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Introducing a Circular Economy: New Thinking with New Managerial and Policy Implications
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Since the industrial revolution, we have been living in a linear economy. Our consumer and “single use” lifestyles have made the planet a “take, make, dispose” world. This refers to a unidirectional model of production: natural resources provide our factory inputs, which are then used to create mass-produced goods to be purchased and, typically, disposed after a single use. This linear economy model of mass production and mass consumption is testing the physical limits of the globe. It is, therefore, unsustainable and a shift toward a circular economy is becoming inevitable.
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- Authors
- Esposito, M., Tse, T., & Soufani, K.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Venue
- California Management Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2018-03-13
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 5-19
- ISSN
- 0008-1256 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-8564
- OpenAlex
- W2801219242
- Cited by
- 314
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- FWCI
- 42.61
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
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- California Management Review (publishedVersion)
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- Apollo
- 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 economy, linear economy, sustainable consumption, mass production, resource depletion, environmental sustainability, environmental policy
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