Competitive benefits & incentivisation at internal, supply chain & societal level circular operations in UK agri-food SMEs
Competitive benefits & incentivisation at internal, supply chain & societal level circular operations in UK agri-food SMEs
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.060
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发表时间：
2022-05
影响因子：
11.3
通讯作者：
N. McDougall;B. Wagner;Jill MacBryde
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作者：
N. McDougall;B. Wagner;Jill MacBryde
循环运营提供了内在的环境和经济效益，并有望解决生态退化问题。循环经营也为企业或供应链提供了竞争优势，但这些优势被广泛忽视。竞争优势很重要，有助于降低成本和风险的障碍，并激励循环运营的实施。采用定性的多方法的方法，本研究探讨了循环经济在英国农业食品中小企业内部，供应链和社会层面的实施。以自然资源为基础的观点是一个理论透镜，它支持在每一级利用竞争性利益，并解释了它们在激励方面的作用。虽然环境经济效益仍然存在，但竞争效益却突出了。这支持了这样一种观点，即循环经营可以有目的地寻求竞争优势，而不是作为一种环境义务。这种新的竞争视角促进了循环经营的吸引力和可接近性，特别是对于实施可能存在问题的农业食品中小企业。
Circular operations offer embedded environmental and economic benefits, with promise to tackle ecological degradation. Circular operations also offer competitive benefits for the firm or supply chain, but these have been widely overlooked. Competitive benefits are important, helping to mitigate barriers of cost and risk and incentivise implementation of circular operations. Adopting a qualitative multi-method approach, this study explores implementation of the circular economy at internal, supply chain and societal levels in UK agri-food SMEs. A natural-resource-based view theoretical lens underpins exploitation of competitive benefits at each level and explains their role in incentivisation. Whilst environmental-economic benefits remain embedded, competitive benefits are brought to the fore. This supports the argument that circular operations can be implemented to purposefully seek competitive gain rather than as an environmental obligation. This new competitive perspective promotes appeal and approachability to circular operations, particularly for agri-food SMEs where implementation may be problematic.