Circular supply chains in manufacturingQuo vadis? Accomplishments, challenges and future opportunities

Title

Circular supply chains in manufacturingQuo vadis? Accomplishments, challenges and future opportunities

Creator

Bhattacharya A.; Srivastava S.; Majumdar A.

Description

Circular approach in manufacturing supply chain (SC) operations yields multiple benefits through optimal utilisation and consumption of resources. This study maps the scope and structure of circularity in the manufacturing SC discipline and explores the evolution of the domain over time. We review 946 journal articles published between 2013 and September 2023. Our study identifies key drivers and barriers to circular economy (CE) deployment in manufacturing SC operations, bibliometric parameters, emerging research themes, decision support tools, theories and applications. Using the theory extension approach, we propose a strategic framework to fortify the deployment of circularity in SCs. This comprehensive study renders a methodological contribution through combined descriptive content analysis and bibliometric and network analyses to evaluate the circular manufacturing SC operations concepts, theories and applications. We posit that manufacturing firms require to deploy innovation-led approaches to embed the CE strategies in their SC operations. We find that the studies investigating green skill development and circularity-culture adoption can facilitate manufacturers to understand the efficacy of circularity in their SC operations. The findings of this study can facilitate the practitioners to identify the links between the CE approaches and their strategic implications and examine CE implementation at the strategic level. 2024 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Source

Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol-33, No. 5, pp. 4397-4423.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Subject

circular economy; circular theories, strategies, applications; descriptive content analysis; manufacturing supply chain operations; network analysis

Coverage

Bhattacharya A., Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Srivastava S., Operations and Decision Sciences, Christ University, Bangalore, India, Department of Textile & Fibre Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India; Majumdar A., Department of Textile & Fibre Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

Rights

All Open Access; Hybrid Gold Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 9644733

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3702

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