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Exploring barriers to implementing different circular business models

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Vermunt, D.A., Negro, S.O., Verweij, P.A., Kuppens, D.V., Hekkert, M.P.·2019·Journal of Cleaner Production
DOI 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.052
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  • Interconnected barriers spanning financial, market, operational, organisational, policy, technological and intrinsic domains pose substantial systemic inertia, impeding CE implementation.

    “However, interconnected barriers spanning financial, market, operational, organisational, policy, technological and intrinsic domains pose substantial systemic inertia, impeding CE implementation (Tura et al. 2019;Vermunt et al. 2019;Rizos and Bryhn 2022).”

    From Integrating Life Cycle Assessment, Monetised Externalities and Value Alignment for Strategic Reconfiguration of Circular Business Models: The Case of Smartphones (2026) · cites this paper as Vermunt et al. 2019

    Section 2.2 (page not supplied) identifies financial, organisational, knowledge-and-technology, supply-chain, market and institutional barriers to implementing circular business models; institutional barriers include regulations. The Discussion and conclusions (page not supplied) finds many barriers interlinked. The paper does not identify an intrinsic barrier domain or explicitly establish the broader claim of systemic inertia across CE implementation. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  • The circular economy lacks integrated, holistic assessment frameworks that can bridge environmental performance, monetised externalities and strategic viability.

    “This disconnect highlights a persistent gap-although the CE concept is conceptually appealing, it lacks integrated, holistic assessment frameworks that can bridge environmental performance, monetised externalities and strategic viability (Tura et al. 2019;Vermunt et al. 2019).”

    From Integrating Life Cycle Assessment, Monetised Externalities and Value Alignment for Strategic Reconfiguration of Circular Business Models: The Case of Smartphones (2026) · cites this paper as Vermunt et al. 2019

    The Introduction discusses barriers to adopting circular business models, and the Discussion and conclusions describes challenges to their economic viability. Neither section says that the circular economy lacks assessment frameworks integrating environmental performance, monetised externalities and strategic viability. Searches for those assessment terms found no passage addressing the claimed framework gap. (LLM, conf=0.72)

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Authors
Vermunt, D. A., Negro, S. O., Verweij, P. A., Kuppens, D. V., & Hekkert, M. P.
Affiliations
Utrecht University (NL)
Corresponding author
Vermunt, D.A.
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Venue
Journal of Cleaner Production
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-06
Volume
222
Pages
891-902
ISSN
0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.052
OpenAlex
W2922027436
Cited by
358
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 41 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 65 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 6
FWCI
45.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO (438-14-903)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Sustainable Industrial Ecology
Keywords
circular business models, implementation barriers, resource recovery, product life extension, product-as-a-service, supply chain dependence, waste, internal and external barriers, circular economy, business model comparison

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