Conference Agenda

This study evaluates the influence of various aspects of Circular Economy (CE) behavior, including CE practice (CEP), CE knowledge (CEK), perceived price (PP) of remanufactured product, and awareness of consequences (AOC), on the attitudes and switching intentions of young adults in developing economies. The research introduces a novel conceptual model based on signaling theory and employs a cross-sectional design with data collected from a sample of 849 young adults in Bangladesh. PLS-SEM approach is used to test the model and hypotheses. The findings reveal that CEP, PP, AOC, and CEK positively influence young adults' attitudes toward remanufactured devices. CEP and PP also show significant and positive relationships with switching intention. However, AOC and CEK do not significantly affect switching intention. Notably, a negative relationship between attitude and switching intention is identified. Economic incentives are found to moderate this relationship, strengthening the negative link between attitude, and switching intention. This study marks a significant contribution to e-waste management, employing a signaling theoretical framework to analyze CE behavior's role in shaping young adults' switching intentions toward remanufactured products. The insights derived provide valuable guidance for policymakers crafting effective interventions in developing economies.

Business to business waste exchanges are still a puzzle in the literature. Even firms that are willing to become circular by selling and (or) purchasing other firms’ by-products or surplus struggle to be successful. Indeed, the introduction of waste materials into a firm’s operations entails several elements of variety that not all organizations are able to absorb or to acquire the necessary resources to accommodate. The objective of this work is to explore why identified synergies get successfully completed and sustained over time into a buyer-supplier dyad and the operations thereof. The study adopts a multiple case study approach to analyze 57 waste exchanges between 80 agri-food companies operating in the Canadian province of Quebec, comparing failed, stalled and success waste exchanges. Results show that synergies are strategically integrated if the variability and incongruence deriving from the waste exchange can be fully absorbed by the dyad’s operational agility, augmentable via operational adaptability, and if the synergy’s salience is enough to benefit from the deployment of agility and adaptability levers to operate the waste exchange.

Based upon Carayannis and Campbell’s (2010) Quintuple Helix Model (QHM), this study explores whether the differences in firms’ emission reduction effectiveness can be attributed to the five institutional helices related to educational system, economic development, political-legal system, cultural orientation, and the natural capital. Using a set of listed European firms for the 2015-2020 period, we show that firms with better emission reduction effectiveness operate in nations with more public educational expenditure and scientific production, more extensive economic development, and better institutional and governance quality. Moreover, emission reduction strategies are more pronounced in firms located in countries characterized by less masculinity, individualism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance, and more long-term orientation and indulgence. In addition, we find that companies with better emission reduction effectiveness are found in countries with more natural capital, characterized by a life in harmony with nature and employing the finite resources available in a sustainable and environmentally conscious manner. Moreover, employing a two-stage model to identify the most relevant helix, we find that the political-legal system helix is the most pivotal in promoting firms' commitment to reducing environmental emissions.