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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Putting Circular Ambitions into Action : The Case of Accus, a Small Swedish Sign Company

Författare

  • Hervé Corvellec
  • Maira Babri
  • Herman I. Stål

Redaktör

  • Miguel Mendonca Reis Brandão
  • David Lazarevic
  • Göran Finnveden

Summary, in English

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.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2020

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Handbook of the circular economy

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Edward Elgar Publishing

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Framtidens skyltar visar vägen 2 (Signs of the future show the way 2)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9781788972710