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Circular Business Models and Sustainability Strategies

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The transition to a markedly more circular and resource-efficient economy requires a more widespread penetration of circular business models, in which environmental pressures associated with economic production and consumption are significantly reduced. The notion of circular economy has gained prominence on policymakers’ agendas worldwide, resulting, for example, in the European Circular Economic package. The concept has also become an important field of academic research, with a considerable increase in articles and journals covering this topic in the last decade. However, most of them have an economic approach purely (i.e., in countries). Thus, they have forgotten the role business and society play in the circular economy, as agents of change of current economic models based on over-consumption mainly.

By nature, a circular economy encompasses multiple systems at local, regional, and national levels through a holistic and systemically sustainable long-term approach. In the literature on sustainable business models, value capture is extended from economic value to include also social and environmental values. The main challenges related to value creation and value capture are designing circular business models to bring the firm economic value and environmental and social benefits. Moving from a linear to a circular economy requires innovative business models design, new visions and new forms of organization and sustainable strategies. However, the fact is that the idea of a circular economy that offers new ways to create more sustainable economic growth models is taking shape all over the world.

This Special Issue particularly welcomes papers that highlight recent developments and methodological contributions of circular business models and sustainability strategies. It aims to contribute to a greater understanding and development of sustainable solutions on how to manage and lead a sustainable business by incorporating circular economy principles in its strategies to support sustainable growth.

Editors

  • Jesús Peña-Vinces Jesús Peña-Vinces , 

    Jesús Peña-Vinces

    Prof. Jesus Peña-Vinces is an Assoc. Professor at Universidad de Sevilla (Faculty of Economics and Business). He has been Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford (LAC- School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies). Visiting scholar at the University of Houston and visiting faculty of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University. Also; he is a visiting professor at several universities in Latin America. Before starting his academic career, he was a businessman in the wood industry (Lima-Perú). His research topics are i.a. focused on competitiveness (economic policy and strategy), development-sustainability, human capital.

  • João J. Ferreira João J. Ferreira , 

    João J. Ferreira

    João J.M. Ferreira is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal, and an affiliated member of the UBI Research Unit in Business Sciences (NECE). He holds a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Scientific Head of the Doctoral Program in Management and served as coordinator of NECE during 2013-2021. He has edited or co-edited several books on strategy and entrepreneurship and published more than 200 papers in premier international journals, including Regional Studies, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management etc.

  • Marina Dabić Marina Dabić  &

    Marina Dabić

    Professor Marina Dabić is a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia, and School of Business and Economics, University of Ljubljana Slovenia. She co-edited several books on innovation, technology management, decision and entrepreneurship and published over 200 papers in premier international journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management etc.

  • Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

    Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

    Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (PhD, MBS, Psy.) is Full Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT (Colombia). Maria Alejandra was the Vice-President of Administration at the Academy of International Business (AIB) (August 2015- August 2018) and regional chapter chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (AIB-LAC) (July 2018-July 2021), member of the global council of the Sustainable Development Goal number 1 (SDG 1: End Poverty) of the World Government Summit (WGS) (2018-2020, 2021-2024), coordinator of the Colombian universities in the virtual institute of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2009-2019);

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