| Title |
Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach |
| ID_Doc |
2348 |
| Authors |
De Angelis, R; Ianulardo, G |
| Title |
Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach |
| Year |
2024 |
| Published |
Business Strategy And The Environment, 33, 5 |
| DOI |
10.1002/bse.3730 |
| Abstract |
To enable corporations to bring about more responsible business practices, changes in the wider system within which businesses operate - including the mental models through which sustainability is understood in the management field - are necessary. Drawing on functioning principles in natural ecosystems - as embodied in circular economy thinking - this conceptual article proposes some constructs to inform the development of a sustainability management theory. We show that the potential for the circular economy to provide a sounder basis to sustainable management theory rests on its capacity to propose a socio-eco-systemic framework, which overcomes the separation between man and nature and is isomorphic to the conception proposed by the emerging complexity paradigm. Also, we show that, by imagining a new cognitive framework and evaluating the current linear model and the alternative circular model from a moral standpoint, the circular economy can be thought of as an exercise in moral imagination. |
| Author Keywords |
circular economy; moral imagination; nature principles; sustainability management theory; systems thinking |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:001179008500001 |
| WoS Category |
Business; Environmental Studies; Management |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| PDF |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/bse.3730
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