How companies navigate circular economy paradoxes: An organizational perspective.

The consideration and implementation by companies of only those circular economy (CE) practices involving economic returns (win-win solutions) is the result of a utopian and reductionist view of the circular transition. A more realistic and holistic perspective toward circular economy (CE) should recognize and embrace the complexities it entails and not be limited to only instrumental solutions. By drawing on the paradox theory, we delve into the conflicting issues that companies encounter in adopting circular initiatives and analyze the role of organizational attributes in the recognition and navigation of CE tensions.

Fostering the Circular Economy with Blockchain Technology: Insights from a Bibliometric Approach.

The circular economy is an emerging paradigm with important economic, environmental, and societal implications. As the world faces such paradigm shifts, new and radical technologies are urgently needed to enable it; blockchain technology can assist to accomplish the aforementioned circular economy shift given its decentralization and distributiveness principles as well as its smart contract capability. This study represents one of the first attempts to analyze those academic research domains together adopting a science mapping technique.