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Sustainable development of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union: a taxonomy of circular economy practices
Francesca Bassi (Bassi, F.); José G. Dias (Dias, J. G.);
Journal Title
Business Strategy and the Environment
Year (definitive publication)
2020
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the implementation of circular economy (CE) practices in small- and medium-sized firms in all 28 European Union (EU) countries. The analyses take into account the hierarchical nature of the collected data as firms are nested within EU countries, that is, the heterogeneity between different types of firms and countries according to practices and attitudes towards CE. The multilevel latent class model identifies groups of firms and groups of EU countries that are homogeneous in terms of CE, that is, how the homogeneous groups of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are distributed across the groups of EU countries. These results, together with the fact that firms with similar CE attitudes and practices have different demographic and business profiles across groups of countries, shed further light on the topic of green behavior in the EU with implications for businesses' environmental policies. Moreover, indications emerge that European policies favoring the implementation of CE practices should be targeted at least for subgroups of European countries, considering the different composition by typology of SMEs operating in their territories and that, at the same time, policies should be defined within each group of countries to account for the specific features of each of the four classes of SMEs.
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Keywords
Circular economy,Environmental policy,European Union,Latent class analysis,Small-and-medium-sized firms,Sustainable development
  • Earth and related Environmental Sciences - Natural Sciences
  • Economics and Business - Social Sciences
  • Social and Economic Geography - Social Sciences
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
UID/GES/00315/2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
UIDB/00315/2020 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
BIRD162088/16 University of Padua
UID/GES/00315/2019 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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