Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy
本文从社会符号视角分析循环经济转型中的乌托邦与瘫痪现象，提出企业转型框架，帮助组织在务实与变革间找到平衡，推动循环经济落地。
The circular economy constitutes a paradigm shift which has proven to be both engaging and unrealistic. While scholars and practitioners have started to advocate for a move toward the circular economy, promising a full reconfiguration of underlying practices and processes, many have become disillusioned about the lack of traction and progress. The circular economy transition has fallen between utopia and paralysis. This article discusses circular utopia and paralysis from a social-symbolic perspective, examining discursive, relational, and material inflators and impediments of the circular economy transition, and the business transformations that have been pursued to navigate within the pragmatic in-between state. We develop a Circular Economy Business Transformation Framework, which assesses how organizations can combat utopia or overcome paralysis and subsequently position the special issue papers within it. We conclude with an agenda for future research aimed at finding pragmatic and actionable, yet significant, business transformations toward the circular economy.