Tiep Le, T., Behl, A. and Graham, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-9908-4974 (Cover date: December 2023) The Role of Entrepreneurship in Successfully Achieving Circular Supply Chain Management. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 24 (4). pp. 537-561. ISSN 0972-2696
Abstract
The notion of circular supply chain management (CSCM) is increasingly attracting the attention of academia, practitioners, and other stakeholders. It entails putting circular economy policies into place across the whole supply chain and supporting the ecosystem. In addition to this, the instability of the business environment due to objective factors such as pandemics and wars requires the business world to be proactively flexible to respond to changes. Therefore, the present paper aims to respond to the call for further research and evidence on the connection between industrial symbiosis practices (ISP) and CSCM. Specifically, it empirically examined the role of entrepreneurship in facilitating CSCM to achieve its sustainability goals. Furthermore, we analyze the mechanism by which circular economy entrepreneurship promotes ISP, thereby bolstering up CSCM. The industry's concentration is on small and medium agrifood firms, which are already active competitors in emerging economies. By accumulating and evaluating primary data from questionnaire-based surveys of 486 valid replies from supply chain managers who manage at either senior or middle levels in the firm, the results provide insight into the optimization mechanisms for CSCM. These promote regenerative value and no-waste processes from a unique perspective. In this regard, this study undertakes an empirical examination and proves how circular entrepreneurship and industrial symbiosis practices drive CSCM to score its sustainability goals.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management 2023. This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms), but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40171-023-00353-0. |
Keywords: | Circular entrepreneurship, Circular supply chain management, Flexibility, Industrial symbiosis, Supply chain flexibility, Sustainability goals |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Logistics, Info, Ops and Networks (LION) (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2023 10:04 |
Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s40171-023-00353-0 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202136 |