#4642. Business models for the circular economy: Empirical advances and future directions

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Circular economy has become a very popular topic worldwide, not only among policymakers, entrepreneurs, citizens but also academics. This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling”. Three main principles are the pillars of circular economy: (1) preserving and enhancing natural capital by controlling stocks of non-renewable resources and balancing renewable resource flows; (2) keeping products and materials in use at most in both biological and technical cycles; and (3) designing out wastes and negative environmental externalities such as pollution. Given the scope from firm-level product design, via collaborations across the value chain, to the infrastructures for product take back and related consumer action, the circular economy needs system innovations. This requires to embrace not only upstream aspects such as product design but also downstream “circular service operations”. The research field of circular business models, while very dynamic, is still strongly characterized by conceptual advances, for instance, conceptual taxonomies or typologies —the share of empirical studies is only increasing more recently. This special issue contributes to the academic debate collecting six empirical papers concerning the development and implementation of circular business models.
Keywords:
Circular economy; system innovations; consumer action; circular business models

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