Product-service systems business models for circular supply chains
dc.contributor.author | Yang, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Smart, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Kumar, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Jolly, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Evans, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-14T09:39:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05-21 | |
dc.description.abstract | Shifting supply chain architectures from ‘linear’ to ‘circular’ structures is imperative as businesses strive towards a circular economy ideal. Such a transformation requires innovation in the business models with impacts on value propositions, operations and revenue streams. This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘circularity’ in supply chain operations, and proposes that product-service systems (PSS) business models can enhance restorative and regenerative effects of inner circles, circling long and cascading use circles. It adopts an exploratory case study method of a large Chinese manufacturing firm operating a traditional product-based business model and three variants of PSS (i.e. product-, use- and result-oriented PSSs) within its sub-architectures. The supply chain operations of the four distinct business models are analysed and their associated circularities are discussed. The findings show that business model akin to result-oriented PSS, have tighter and more efficient circularity of supply chain operations. This research contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between supply chain circularity and business model innovation in the context of a circular economy ideal. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability under Grant EP/I033351/1 and Europe-China High Value Engineering Network under Grant PIRSESGA-2011-295130. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 29 (6), pp. 498-508 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09537287.2018.1449247 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/28013 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | Circular supply chains | en_GB |
dc.subject | product-service systems | en_GB |
dc.subject | business model | en_GB |
dc.subject | circular business models | en_GB |
dc.subject | circular economy | en_GB |
dc.title | Product-service systems business models for circular supply chains | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0953-7287 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record | |
dc.identifier.journal | Production Planning and Control | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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