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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Critiques of the circular economy

Författare

  • Hervé Corvellec
  • Alison F. Stowell
  • Nils Johansson

Summary, in English

This paper presents a reasoned account of the critiques addressed to the circular economy and circular business models. These critiques claim that the circular economy has diffused limits, unclear theoretical grounds, and that its implementation faces structural obstacles. Circular economy is based on an ideological agenda dominated by technical and economic accounts, which brings uncertain contributions to sustainability and depoliticizes sustainable growth. Bringing together these critiques demonstrates that the circular economy is far from being as promising as its advocates claim it to be. Circularity emerges instead as a theoretically, practically, and ideologically questionable notion. The paper concludes by proposing critical issues that need to be addressed if the circular economy and its business models are to open routes for more sustainable economic development.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2022-04-11

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

421-432

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volym

26

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

MIT Press

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • circular business models
  • circular economy
  • critique
  • industrial ecology
  • review
  • sustainability

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Framtidens skyltar visar vägen 2 (Signs of the future show the way 2)
  • Circular North Sea Regions - Improving Governance for the Circular Economy
  • Relations in Circular Business Models

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1088-1980