Management Decision: Volume 62 Issue 9

Income inequality and circular materials use: an analysis of European Union economies and implications for circular economy development

Marinko Skare, Beata Gavurova, Martin Rigelsky

The purpose of the research was to evaluate the relationship between income and the recycled materials used in order to rate the business related to circular repair services under…

Bribery, female-led start-ups and product innovation performance in transition economies: the moderating roles of institutional support and self-control

Yonghui Wu, Xuemei Xie, Carlos Lassala, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete

Given that women around the world face more exclusion in terms of limited access to economic and innovation activities than men do, it is understandable that some female-led…

Achieving circularity is a distant dream: entrepreneurial barriers to circular business models in SMEs of emerging economies

Akash Saharan, Ashutosh Samadhiya, Anil Kumar, Krishan Kumar Pandey, Sunil Luthra, Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes

Circularity has acted as an essential phenomenon for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies, pressuring entrepreneurs to its adoption in their businesses…

Transitioning drivers from linear to circular economic models: evidence of entrepreneurship in emerging nations

Moein Beheshti, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Luis Rocha-Lona

Various publications have extensively documented the advantages of a circular economy in ensuring sustainability and limiting climate change. Despite academic records emphasising…

Sustainability-based enterprise supply chain optimization and response under circular economy approach: agile, adaptive and coordinated

Yanhong Wu, Renlan Wang

From a supply chain perspective, logistics firms collaborate with other supply chain members to extend their business scope. Investment in circular economy projects in the supply…

Exploring the impact of industrial robots on firm innovation under circular economy umbrella: a human capital perspective

Hong Luo, Huiying Qiao

A new round of technological revolution is impacting various aspects of society. However, the importance of technology adoption in fostering firm innovation is underexplored…

Corporate strategic positioning and environmental information disclosure under circular economy: evidence from China

Yiyang Gu, Peng Wu, Ruixue Du

The authors intend to investigate the relations between corporate strategic positioning and environmental information disclosure (EID) behaviors in the context of the circular…

An ISM-DEMATEL analysis of blockchain adoption decision in the circular supply chain finance context

Lu Wang, Jun Zhang, Jian Li, Huayi Yu, Jun Li

This study aims to provide a series of drivers that prompt the blockchain technology (BT) adoption decisions in circular supply chain finance (SCF) and also assesses their degrees…

Blockchain technology-based crypto assets: new insights into the evolution of the understanding of digital entrepreneurship

Klaus Ulrich, José Manuel Guaita Martínez, Patricia Carracedo, Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

The study aims to shed light on the concepts most addressed in scientific research, which blockchain topics are of most interest, how relevant are these tools for academia, and…

The impact of the industrial robots on the employment rate and wages: prospects of circular economy and sustainable development

Hongfei Zhu, Xiekui Zhang, Baocheng Yu

This study aims to investigate whether the increasing robot adoption will affect employment rate and wages to contribute to the economic cycle and sustainable development in the…

Revolutionizing supply chain and circular economy with edge computing: systematic review, research themes and future directions

Mohammadreza Akbari

The purpose of this study is to examine how the implementation of edge computing can enhance the progress of the circular economy within supply chains and to address the…

The path analysis of entrepreneurship impacts on circular economy in emerging markets: a mediating role of digital technology

Wentao Gu, Lixiang Li, Shangfeng Zhang, Ming Yi

The purpose of this article is to explore the impact of the firm's entrepreneurship for the transformation of circular economy (CE). The role of entrepreneurship is thought to be…

Industry 4.0 and global value chains: what implications for circular economy in SME?

Nathalia Suchek, João J.M. Ferreira, Paula O. Fernandes

Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV), this paper aims to analyse the relevance of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and participation in global value chains (GVC) and the…

Research on digital intelligence business model based on artificial intelligence in post-epidemic era

Bo Lv, Yue Deng, Wei Meng, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Tang

The 21st century has brought the business model earth-shaking changes, especially since the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic at the end of 2019. Now, the epidemic…