Circular Economy in European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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Logistics and Supply Chain, Management of SMEs, Sustainable Development and CSR

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Circular Economy (CE) practices have the potential to enhance sustainability performance of organisations and therefore can help respond to United Nations Sustainability Development Goals. The aim of this research is to examine the adoption of CE in Euroepan small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and its impact on sustainability performance. We analyse the current state of CE practices and its impact on sustainability performance across key CE fields of action (design, procurement, production, distribution, consumption and recover) for SMEs in France, Greece, Spain and the UK A mixed-methods approach (survey, interviews, case studies) is undertaken to collect data from SMEs in each country, employing resource-based view as the theoretical lens.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108496

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Circular economy, Closed-loop supply chain, Economie circulaire, PME, Resource-based view, SMEs, Sustainability performance

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SOUMYADEB Chowdhury
Associate Professor
TBS Education

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