Progress in Circular Economy Future Perspectives and Supply Chain Management Challenges: A Hybrid Approach

Yi-Chun Chen; Ching-Hsin Wang; Taufik Kurrahman; Feng Ming Tsai; Ming-Lang Tseng

Abstract

This study contributes to the progress of circular economy future perspectives and supply chain management challenges using a hybrid approach. In recent decades, numerous studies have addressed the circular economy in terms of supply chain management benefits; however, few studies have explored the future perspectives and key challenges encountered. In this study, content, bibliographic and cluster analyses are used to extract attributes of challenges to circular economy practices in supply chain management from the Scopus database. The entropy weighted method is subsequently employed to convert the derived attributes’ co-occurrence values into comparable scales, facilitating further fuzzy Delphi method analysis. These processes are applied to identify valid key challenges that can inform future progress in the circular economy. The results reveal that waste and energy management, circular business design and strategy, circular resource management, and digital technology utilization and transformation are issues that need to be addressed in future studies.

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