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- Babri, Maira, 1986-, et al.
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Material affordances in circular products and business model development : for a relational understanding of human and material agency
- 2022
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Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:1, s. 79-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper uses the notion of material affordances to show that a focus on how people engage with materials helps understanding how organizations transit toward sustainability. Material affordances refer to the enablements and constraints afforded by materials to someone engaging with an environment for a particular purpose. Based on a qualitative study of a company's efforts at becoming circular, we show that material affordances are evolutive as organizational members shift focus from the development of products to the establishment of a circular business model. We also show that affordances are distributed across the company's circular ecosystem. Between what they enable and prevent, they invite humans to a dynamic engagement with materials that decenters human agencies to incorporate material agency in such efforts. A key contribution of the notion of material affordances is to put the relationships of humans and materials at the core of a transition toward circularity and sustainability.
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- Babri, Maira, et al.
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The circular economy : a geometry lesson
- 2023
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Ingår i: Social Europe. - 2628-7641.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Equating circularity with narrowing and slowing lets virtually all businesses join the bandwagon.
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- Corvellec, Hervé, et al.
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Evidencing the waste effect of Product-Service Systems (PSSs)
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Cleaner Production. - : Elsevier. - 0959-6526 .- 1879-1786. ; 145, s. 14-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper adopts a waste-centric analysis of Product-Service Systems (PSSs) to demonstrate that they do not automatically contribute to a dematerialization of the economy, a decoupling of production from material and energy consumption, and thus a transition toward sustainability. A qualitative analysis of various Nordic fashion PSSs that uses a combination of Tukker’s (2004) classification of PSSs and the European waste hierarchy model demonstrates that the waste effect of a PSS is independent of its being product-oriented, use-oriented, or result-oriented. Rather, the effect depends on how the business model of the PSS organizes material flows at production, distribution, use, and post-consumption stages in relationship to prevailing waste regimes where the PSS operates.We suggest that if a PSS is to reduce its waste effect and contribute to dematerialization, its business model should design material flows that fit with the prevailing waste regimes within the area it operates and prioritize waste prevention before considering reuse, recycling, energy recovery, and landfilling.
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- Corvellec, Hervé, et al.
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Putting Circular Ambitions into Action : The Case of Accus, a Small Swedish Sign Company
- 2020
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Ingår i: Handbook of the circular economy. - 9781788972710
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents a case study of how Accus, a small Swedish company, worked on developing a circular business model for light sign production and installation to become more sustainable. Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT), the Accus case shows that circular business model development is a cooperative endeavor that rests on bringing together a large and changing array of human, as well as non-human, actors in a development process that is hesitant, imprecise, provisory, contingent, and reversible. The case exemplifies the difficulties for a small company to enroll other actors in a transition to circular business, and initiate a shift toward a parsimonious material order that challenges, transforms, and replaces worked-in linear supplier-customer relationships. Good intentions only reach up to a certain point. If more than exceptional firms are to successfully find partners to translate their circular ambitions into circular business practices, the competitive strength of linear solutions needs to be drastically reduced and delegitimized.
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- Corvellec, Hervé, et al.
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Putting circular ambitions into action: the case of Accus, a small Swedish sign company
- 2020
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Ingår i: Handbook of the Circular Economy. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788972710 ; , s. 266-277
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents a case study of Accus, a small Swedish light sign company which began with circular business model development for environmental reasons. Drawing on Actor Network Theory (ANT), it shows that circular business model development is a collective endeavor that rests on bringing together a large array of human, as well as non-human, actors in a development process that is hesitant, imprecise, provisory, contingent, and reversible. The conclusion is that a transition to circular business models amounts to a shift toward a material order, and a corresponding suggestion is made that the competitive strength of linear solutions needs to be drastically reduced if firms are to successfully translate their circular ambitions into circular business practices.
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- Corvellec, Hervé, et al.
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Qualification as corporate activism : How Swedish apparel retailers attach circular fashion qualities to take-back systems
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier. - 0956-5221 .- 1873-3387. ; 35:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explains how corporations can develop market-based activities to influence environmental policies. The empirical focus is on how Swedish apparel retailers qualify take-back systems for used clothes and textiles assteps toward creating circular fashion. An analysis of the qualities that retailers attach to take-back systemsshows how qualification helps corporations feature fashion as potentially sustainable and able to develop circularmaterial flows, with the aim to enroll staff, customers, and other stakeholders in new behaviors andpatterns of responsibility. We apply the notion of corporate activism to demonstrate how corporations usequalification to engage in market-based activities with the aim of influencing the regulatory agenda.
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