A Meta-Model of Inter-Organisational Cooperation for the Transition to a Circular Economy

Alessandro Ruggieri, Alessio Maria Braccini, Stefano Poponi and Enrico Maria Mosconi
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Alessandro Ruggieri: Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, via del Paradiso 47, 01100 Viterbo (VT), Italy
Alessio Maria Braccini: Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, via del Paradiso 47, 01100 Viterbo (VT), Italy
Stefano Poponi: Faculty of Economics, Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, via Don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166 Roma, Italy
Enrico Maria Mosconi: Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, via del Paradiso 47, 01100 Viterbo (VT), Italy

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: The transition to a circular economy bodes well for a future of environmentally sustainable growth and economic development. The implications and advantages of a shift to a circular economy have been extensively demonstrated by the literature on the subject. What has not been sufficiently investigated is how this paradigm can be enabled through the inter-organisational cooperation among different business enterprises. In order to illustrate this point, in this paper we aim to contribute to the circular economy debate by describing and discussing such a meta-model of inter-organisational cooperation. The present study is therefore based on the analysis of three cases from an equal number of industries, from which we identified factors of potential impact for the stimulation of cooperation in a circular economy perspective. Last, but not least, we discuss the relations between the case studies and try to formulate all possible implications for both managers and research.

Keywords: circular economy; inter-organisational cooperation; sustainability; meta-model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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