Open AccessExploring Circular Strategy Combinations - towards Understanding the Role of PSS
Author(s) -
Fenna Blomsma,
Louise Laumann Kjær,
Daniela C.A. Pigosso,
Tim C. McAloone,
Stafford Lloyd
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
procedia cirp
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 2212-8271
DOI - 10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.129
Subject(s) - circular economy , reuse , enabling , product service system , order (exchange) , product (mathematics) , service (business) , process management , sustainability , work (physics) , field (mathematics) , engineering , computer science , knowledge management , risk analysis (engineering) , systems engineering , business , business model , marketing , mechanical engineering , mathematics , psychology , ecology , geometry , finance , pure mathematics , psychotherapist , biology , waste management
This paper explores the concept of circular strategy combinations - situations where two or more circular economy strategies (reduce, reuse, recycle, reconditioning, etc) are present in a product system. Specifically, we focus on the holistic analysis of such configurations and the role of product/service-systems (PSS) in enabling them. The case of Riversimple, a sustainable mobility-as-a-service company, is investigated by means of the Circularity Compass in order to explore 1) how combinations of circular strategies can be identified and analysed, and 2) the role of PSS as an enabler of such combinations. This paper strengthens the body of work that aims to clarify how the PSS concept can be used to further develop the growing field of circular economy research and illustrate how the PSS concept can support the development of circular economy into a coherent concept.
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