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Towards a circular disruption: On the pivotal role of circular economy policy entrepreneurs

Droege, Hinrika; Kirchherr, Julian; Raggi, Andrea; Ramos, Tomás B.

Authors

Hinrika Droege

Julian Kirchherr

Andrea Raggi

Tomás B. Ramos



Contributors

Pauline Deutz
Project Leader

Abstract

The shift towards sustainable development is argued to be achieved by a circular disruption triggered or supported by circular economy (CE) policies. CE policies can pressure the disruption of currently predominant linear socio-technical systems across sectors towards a circular paradigm. Knowledge on how these policies appear on the agenda is essential to accelerate the circular disruption. Several works highlight the importance of policy entrepreneurs as agenda setters. However, they were not explored by the scholarly community on CE yet. Therefore, this article analyses the characteristics and strategies of CE policy entrepreneurs in Portugal as a circular frontrunner in the European Union (EU). Two groups of policy entrepreneurs were distinguished based on their different characteristics and strategies. Successfully driving the adoption of national CE policies required ambitious, tenacious and perfectionist CE expert(s) who create a CE vision, derive concrete solutions and gather support for their ideas, the CE initiator. Influencing CE implementation and evaluation required politically savvy CE implementers who openly and tenaciously develop projects and secure the continuous development of the policy.

Citation

Droege, H., Kirchherr, J., Raggi, A., & Ramos, T. B. (2023). Towards a circular disruption: On the pivotal role of circular economy policy entrepreneurs. Business strategy and the environment : BSE, 32(3), 1142-1158. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3098

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 26, 2021
Online Publication Date Apr 25, 2022
Publication Date Mar 1, 2023
Deposit Date Nov 7, 2024
Publicly Available Date Nov 18, 2024
Journal Business Strategy and the Environment
Print ISSN 0964-4733
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 3
Pages 1142-1158
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3098
Keywords Circular economy; Disruption; Policy entrepreneur; Policy making; Stakeholder; Sustainable development
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4910495

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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.





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