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| Author(s): |
Lobo, Ana
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Trevisan, Adriana Hofmann
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Liu, Qinglan
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Yang, Miying
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Mascarenhas, Janaina
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Scholz, SG
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Howlett, RJ
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Setchi, R
Total Authors: 8
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING, KES-SDM 2021; v. 262, p. 12-pg., 2022-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
This paper defines smart circular economy as an industrial system that uses digital technologies to implement circular strategies such as reduce, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. The smart circular economy has been regarded as a promising approach to enhance sustainability. However, barriers exist in various stages of the transition towards smart circular economy. This paper employs a systematic literature review to identify the main barriers that prevent companies from this transition. We adopt a change management perspective to study this transition and propose that it follows a classical three-step process of organizational change: unfreeze, move, and refreeze. We identified 24 barriers in five categories: finance, management, infrastructure, network, and technology. Then, we placed the barriers into the three steps to further investigate how they affect each stage of the transition. Our analysis suggests that: (a) stakeholders play a central role in the process; (b) companies often have financial issues in the early steps of change; (c) technological challenges emerge in the advanced steps. The findings can help diagnosecompanies' current status, identify solutions to tackle the barriers and predict future challenges. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/14462-0 - Mapping barriers and challenges to digitalization in a circular economic model |
| Grantee: | Ana Caroline Vieira Lobo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/23655-9 - Digitalization in business ecosystems to enable circular economy |
| Grantee: | Adriana Hofmann Trevisan |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |