Barriers to transitioning towards smart circular economy: A systematic literature review

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dc.contributor.authorLobo, Ana
dc.contributor.authorHofmann Trevisan, Adriana
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Qinglan
dc.contributor.authorYang, Miying
dc.contributor.authorMascarenhas, Janaina
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-19T14:55:13Z
dc.date.available2021-11-19T14:55:13Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-18
dc.description.abstractThis paper defines smart circular economy as an industrial system that uses digital technologies to implement circular strategies such as reduce, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. The smart circular economy has been regarded as a promising approach to enhance sustainability. However, barriers exist in various stages of the transition towards smart circular economy. This paper employs a systematic literature review to identify the main barriers that prevent companies from this transition. We adopt a change management perspective to study this transition and propose that it follows a classical three-step process of organizational change: unfreeze, move, and refreeze. We identified 24 barriers in five categories: finance, management, infrastructure, network, and technology. Then, we placed the barriers into the three steps to further investigate how they affect each stage of the transition. Our analysis suggests that: (a) stakeholders play a central role in the process; (b) companies often have financial issues in the early steps of change; (c) technological challenges emerge in the advanced steps. The findings can help diagnose companies’ current status, identify solutions to tackle the barriers and predict future challenges.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationLobo A, Hofmann Trevisan A, Liu Q, et al., (2021) Barriers to transitioning towards smart circular economy: A systematic literature review. In: SDM-2021 8th International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing, 16-17 September 2021, Split, Croatiaen_UK
dc.identifier.eisbn978-981-16-6128-0
dc.identifier.isbn978-981-16-6127-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6128-0_24
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/17289
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectSmart Circular Economyen_UK
dc.subjectSustainabilityen_UK
dc.subjectDigitalizationen_UK
dc.subjectChange Managementen_UK
dc.subjectBarriersen_UK
dc.titleBarriers to transitioning towards smart circular economy: A systematic literature reviewen_UK
dc.typeConference paperen_UK

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