Title: Collaborative circular business models in the tyre recycling

Authors: Inga Uvarova; Dzintra Atstaja

Addresses: BA School of Business and Finance, Riga, Latvia ' BA School of Business and Finance, Riga, Latvia

Abstract: The multi-stakeholder collaboration is one of enablers for circular business models (CBMs), involving various actors - the industry, academia, government and society or communities in the transdisciplinary setting. However, there is lack of approaches for sharing responsibilities and ownership in the circular value. The aim of this paper is to investigate existing concepts of collaborative approaches within CBMs, investigating following research questions: (1) What is the collaboration framework within CBMs, (2) What are enabling factors for collaborative CBMs, (3) How the collaboration is perceived within the tyre recycling CBMs. Findings reveal that the collaboration requires changes in the perception of the societal role in CBMs and the circular value chain. This research contributes to CBM theoretical concepts and practices. This study identifies dilemmas and the future research agenda related to the ownership of the shared circular value and the collaboration engagement.

Keywords: circular business models; circular value networks; collaboration; tyre recycling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2022.125556

International Journal of Green Economics, 2022 Vol.16 No.1, pp.76 - 100

Received: 23 Mar 2021
Accepted: 05 Apr 2022
Published online: 14 Sep 2022 *

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