TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating product design and supply chain management for a circular economy
AU - Burke, Haydn
AU - Zhang, Abraham
AU - Wang, Jason X.
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Abraham Zhang acknowledges partial funding support from the 2020 Endeavour Fund, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment of New Zealand (Project title: Āmiomio Aotearoa - A Circular Economy for the Wellbeing of New Zealand). The authors would like to thank the handling associate editor and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which have greatly helped improve the manuscript. They also appreciate all the interview participants who shared their knowledge and insights on the topic.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - Circular economy (CE) provides an alternative development model to the dominant take-make-dispose linear approach, and thus a new vision for solving sustainability challenges. Firms need to operationalise CE in their supply chain operations, starting from circular product design as the foundational step. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to integrate product design and supply chain management (SCM) decisions for a CE transition. A thematic analysis was conducted on data collected from 15 semi-structured interviews in New Zealand. Four propositions were established based on the identified themes, namely, end-of-life thinking in product design, circular SCM, business model innovation, and sustainable organisational values. The study results provide a novel insight into the integration of product design and SCM for a CE transition. The operational framework developed provides guidance to product designers, managers, and researchers to advance the CE cause at the supply chain level.
AB - Circular economy (CE) provides an alternative development model to the dominant take-make-dispose linear approach, and thus a new vision for solving sustainability challenges. Firms need to operationalise CE in their supply chain operations, starting from circular product design as the foundational step. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to integrate product design and supply chain management (SCM) decisions for a CE transition. A thematic analysis was conducted on data collected from 15 semi-structured interviews in New Zealand. Four propositions were established based on the identified themes, namely, end-of-life thinking in product design, circular SCM, business model innovation, and sustainable organisational values. The study results provide a novel insight into the integration of product design and SCM for a CE transition. The operational framework developed provides guidance to product designers, managers, and researchers to advance the CE cause at the supply chain level.
KW - Circular Economy
KW - Circular Product Design
KW - Supply Chain Management
KW - Business Model Innovation
KW - Circular Supply Chain
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U2 - 10.1080/09537287.2021.1983063
DO - 10.1080/09537287.2021.1983063
M3 - Article
VL - 34
SP - 1097
EP - 1113
JO - Production Planning and Control
JF - Production Planning and Control
SN - 0953-7287
IS - 11
ER -