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Session Type: Symposium
Program Session: 1811 | Submission: 15939 | Sponsor(s): (ONE, SIM, OMT)
Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 13 2019 9:45AM - 11:15AM at Westin Copley Place Boston in Defender
 
Circular Economy and Management Theory: Developing Theoretical Underpinnings for an Emergent Concept
Circular Economy and Management Theory
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Organizer: Hadi Chapardar, MacEwan U.
Discussant: Pratima Bansal, U. of Western Ontario
Discussant: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Cambridge Judge Business School
Presenter: Weslynne S. Ashton, Illinois Institute of Technology
Author: Andre Martins Nogueira, Illinois Institute of Technology
Author: Suzanne Gladys Tilleman, U. of Montana
Author: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Cambridge Judge Business School
Presenter: Raymond L. Paquin, Concordia U.
Author: Aglaia Fischer, Wageningen U.
Author: Stefano Pascucci, U. of Exeter
Presenter: Steven Kennedy, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U.
Presenter: Hadi Chapardar, MacEwan U.
Presenter: Pratima Bansal, U. of Western Ontario
Presenter: Laura Albareda, Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Author: Samuli Patala, Aalto U. School of Business
In recent years, the concept of circular economy (CE) has increasingly gained traction, especially among practice and policy communities. In academia, research on CE mainly deals with practical and technical aspects, with marginal attention to theory. A lack of common understanding of definition, assumptions, boundaries, principles, and goals of this ‘umbrella concept’ can result in ‘construct collapse’ (Hirsch & Levin, 1999). To add clarity and avoid deadlock, this Presenter Symposium aims to bridge CE and management theory by discussing some theoretical perspectives to investigate the complexities of the concept. To this end, the Symposium includes five conceptual and empirical studies, each adopting one or more theoretical lenses. Together, the five presentations address how the interactions between management theory and CE can both extend the theories to respond to the emerging business and society challenges and motivate business actions to close material loops.
The Circular Economy: Reshaping the Boundary of the Firm
Presenter: Weslynne S. Ashton, Illinois Institute of Technology
Presenter: Andre Martins Nogueira, Illinois Institute of Technology
Beginner’s Luck? Ad-Hoc versus Developing Capabilities Approaches for Closing Material Cycles
Presenter: Suzanne Gladys Tilleman, U. of Montana
Presenter: Raymond L. Paquin, Concordia U.
Presenter: Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Cambridge Judge Business School
Building a Circular Business Model: Learnings from the Fairphone-as- a-Service Community of Practice
Presenter: Aglaia Fischer, Wageningen U.
Presenter: Steven Kennedy, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U.
Presenter: Stefano Pascucci, U. of Exeter
The Interwoven Tensions of Circular Economy
Presenter: Hadi Chapardar, MacEwan U.
Presenter: Pratima Bansal, U. of Western Ontario
Circular Economy: Shift in Resource Use and Ownership
Presenter: Laura Albareda, Lappeenranta U. of Technology
Presenter: Samuli Patala, Aalto U. School of Business
  
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