Circular economic ‘decisional’ thinking has biological basis. Paradigm for circular economic leadership is emerging; economic leader who understands, develops, creates, engages and inspires, ending conventional thinking, understanding how to engage and influence others and activate openness...

The climate crisis requires that economies around the world achieve carbon Net Zero by 2050. However, average annual GHG emissions during the 2010s have continued to increase (albeit at a decelerating rate) relative to global emissions in the first decade of the 21st century (IPCC AR6). Most of...

Assessing the economic consequences of sustainable production choices aimed at reducing environmental negative externalities is crucial for policy making, in light of the increasing interest and awareness experienced in the recent EU policy packages (Circular Economy package; European Green Deal...

Applying clustering techniques, this paper identifies homogeneous groups of enterprises within the heterogeneous landscape of the italian manufacturing tissue. The algorithm will be fed with data from a survey on a cross-section of SMEs in 2019. The set of questions span from economic and...

This paper builds on the available knowledge on what drives firms' production choices towards circular economy practices to shed new light on a so far quite neglected dimension: the role of organizational settings. Being the transition to a more circular economy systemic in nature, it draws not...