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How B2B suppliers articulate customer value propositions in the circular economy?

17.3.2020 14:24

We identified customer value proposition types that B2B firms with circular economy business models articulate based on certain value creation logics. The results help firms identify what kind of......

Enabling Circular Economy with Software: A Multi-level Approach to Benefits, Requirements and Barriers

17.3.2020 14:05

Through a review of academic literature, we identified benefits, requirements, and barriers for using digital solutions in enabling circular economy. We found that digitalization is driving circular......

Visual and linguistic catalysts

19.2.2020 9:19

The transition from a linear economy to a circular economy requires a fundamental change in our ways of working and thinking, both in business and in society. This need for change also forces us to......

Stakeholder value creation: Legitimating business sustainability

7.2.2020 14:14

Stakeholder cooperation and value creation are a prerequisite for sustainable circular economy and Finland’s objective to be the leading country in circular economy by the year 2025. Companies......

Eco-industrial Parks

7.2.2020 14:11

This chapter defines Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) as a business community of manufacturing and service businesses seeking enhanced environmental and economic performance through collaboration in managing......

Active sustainability actors - A life course approach

7.2.2020 14:09

Given our study, we identified two paths for agency formation: active sustainability agency develops either through upbringing and education or through awakening moments. Some actors had grown into......

Food cycle and border negotiation – language as a catalyst for circular economy

18.1.2020 11:17

In a sitcom series Seinfeld (1994), George Costanza, who often ends up in embarrassing situations, eats pastry left in the kitchen trash after a party. George's girlfriend's mother sees the situation......

Much Ado about Waste

15.11.2019 15:23

Waste is in the core of circular economy both linguistically and in practice. The blog post of the CICAT2025 in October discussed the linguistics of “waste” and “trash” and their impact on......

Special Call – Visual Catalysts 1.11.–31.12.2019

4.11.2019 8:55

We welcome both artists and scientists to join the Visual Catalysts exhibition!We are living in a slow-motion climate crisis. Old ways of seeing got us here. Our way as consumers needs to be seen from......

Sustainable future through co-operation: CICAT2025 participated in the European Days for Sustainable Circular Economy

1.11.2019 12:07

One of the events during the Finnish EU Presidency, the European Days for Sustainable Circular Economy conference, took place in Helsinki on 30 September – 1 October 2019. The purpose of the......