TY - JOUR
T1 - Temporal Comparative Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in a Business Network: Opportunities of Circular Economy
AU - de Souza, Fabiane Florencio
AU - Ferreira, Mariane Bigarelli
AU - Saraceni, Adriana Valélia
AU - Betim, Leozenir Mendes
AU - Pereira, Tafael Lucas
AU - Petter, Rodolfo Reinaldo Hermes
AU - Pagani, Regina Negri
AU - de Resende, Luis Mauricio Martins
AU - Pontes, Joseane
AU - Piekarski, Cassiano Moro
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to acknowledge the business network Concordia Furniture Center for contributing to this research. In addition, the authors would like to thanks the anonymous reviewers for the attention and pertinent suggestions on the improvement rounds. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - The objective of this work is to perform a temporal comparative analysis in a network of companies in the furniture sector, in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, presenting drivers through circular economy modeling. The study was performed applying the model proposed by Saraceni et al. (2017) in a network of Furniture companies in Concórdia, Brazil. The model diagnoses the presence of industrial symbiosis practices in five domains variables involving Technical, Economic, Political, Information and Organizational Factors, influencing three spheres: by-product exchange, service sharing, and managerial cooperation. The study addressed the positive relationship aspects of the circular economy as guidelines for improving the industrial symbiosis of the network. The results of data collection in 2019 were compared with the results of the application made in 2014. The comparison revealed a significant advance from 2014 to 2019 towards Industrial Symbiosis, highlighting that corrective actions and circular economy strategies may lead this business network to be the first Industrial Symbiosis case in Brazil in the next few years, meanwhile fostering the ecological network’s process to the country. View Full-TextKeywords: industrial symbiosis; ecological networks; business networks; circular economy; industrial ecology; cooperation in management
AB - The objective of this work is to perform a temporal comparative analysis in a network of companies in the furniture sector, in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, presenting drivers through circular economy modeling. The study was performed applying the model proposed by Saraceni et al. (2017) in a network of Furniture companies in Concórdia, Brazil. The model diagnoses the presence of industrial symbiosis practices in five domains variables involving Technical, Economic, Political, Information and Organizational Factors, influencing three spheres: by-product exchange, service sharing, and managerial cooperation. The study addressed the positive relationship aspects of the circular economy as guidelines for improving the industrial symbiosis of the network. The results of data collection in 2019 were compared with the results of the application made in 2014. The comparison revealed a significant advance from 2014 to 2019 towards Industrial Symbiosis, highlighting that corrective actions and circular economy strategies may lead this business network to be the first Industrial Symbiosis case in Brazil in the next few years, meanwhile fostering the ecological network’s process to the country. View Full-TextKeywords: industrial symbiosis; ecological networks; business networks; circular economy; industrial ecology; cooperation in management
U2 - 10.3390/su12051832
DO - 10.3390/su12051832
M3 - Article
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 12
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 5
M1 - 1832
ER -