TY - JOUR
T1 - The Circular Economy
T2 - A new sustainability paradigm?
AU - Geißdörfer, Martin
AU - Savaget, Paulo
AU - Bocken, Nancy
AU - Hultink, Erik-Jan
N1 - Accepted author manuscript
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - While the terms Circular Economy and sustainability are increasingly gaining traction with academia, industry, and policymakers, the similarities and differences between both concepts remain ambiguous. The relationship between the concepts is not made explicit in literature, which is blurring their conceptual contours and constrains the efficacy of using the approaches in research and practice. This research addresses this gap and aims to provide conceptual clarity by distinguishing the terms and synthesising the different types of relationships between them. We conducted an extensive literature review, employing bibliometric analysis and snowballing techniques to investigate the state of the art in the field and synthesise the similarities, differences and relationships between both terms. We identified eight different relationship types in the literature and illustrated the most evident similarities and differences between both concepts.
AB - While the terms Circular Economy and sustainability are increasingly gaining traction with academia, industry, and policymakers, the similarities and differences between both concepts remain ambiguous. The relationship between the concepts is not made explicit in literature, which is blurring their conceptual contours and constrains the efficacy of using the approaches in research and practice. This research addresses this gap and aims to provide conceptual clarity by distinguishing the terms and synthesising the different types of relationships between them. We conducted an extensive literature review, employing bibliometric analysis and snowballing techniques to investigate the state of the art in the field and synthesise the similarities, differences and relationships between both terms. We identified eight different relationship types in the literature and illustrated the most evident similarities and differences between both concepts.
KW - Circular business model
KW - Circular Economy
KW - Closed loop
KW - Literature review
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable development
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.048
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.048
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008162813
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 143
SP - 757
EP - 768
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -