Reframing Circular Transitions
Small-Business Agency and Ecosystem Dynamics
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Beschreibung
Small firms drive circular economy transitions, yet the literature treats them as a single category — SMEs — addressed by the same instruments and policies. This book argues against that homogenisation. Drawing on empirical and conceptual contributions, the chapters demonstrate that entrepreneurial agency and ecosystem structure continuously reshape one another. Owner–manager centrality functions simultaneously as capability and liability. Ecosystem embeddedness provides resource access while generating structural vulnerability. Unidirectional causal models cannot capture these dynamics. The volume advances a theoretically grounded account of co-constitution — the bidirectional feedback through which small firms navigate circular transitions. It offers an analytical framework, policy implications for meso-level intervention, and a research agenda centred on three core tensions: capability versus liability, access versus vulnerability, and unidirectional causality versus bidirectional co-constitution.
Small firms drive circular economy transitions, yet the literature treats them as a single category — SMEs — addressed by the same instruments and policies. This book argues against that homogenisation. Drawing on empirical and conceptual contributions, the chapters demonstrate that entrepreneurial agency and ecosystem structure continuously reshape one another. Owner–manager centrality functions simultaneously as capability and liability. Ecosystem embeddedness provides resource access while generating structural vulnerability. Unidirectional causal models cannot capture these dynamics. The volume advances a theoretically grounded account of co-constitution — the bidirectional feedback through which small firms navigate circular transitions. It offers an analytical framework, policy implications for meso-level intervention, and a research agenda centred on three core tensions: capability versus liability, access versus vulnerability, and unidirectional causality versus bidirectional co-constitution.
Comprehensively integrates entrepreneurial agency and ecosystem navigation in a dual-level framework Practically delivers evidence-based insights for circular value creation in resource-constrained contexts Distinguishes small enterprises from micro and medium firms in Circular Economy transition research
Autor*in
Tarlan Ahmadov
Themen in »Reframing Circular Transitions«
Circular economy in small enterprises Sustainable business transformation Entrepreneurial dynamics and CE Stakeholder ecosystems in CE Micro and meso-level CE analysis Small business sustainability strategy CE innovation in SMEs Resource-constrained business models