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This paper finds out the social and practical importance of digitisation and CE and
how it increased in the last decade among the scholars to conduct research on this
topic.
This study finds out few barriers and enabler of implementing digital technologies
for CE. Barriers – cost effective concern, lack of policy and regulations, low pressure
from the market, lack of environmental education, In formation vulnerability.
Enablers -ecosystem collaboration, reverse logistic, valorisation and resource
recovery, waste segregation.
This study states that there are few sectors such as -health care, Agri food,
education, fashion, urban sector where digitisation and transition to CE has been
highly successful.
The literature study of this paper focuses on the greatness of digitisation as an
enabler for the transition of CE and also find out AI and IOT as two great
technology in CE literature.
Kristoffersen, E., Blomsma, F., Mikalef, P. and Li, J., 2020. The smart circular economy: A
digital-enabled circular strategies framework for manufacturing companies. Journal of
business research, 120, pp.241-261.
This paper finds out there is little insight of supporting guidance and capabilities of
business analytics for achieving the full potential of CE by the application of digital
technology with a aim to achieve the 12th sustainable development goal in the
manufacturing companies.
The literature of this study finds that the policy initiatives are still underway and
there is still a gap between theory and practice and at a pre-paradigmatic state.
One of the results of this study shows how DT can help circular strategies in
operational level to unburden the human decision making and how DT can aid
circular strategies related to corporate strategies with virtualizing everything such as
time, location and human observation .
This paper also set a smart CE frame work by providing the process and levels of data
transformation , resource optimization capabilities and data flow process.
Ranta, V., Aarikka-Stenroos, L. and Väisänen, J.M., 2021. Digital technologies catalyzing
business model innovation for circular economy—Multiple case study. Resources,
conservation and recycling, 164, p.105155.
This paper focuses on the lack of understanding of how DT can help small firms in
real life setting by improving resource flow and value creation and capture and
suggests managers to create radical business model innovations by the help of DT.
The literature review of this study shows the role of DT in case of BMI by improving
CEBM strategies, models, managerial practices, and a major enabler of product
service system.
By analysing the data from the different case studies this study finds that the DT like
IOT or Cloud technology helps CE business models in several ways with incremental
and radical improvements.
One of the limitations of this study to use a qualitative approach that can be biased
but they tried to mitigate this by theory based coding and researcher triangulation .
Govindan, K., 2023. How digitalization transforms the traditional circular economy to a smart
circular economy for achieving SDGs and net zero. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics
and Transportation Review, 177, p.103147.
This paper focuses on how smart CE can influence in achieving SDG and Net Zero with
filling the gap of recent research on CE-SDG-NET Zero relationships as the research
conducted on them lacks the real-life information.
The literature of this study shows that there are research been carried out on the
relation between CE and SDG but there is no single study that relates CE with Net zero,
taking leather industry as an example .
The Literature also find that all the existing research are limited to understand the term
‘Technology’ as a key transition of smart CE to achieve SDG and Net Zero .
The case study shows that compared to other sectors such as automobiles and
electronics ,textile industry has got less attention and some of the impacts of this
industry are overlooked such as – dye waste and effluents.
There are few success factor in case of technological aspect the research has found such
as -digital self service technology, modular technology .
This study find that the most influential successful factor in case of textile industry to
achieve Net Zero and SDG is adopting refurbish and the least influential success factor is
the global proximity.
Bressanelli, G., Adrodegari, F., Perona, M. and Saccani, N., 2018. The role of digital
technologies to overcome Circular Economy challenges in PSS Business Models: An
exploratory case study. Procedia Cirp, 73, pp.216-221.
The literature of this study shows that PSS and BW as the enabler for the transition
to CE for the companies facing major challenges, but little attention has been drawn
on how DT can help to overcome this challenges.
The result shows that how IOT and Big data and analytics can help to overcome the
challenges in most cases driving from the case study except the financial risk and
cannibalisation.
This researcher find this study limited in case of generalisation of the key factors of
DT as the research was conducted on only one case study and not all the DT
highlighted by the industry was explored.
DT used for this case study can help to overcome few challenges such as loss of
ownership, users willing to pay and return flow uncertainties’ .
1.Uçar, E., Le Dain, M.A. and Joly, I., 2020. Digital technologies in circular economy transition:
evidence from case studies. Procedia cirp, 90, pp.133-136.
In this paper as discussed in the case study found DT as both enabler and trigger, as an
enabler DT acts as a facilitator for the development of CE and improves the collaboration
between actors and ecosystem and as a trigger it shows how DT can initiate and lead to
innovation process related to the company’s routes and mechanisms.
This paper affirms that it is the first research paper to identify the role of DT in CE using
business model logic and says that there was no research done before on the relation
between DT functionalities and circular business model canvas.
This Paper tries to explore the relationship between CE and DT by using the Business
model canvass and the R principles (reuse, remanufacture and recycle ).
2.Trevisan, A.H., Zacharias, I.S., Castro, C.G. and Mascarenhas, J., 2021. Circular economy
actions in business ecosystems driven by digital technologies. Procedia CIRP, 100, pp.325-
330.
This paper aims to explore the gap that was not addressed before that is the link
between CE and ecosystems structured by DT.
The literature emphasizes on the existence of the companies in a structure of
ecosystem that is interdependent and linked to each other in transition towards CE
by the help of DT.
This study suggests that circular economy can be applied to business ecosystem,
namely – product, process, service and dematerialization and also asserts that
transactional ecosystem is more focused on service and dematerialisation.
Technologies like ICT, IOT and Bi data were applies for the cases but the application
of Block chain and AI which can have potential role to boost CE were not explored in
this study.
8. Schoeggl, J.P., Rusch, M., Stumpf, L. and Baumgartner, R.J., 2023. Implementation of digital
technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector.
Sustainable Production and Consumption, 35, pp.401-420.
This papers found that among four DTs , Big data analytics and IOT technology is most widely
implemented and their use is very limited in sustainable development and in a pilot phase.
After considering the data and statistics of the different industries , this papers shows that
construction, machinery and metals ,electronics are more advanced in using DTs and food,
wood and textiles sectors are less advanced for achieving sustainable development and for
applying CE business models.
This study finds that the of the use of IOT has achieved a higher level of maturity among the
companies as a mean for automated and continuous data collection process and sharing and
there is an increase of the regulatory pressure related to the adoption of IOT technologies.
In applying the DT for the CE , not only the size of the companies matter but also it is
company specified and depending on the value proposition and value chain position .
9. Sharma, M., Joshi, S. and Govindan, K., 2023. Overcoming barriers to implement
digital technologies to achieve sustainable production and consumption in the food
sector: A circular economy perspective. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 39,
pp.203-215.
This paper find out ‘organisational barriers ‘ as the prime among all the barriers
for adopting DT for sustainable production and consumption in food supply
chains and suggests that the commitment from the top management is the best
way to overcome these barriers.
The literature review identifies few barriers for applying DT in SPC such as lack of
policy interventions, cost for applying the DT, the need to improve transparency
while initiating the culture of adaptability.
This paper suggests that to achieve sustainable development, the organisation
have the concern for skilled workforce with DT knowledge and must make a
fundamental and transformative change.
The cross-sector collaboration is one of the useful strategies for different food
retail internet economics by using big data to improve the design of product
network.
10. Wu, D. and Pi, Y., 2023. Digital technologies and product-service systems: A
synergistic approach for manufacturing firms under a circular economy. Journal of
Digital Economy, 2, pp.37-49.
This paper explored the relationship between PSS and CE and find that DT
has a positive impact to act as an enabler for PSS deployment and various
ways of adapting DT can integrate toolsets that can satisfy product demand
and can increase service quality.
In the competitive manufacturing sector to meet the expectations of the
customers ,they need to increase the service accessibility and offer value
added services and for that new business models lie PSS offers high quality
service to meet the demand but this sector lacks the enabling technologies
to implement PSS.
The literature review shows for enabling CE ,PSS can be an effective
business model but most of the studies find that they are still conceptual in
nature and how DT can be implemented in practice for PSS is still missing.
In the methodology section , the paper shows that the primary data was
collected by taking semi structured interview but there is no specification
of the individuals whom interviews were taken that potentially makes the
outcome of this research .
11.Planing, P., 2017. Will digital boost circular? Evaluating the impact of the
digital transformation on the shift towards a circular economy. Int. J.
Manag. Cases, 19, pp.22-31.
This paper find out DT has immense potential to have a spark for the CE by
improving asset utilization, recovering pure material flow , enabling
refurbishment only if the regulatory ,social and economic viabilities are
met .
This papers shows that the business models enabling CE will be more
attractive to the customers if there are more successful example of DT
implementation comes into light like e publishing and car sharing that gives
more opportunities for digital business models.
The findings of this study believes that the financial benefits alone can not
contribute to the transition of digital CE ,the psyche and the acceptance of
the consumer, stakeholder motivation can play a great role for advancing in
this sector.
12 .Cagno, E., Neri, A., Negri, M., Bassani, C.A. and Lampertico, T., 2021. The role of digital
technologies in operationalizing the circular economy transition: A systematic literature
review. Applied Sciences, 11(8), p.3328.
This paper identifies there are limited circular aspects in consideration of DT with
the shortcomings like lack of integration and holistic approach of the
relationships and empirically there is more need of investigation in decision
making process.
From the findings of this study by reviewing different research studies on this
field ,it is found that the number of research is more in a theoretic approach and
the content needs an empirical approach.
This paper also finds out the DT has the proven ability to facilitate the
cooperation and connection among firms and industrial symbiosis that helps to
build a interdependent environment to promotes the CE .
According to this paper ,after reviewing all the data it says that the most
discussed aspects related to CE were CBM, SCM and DIGIT and in case of the
resolve areas the main addressed areas were on exchange and optimize and the
most considered single use DTs are IOT and DBA .
13. Bellini, A. and Bang, S., 2022, December. Barriers for data management as an enabler
of circular economy: an exploratory study of the Norwegian AEC-industry. In IOP Conference Series:
Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 1122, No. 1, p. 012047). IOP Publishing.
This paper finds out there are different barriers that is hindering the proper
implementation of DT in CE and some of the identified barriers are – lack of
data availability and interoperability, unwillingness to share data and lack of
competence and lack of collaborative approach.
Being one of the least digitally advanced ,the construction industry made
an immense development by digitalizing the sector over the last few years
and this research shows that there are few technologies such as BIM,
IOT ,AI .Digital twins that can help this sector to be more sustainable .
This paper argues that there was research conducted previously on barriers
related to digitisation of construction sector or CE but not specifically on
digitisation of data collection and management as an enabler so this
research is an empirical study of the validation of the perceived barriers in
digitising of CE in construction sector.
In the construction sector most material mapping takes place at the end of
life phase before it is deconstructed ,so this study suggest that the motive
of the CE in AEC industry depends on the availability of data and adoption
of material passport for both new or existing buildings.
14. Khan, S.A.R., Zia‐ul‐haq, H.M., Umar, M. and Yu, Z., 2021. Digital technology and
circular economy practices: An strategy to improve organizational performance. Business Strategy &
Development, 4(4), pp.482-490.
This study finds that BCT has positive influence on all dimensions of CE
practices such as circular procurement, circular design and that can be a
driving force to improve organisational performance.
The literature of this study argues that the BCT can ensure the availability of
data that can prevent from data tempering, false ownership if that applies to
supply chain process that can reduce cost and improve efficiency.
The adoption of ecofriendly and green techniques for CE practices can reduce
waste and harmful emissions that eventually helps a company to achieve
sustainable performance and resource efficiency.
15. Böhmecke‐Schwafert, M., Wehinger, M. and Teigland, R., 2022. Blockchain for the
circular economy: Theorizing blockchain's role in the transition to a circular economy through an
empirical investigation. Business Strategy and the Environment, 31(8), pp.3786-3801.
This paper shows that blockchain can support the three principles of
CE (reduce, reuse and recycle) and it can facilitate traceability in supply
chain management and also find that the general technical challenges
such as -premature blockchain solutions, threat of inaccurate data
entry known as oracle problem negatively influence blockchain CE
innovation.
The literature shows that the concept of CE is evolving, and two
primary implementation approaches have emerged one from the
government policy and bottom-up forces driven by the stakeholders
such as enterprises, environmental organizations, and civil society.
This study finds out the transition to CE usually hampered by the
harder factors such as (technical/financial / economic and market
factors) like the investment cost, lack of available technical solutions .
In case of the cultural and social barriers the most important thing is
trust and credibility, this papers say that Blockchain can eliminate
those barriers by crating trust between the producer and consumer .
16. Neligan, A., Baumgartner, R.J., Geissdoerfer, M. and Schöggl, J.P., 2023.
Circular disruption: Digitalisation as a driver of circular economy business models. Business Strategy
and the Environment, 32(3), pp.1175-1188.
17. Trevisan, A.H., Zacharias, I.S., Liu, Q., Yang, M. and Mascarenhas, J., 2021.
Circular economy and digital technologies: A review of the current research streams. Proceedings of
the design society, 1, pp.621-630.
18. Khan, S.A.R., Piprani, A.Z. and Yu, Z., 2022. Digital technology and circular
economy practices: future of supply chains. Operations Management Research, 15(3), pp.676-688.
20. Pagoropoulos, A., Pigosso, D.C. and McAloone, T.C., 2017. The emergent
role of digital technologies in the Circular Economy: A review. Procedia cirp, 64, pp.19-24.
21. Rukanova, B., Tan, Y.H., Hamerlinck, R., Heijmann, F. and Ubacht, J., 2021. Digital
Infrastructures for Governance of Circular Economy: A Research Agenda. EGOV-CeDEM-ePart-*,
pp.191-198.
22. Ghoreishi, M. and Happonen, A., 2020. New promises AI brings into circular
economy accelerated product design: a review on supporting literature. In E3S web of
conferences (Vol. 158, p. 06002). EDP Sciences.
24. Kovacic, I., Honic, M. and Sreckovic, M., 2020. Digital platform for
circular economy in aec industry. Engineering Project Organization Journal, 9.(Incomplete )
25. Magrini, C., Nicolas, J., Berg, H., Bellini, A., Paolini, E., Vincenti, N.,
Campadello, L. and Bonoli, A., 2021. Using internet of things and distributed ledger technology for
digital circular economy enablement: The case of electronic equipment. Sustainability, 13(9), p.4982.
26. Liu, Q., Yang, L. and Yang, M., 2021. Digitalisation for water sustainability:
Barriers to implementing circular economy in smart water management. Sustainability, 13(21),
p.11868.
28. Bressanelli, G., Adrodegari, F., Perona, M. and Saccani, N., 2018. Exploring
how usage-focused business models enable circular economy through digital
technologies. Sustainability, 10(3), p.639.
29. Bressanelli, G., Adrodegari, F., Pigosso, D.C. and Parida, V., 2022. Towards the
smart circular economy paradigm: A definition, conceptualization, and research
agenda. Sustainability, 14(9), p.4960.
This paper finds out that despite having the potential of DTs
in CE transition the convergence of these two is still under
investigation and the literature still lacks to show that how
DTs can contribute to create value for CE.
This paper shows how DTs like IOT, blockchain, 3D printing
can create environmental, social and economic value in a
smart circular economy paradigm.
This paper shows that DTs are not an end in themselves
rather a mean to shape the CE that can create value and also
propose to adapt a principle of waste equals to food to an
equation more fitted waste +data = resource for digital age.
30. D’Amico, G., Arbolino, R., Shi, L., Yigitcanlar, T. and Ioppolo, G., 2021.
Digital technologies for urban metabolism efficiency: Lessons from urban agenda partnership on
circular economy. Sustainability, 13(11), p.6043.
32. Han, Y., Shevchenko, T., Yannou, B., Ranjbari, M., Shams Esfandabadi, Z.,
Saidani, M., Bouillass, G., Bliumska-Danko, K. and Li, G., 2023. Exploring how digital technologies
enable a circular economy of products. Sustainability, 15(3), p.2067.
This paper tries to find out the research gap of how various
industries can apply DTs across the entire product lifecycle to
operate CE strategies and different stages of product lifecycle.
This paper states that different DTs such as IOT, cloud
computing, Al has the potential to contribute for improving CE
business models considering the environmental and economic
costs and are balanced with benefits.
This paper abstractly gives an analysis of the interaction of PSS
business model and finds that there can be an improvement of
reverse supply chains and can make c effective connection
among consumers, manufacturers and recyclers through DTs.
33. Kandasamy, J., Venkat, V. and Mani, R.S., 2023. Barriers to the adoption of digital
technologies in a functional circular economy network. Operations Management Research, 16(3),
pp.1541-1561.
This paper tried to find out different barriers of implementing DTs for
CE and finds that the most influential barrier is the negative
perception towards technology and suggest managers to emphasise
the top most priority for avoiding disruption in the system.
This paper particularly focuses on the two most important barriers
that is unclear government policy and lack of knowledge and
expertise and also suggests that some of these barriers can be
eliminated by raising awareness on DTs.
Though this study analysed the data by two different methods one of
them is TISM model, but the research is more focused on the
qualitative analysis and it needs more quantitative analysis
34. Sica, D., Esposito, B., Malandrino, O. and Supino, S., 2022. The role of digital
technologies for the LCA empowerment towards circular economy goals: a scenario analysis for the
agri-food system. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, pp.1-24.
36. Neri, A., Negri, M., Cagno, E., Franzò, S., Kumar, V., Lampertico, T. and
Bassani, C.A., 2023. The role of digital technologies in supporting the implementation of circular
economy practices by industrial small and medium enterprises. Business Strategy and the
Environment, 32(7), pp.4693-4718.
37. Okorie, O., Salonitis, K., Charnley, F., Moreno, M., Turner, C. and Tiwari,
A., 2018. Digitisation and the circular economy: A review of current research and future
trends. Energies, 11(11), p.3009.
This research used the term technology life cycle for developing for
the integrative framework and it was identified in the literature as
confused and incomplete and that can be misunderstood with the
terms alike industry life cycle and product life cycle.
38. . Rusch, M., Schöggl, J.P. and Baumgartner, R.J., 2023. Application of digital
technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy: A review. Business Strategy
and the Environment, 32(3), pp.1159-1174.
This paper finds that the use of DTs has significantly improved
SSCM ,business models and product design by enhancing the
efficiency ,transparency and trustworthiness between stakeholders
and also suggests that the personal and intraorganizational issues
must be considered as well.
This paper shows that a holistic and an interdisciplinary approach
can reveal new application and implementation approaches by
more empirical research and shows that the use of DTs has clear
managerial implications too .
This paper finds out DTs can provide new possibilities for more
dynamic SPM but are insufficient currently in integration for such
activities but DTs can help improving a variety of sustainability areas
in efficiency, optimization and reducing cost.
39. Fanta, G.B., Pretorius, L.E.O.N. and Nunes, B.R.E.N.O., 2021. Enabling circular
economy in healthcare using industry 4.0 digital technologies. In Proceedings of the 30th
International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT.
40. Chiaroni, D., Del Vecchio, P., Peck, D., Urbinati, A. and Vrontis, D., 2021.
Digital technologies in the business model transition towards a circular economy. Resources,
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42. Nham, N.T.H., 2022. Making the circular economy digital or the digital
economy circular? Empirical evidence from the European region. Technology in Society, 70,
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46. Garmulewicz, A., Holweg, M., Veldhuis, H. and Yang, A., 2018. Disruptive
technology as an enabler of the circular economy: what potential does 3D printing hold? California
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48. Charef, R., Morel, J.C. and Rakhshan, K., 2021. Barriers to implementing the
circular economy in the construction industry: A critical review. Sustainability, 13(23), p.12989.
50. Stein, N., Spinler, S., Vanthournout, H. and Blass, V., 2020. Consumer
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