Abstract
The objective of this work is to perform a temporal comparative analysis in a network of companies in the furniture sector, in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, presenting drivers through circular economy modeling. The study was performed applying the model proposed by Saraceni et al. (2017) in a network of Furniture companies in Concórdia, Brazil. The model diagnoses the presence of industrial symbiosis practices in five domains variables involving Technical, Economic, Political, Information and Organizational Factors, influencing three spheres: by-product exchange, service sharing, and managerial cooperation. The study addressed the positive relationship aspects of the circular economy as guidelines for improving the industrial symbiosis of the network. The results of data collection in 2019 were compared with the results of the application made in 2014. The comparison revealed a significant advance from 2014 to 2019 towards Industrial Symbiosis, highlighting that corrective actions and circular economy strategies may lead this business network to be the first Industrial Symbiosis case in Brazil in the next few years, meanwhile fostering the ecological network’s process to the country.
Highlights
Many definitions and illustrations about Business Networks (BN) have emerged from different authors in the latest years
Industrial clusters [1], e-industrial cluster [2], horizontal business cooperation networks [3], and an evolved concept to ecological networks [4,5]. Their differences would be related to the specificities of the empirical cases analyzed and the highlight given to certain characteristics or advantages
The productive specialization of the network meets the specificities of this work, since it has the characteristic for the progressive development of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) practices and, the adoption of the concepts of Circular Economy (CE)
Summary
Many definitions and illustrations about Business Networks (BN) have emerged from different authors in the latest years. Industrial clusters [1], e-industrial cluster [2], horizontal business cooperation networks [3], and an evolved concept to ecological networks [4,5]. Their differences would be related to the specificities of the empirical cases analyzed and the highlight given to certain characteristics or advantages. The characteristic of cooperation is usually common to all different concepts related to the subject. In this article, we chose to use the typology BN due to its scope that includes industrial cluster and service networks
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