Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Grassroots solutions to large-scale problemsHow circular start-ups contribute to the transformation towards a circular economy Marvin Henry mission-oriented innovation, and sustainability transitions.It aims to enrich the little theoretical substance that the concept of CE is often critiqued for (Corvellec et al., 2021).Chapter 5 CE is -and circular innovation are -not developed and diffused in silos but in context of other sustainable innovations and concepts related to sustainable development.Research on CSUs should be contextualised with existing work to prevent definitional dissent, to advance interdisciplinary exchange, and to strengthen the academic field.A concept that is often referred to by CSUs' is the sharing economy (SE).In that, CSUs build their strategies and business models on principles and mechanisms of SE such as collaborative consumption, rental mechanisms, open innovation and platform design.However, CE literature is barely linked with SE and provides little insight into sharing practices and approaches to collaborative consumption -apart from rather indirect links, e.g., in context of industrial symbiosis and service-based business models.There are examples of SE start-ups that have reached global scale and disrupted industries.Even though the distinct view on CSUs is a novel perspective in scientific literature, the struggles, pitfalls and opportunities faced by related ventures might yield relevant learnings and provide guidance and context for the analysis.Furthermore, a comparative examination of historic and present links between CE and SE will allow for mutual enrichments between the concepts and provide structure for these hyped and partly diluted topics.Thus, the fifth chapter of this thesis aims to answer the following research questions: What are the links between the concepts of CE and SE in scholarly literature?And how can the two literary bodies enrich each other?Chapter 5 focuses on the literary exchange between CE and SE and analyses links and relations as base for a mutual enrichment.For the analysis, a database was built that contained more than 4,500 articles on CE and SE which were published between 1996 and 2020.These articles were analysed with bibliometric and content analysis to identify 2 This chapter has been published in the Journal of Cleaner Production as
DOI: 10.33540/1584
Author: Henry, Marvin
Language: English
Subfield: Marketing
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Funder: Monash University
OpenAlex ID: W4310474273