Temporal Comparative Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in a Business Network: Opportunities of Circular Economy

Fabiane Florencio de Souza, Mariane Bigarelli Ferreira, Adriana Valélia Saraceni, Leozenir Mendes Betim, Tafael Lucas Pereira, Rodolfo Reinaldo Hermes Petter, Regina Negri Pagani, Luis Mauricio Martins de Resende, Joseane Pontes and Cassiano Moro Piekarski
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Fabiane Florencio de Souza: Technology Transfer Management, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Mariane Bigarelli Ferreira: Sustainable Production Systems Laboratory, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Adriana Valélia Saraceni: Advanced Systems Analysis, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg 2361, Lower Austria, Austria
Leozenir Mendes Betim: Organizational Engineering and Business Networks, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Tafael Lucas Pereira: Organizational Engineering and Business Networks, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Rodolfo Reinaldo Hermes Petter: Organizational Engineering and Business Networks, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Regina Negri Pagani: Technology Transfer Management, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Luis Mauricio Martins de Resende: Organizational Engineering and Business Networks, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Joseane Pontes: Organizational Engineering and Business Networks, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil
Cassiano Moro Piekarski: Sustainable Production Systems Laboratory, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR), Rua Doutor Washington Subtil Chueire, 330, Jardim Carvalho, Ponta Grossa 84017-220, Parana, Brazil

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: The objective of this work is to perform a temporal comparative analysis in a network of companies in the furniture sector, in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, presenting drivers through circular economy modeling. The study was performed applying the model proposed by Saraceni et al. (2017) in a network of Furniture companies in Concórdia, Brazil. The model diagnoses the presence of industrial symbiosis practices in five domains variables involving Technical, Economic, Political, Information and Organizational Factors, influencing three spheres: by-product exchange, service sharing, and managerial cooperation. The study addressed the positive relationship aspects of the circular economy as guidelines for improving the industrial symbiosis of the network. The results of data collection in 2019 were compared with the results of the application made in 2014. The comparison revealed a significant advance from 2014 to 2019 towards Industrial Symbiosis, highlighting that corrective actions and circular economy strategies may lead this business network to be the first Industrial Symbiosis case in Brazil in the next few years, meanwhile fostering the ecological network’s process to the country.

Keywords: industrial symbiosis; ecological networks; business networks; circular economy; industrial ecology; cooperation in management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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