In today's competitive world, globalization touches all industries. The open innovation (OI)
paradigm has garnered increasing importance in academic research and industrial …

This paper contains a theory review of value creation and the implementation of next-
generation sustainable business models to profit in the circular economy. While previous …

Industry 4.0 has been considered a new industrial stage in which several emerging
technologies are converging to provide digital solutions. However, there is a lack of …

Much of the literature has investigated what the most innovative business models are in
order to successfully implement circular economy principles within a company. However, the …

Making the transition to a circular economy is an important goal for society and individual
companies, particularly in resource-intensive manufacturing industries. Yet the complexity …

Recent digital transformation initiatives facilitate the access to platform-based business
models on the demand side as well as enabling the necessary proximity to potential …

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in the implementation of the circular
economy (CE) concept as a basis for creating sustainable societies. Thus, the main …

In recent years, researchers and practitioners have increasingly paid attention to food waste,
which is seen as highly unethical given its negative environmental and societal implications …

As the circular economy (CE) gains traction in literature and practice, several academic
communities are opening up spaces that move away from the CE as a pure engineering …

This paper addresses questions of how extant research discourses concerning the
sustainability of supply chains contribute to understanding about circularity in supply chain …