Does reshoring drive circular economy practices? A capabilities-based perspective
研究通过英国一家本地组装自行车公司的纵向案例，分析了回流如何通过三种机制（内部生产控制、供应链重构、本地创新生态）促进循环经济实践，并指出这些机制依赖于制度与情境条件。
This study explores the mechanisms through which reshoring initiatives contribute to the adoption of circular economy practices, and how contextual factors structurally enable or constrain these mechanisms. We analyse a longitudinal case study of a company producing locally assembled bicycles in the UK and a product-as-a-service model to understand how circular economy practices emerge from the interaction between firm-level resource orchestration and institutional conditions. Drawing on Resource Orchestration Theory and Institutional Theory, the study identifies three causal mechanisms through which reshoring facilitates circular economy practices: internal production control as an enabler of integration and experimentation; supply base reconfiguration towards innovative local SMEs as an enabler of co-development of circular components; and the creation of a local innovation ecosystem as an enabler of systemic value change. The activation of these mechanisms is contingent on institutional and contextual conditions, such as regulatory incentives and supply chain realities, suggesting that reshoring alone is insufficient to drive circularity.