strong and positive effect of low institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization. In addition, we confirm the premise that firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments has a positive and significant influence on firms’ process innovation. Full article
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Integration of Digital Economy and Circular Economy: Current Status and Future Directions
by Zhen Liu, Jing Liu and Mohamed Osmani
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7217; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13137217 - 28 Jun 2021
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Circular economy (CE) is a concept actively advocated by the European Union (EU), China, Japan, and the United Kingdom. At present, CE is considered to grant the most traction for companies to achieve sustainable development. However, CE is still rarely adopted by enterprises. [...] Read more.
Circular economy (CE) is a concept actively advocated by the European Union (EU), China, Japan, and the United Kingdom. At present, CE is considered to grant the most traction for companies to achieve sustainable development. However, CE is still rarely adopted by enterprises. As the backbone of the fourth industrial revolution, the digital economy (DE) is considered to have a disruptive effect. Studies have shown that digital technology has great potential in promoting the development of CE. Especially during the COVID-19 epidemic that has severely negatively affected the global economy, environment, and society, CE and DE are receiving high attention from policy makers, practitioners, and scholars around the world. However, the integration of CE and digital technology is a small and rapidly developing research field that is still in its infancy. Although there is a large amount of research in the fields of CE and DE, respectively, there are few studies that look into integrating these two fields. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the research progress and trends of the integration of CE and DE, and provide an overview for future research. This paper adopts a bibliometric research method, employs the Web of Science database as its literature source, and uses VOSviewer visual software to carry out keyword co-occurrence analysis, which focuses on publication trends, journal sources, keyword visualization, multidisciplinary areas, life cycle stages, and application fields. Full article
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