Leveraging Capabilities of Technology into a Circular Supply Chain to Build Circular Business Models: A State-of-the-Art Systematic Review

Ahmed Zainul Abideen, Jaafar Pyeman, Veera Pandiyan Kaliani Sundram, Ming-Lang Tseng and Shahryar Sorooshian
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Ahmed Zainul Abideen: Institute of Business Excellence, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
Jaafar Pyeman: Institute of Business Excellence, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
Veera Pandiyan Kaliani Sundram: Institute of Business Excellence, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Malaysia
Ming-Lang Tseng: Institute of Innovation and Circular Economy (Ext. 1770), Asia University, Taichung City 41354, Taiwan
Shahryar Sorooshian: Faculty of Business, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-26

Abstract: The recent technological inclusions in supply chains are encouraging practitioners to continuously rethink and redesign these supply chains. Organizations are trying to implement sustainable manufacturing and supply chain practices to utilize their resources to the full extent in order to gain a competitive advantage. Circular supply chain management acts as the main pathway to achieve optimal circular business models; however, research in this area is still in its infancy and there is a need to study and analyze how the benefits of technology can be leveraged in conventional models to impact circular supply chains and build smart, sustainable, circular business models. To gain better familiarity with the future research paradigms, a detailed systematic literature review was conducted on this topic to identify the dynamics of this field and domains deserving further academic attention. A holistic and unique review technique was used by the authors to capture maximal insights. A total of 96 publications from 2010 to 2021 were selected from the Web of Science core collection database through strict keyword search codes and exclusion criteria, with neat integration of systematic and bibliometric analyses. The findings of this study highlight the knowledge gaps and future research directions, which are presented at the end of this paper.

Keywords: circular supply chain; circular business model; circular economy; business model innovation; sustainable business model; industry 4.0; systematic review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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