CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS MODELS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

Resumen

This study seeks to identify emerging themes in Circular Economy (CE) among entrepreneurial models in order to advance academic research on the topic. A systematic review of the literature was conducted using Web of Science and Scopus which included 84 publications up to 2022. Next, inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied with the help of StArt (State of the Art through Systematic Review). The selected studies were then sorted into seven categories using Atlas.ti: Industrial Symbiosis, Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle, Circular Business Models, Sharing Platform, Producer-Consumer, and Product-Service Systems. The classification of these business models can result in opportunities to aid in making the energy sector more sustainable, in value creation, in the extension of product life cycles, in the reuse of raw materials. It can contribute to the study of indicators and metrics, to product design, and to waste management, and can also generate opportunities for entrepreneurs. These categories therefore can contribute to developing businesses which focus on CE, to generating opportunities for society more broadly, to institutions, and to organizations and entrepreneurs in general.