This paper is aimed at highlighting the main barriers hampering the development of the industrial symbiosis (IS) practice. The study is divided into two parts. First, a systematic literature review was conducted, in order to identify the barriers mentioned in the literature. 77 papers published by...
Sustainability and environmental management
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During the last two decades, the literature devoted great attention to industrial symbiosis (IS) as an effective strategy to achieve environmental, economic, and social benefits. Accordingly, a wide range of numerical indicators – highly different among them for scope, definition, purpose, and...
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This paper investigates the negotiation phase of industrial symbiosis relationships, where companies exchanging wastes for inputs need to develop strategies on how to share the additional costs to operate the industrial symbiosis business. The business behavior is approached as a “coopetition”...
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This paper explores the direct network effect for online platforms supporting industrial symbiosis (IS), which is a recommended strategy to support the transition towards the circular economy. Through IS, companies can use wastes produced by other companies as inputs to production processes. Online...
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