Geographical and organised proximities influencing circular economy practices: the closer partners, the better?
基于法国化工行业1000家企业的调查数据，研究地理邻近性和组织邻近性如何影响企业采用循环经济实践，发现组织邻近性比地理邻近性更重要。
Research argues that the proximity between firms represents an important determinant of their adoption of circular economy practices. However, several shortcomings remain: (1) extant studies do not explicitly examine the role of proximity between firms, but rather study the importance of inter-organisational cooperation; (2) some exclusively investigate geographical proximity, but focus on specific context through case studies, leading to a lack of generalisable and robust evidence; and (3) the role of organised proximity remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we address those issues by relying on data from an original survey of 1000 firms in the chemistry sector in France.