Circular Business Models: Developing a Sustainable Future

✍ Scribed by Mats Larsson (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the need to develop business strategies, organise and fund transformation projects and manage the transformation programme in order to further a circular economy. Circular Business Models outlines sustainable business models that can be used by companies to move transformation forward on a large scale. In addition to business models the book will cover and discuss a number of other factors necessary for a successful transformation, such as business and innovation strategy, entrepreneurship and change management. Including original interviews with circular economy practitioners, this book will be applicable to industries as diverse as manufacturing, food processing, transportation and mechanical engineering. Addressing the different challenges that meet circular economy visionaries, it outlines strategies and business models needed to gain momentum in these different sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Mankind vs. Reality (Mats Larsson)....Pages 1-5
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
Development as a Process of Organization (Mats Larsson)....Pages 9-18
The Author’s Journey (Mats Larsson)....Pages 19-26
The Circular Economy and Business Challenges (Mats Larsson)....Pages 27-39
Complexity: The Tightly Woven Fabric of Society (Mats Larsson)....Pages 41-48
Could Resource Shortages Cause Problems? (Mats Larsson)....Pages 49-61
Multiple-Helix Collaboration for the Development of a Circular Economy (Mats Larsson)....Pages 63-75
Managing Change (Mats Larsson)....Pages 77-95
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
Local Production and Distribution Systems (Mats Larsson)....Pages 99-126
Sharing and Extended Use (Mats Larsson)....Pages 127-149
Standardization and Modularization (Mats Larsson)....Pages 151-162
Recycling and Upcycling (Mats Larsson)....Pages 163-170
Biologically Based Materials (Mats Larsson)....Pages 171-183
Transportation Systems, Renewable Fuels, and Energy Efficiency (Mats Larsson)....Pages 185-214
Construction, Infrastructure, and Digital Technologies (Mats Larsson)....Pages 215-221
Life-Sustaining Resources and Technologies (Mats Larsson)....Pages 223-228
Financial Innovations (Mats Larsson)....Pages 229-240
General-Purpose Technologies as the Basis for Transformation (Mats Larsson)....Pages 241-253
Front Matter ....Pages 255-255
Risks and Logical Fallacies (Mats Larsson)....Pages 257-273
Planning the Way Forward and Reality Check (Mats Larsson)....Pages 275-279
Paradigms, at Last (Mats Larsson)....Pages 281-287
Back Matter ....Pages 289-303

✦ Subjects

Sustainability Management