Circular Economy: Overview of Barriers

Circular economy has emerged as a way to achieve sustainability. Although interest in the subject is growing rapidly, barriers to its implementation are still in place. In this study, a number of barriers are identified and grouped through a content analysis. The present article adopted bibliometric...

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Published in:Procedia CIRP 2018, Vol.73, p.79-85
Main Authors: Araujo Galvão, Graziela Darla, de Nadae, Jeniffer, Clemente, Diego Honorato, Chinen, Guilherme, de Carvalho, Marly Monteiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
barriers
bibliometrics
challenges
circular economy
qualitativy content analysis
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Summary:Circular economy has emerged as a way to achieve sustainability. Although interest in the subject is growing rapidly, barriers to its implementation are still in place. In this study, a number of barriers are identified and grouped through a content analysis. The present article adopted bibliometric research as a methodological approach. The research method combined bibliometric, networks and content analysis. The sample is composed of 195 articles extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus databases. The main barriers identified in the literature were: (i) technological, (ii)policy and regulatory, (iii) financial and economic, (iv) managerial, (v) performance indicators, (vi) customer and (vii) Social.
ISSN:2212-8271
2212-8271
DOI:10.1016/j.procir.2018.04.011