The Circular Economy (CE) is heralded as an important concept with the potential to guide businesses and society toward a more sustainable future. However, while collaboration widely accepted play central role in advancing circularity, little known about how organizations effectively work together achieve these outcomes. This particularly problematic given that any shift requires systematic app...

The evolution toward sustainable mining can be achieved by implementing circular economies (CEs), and one way forward is via product-service systems (PSSs). However, applying PSSs in the industry an area with little extant research. We seek to contribute CE sustainability research proposing a model which companies achieve circularity through their suppliers: something has not yet been explored....

Material efficiency is a key element of new thinking to address the challenges of reducing 12 impacts on the environment and of resource scarcity, whilst at the same time meeting service and 13 functionality demands on materials. Directly related to material efficiency is the concept of the 14 Circular Economy, which is based on the principle of optimising the utility embodied in materials 15 a...

the problem of the hermeneutical circle is one of the contentious issues in philosophical hermeneutics. this paper, begins with focusing on the question as to whether what hermeneuts mean by a hermeneutical circle is in fact a real circle with no analogical sense involved. recognizing that this problem is not confined to the relation between part and whole, this study confines itself to explore...

Promoting the circularity of business practices and product offerings is a pivotal process in increasing value circular products, coming with still underestimated effect on market response and, thus, firm performance. This study investigates communication intensity companies adopting economy (CE) practices, here aim assessing extent to which promoting increases their economic performance (measu...

The analysis of time is vitiated very often by circularity: several disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and neurosciences, analyze time by using concepts or terms which already contain in themselves, or are based, on the experience and notion of time (as when, for example, time is defined as “duration”, or when our ability to estimate durations is explained by resorting to...

Three basic positions regarding the nature of fundamental properties are: dispositional monism, categorical monism and the mixed view. Dispositional monism apparently involves a regress or circularity, while an unpalatable consequence of categorical monism and the mixed view is that they are committed to quidditism. I discuss Alexander Bird's defence of dispositional monism based on the structu...