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Zeiss, Roman ORCID: 0000-0002-1366-3095, Ixmeier, Anne, Recker, Jan C. ORCID: 0000-0002-2072-5792 and Kranz, Johann (2020). Mobilising information systems scholarship for a circular economy: Review, synthesis, and directions for future research. Information Systems Journal. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISSN 1365-2575

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Abstract

One of today's grand societal challenges is to replace the current ‘take‐make‐waste’ economic model with a circular economic model that allows a gradual decoupling of economic activities from the consumption of finite virgin resources. While circular economy (CE) scholars have long lauded digital technologies such as sensors, distributed ledgers, or platforms as key enablers, our own community has not fully explored the potentials of information systems (IS) for a CE. Considering recent technological advances in software and hardware and our history of helping address wicked challenges, we believe the time is ripe to mobilise IS scholarship for a CE. Our findings from an interdisciplinary literature review show that research has primarily examined IS potentials for increasing efficiency of isolated intra‐organisational processes while neglecting the larger sustainability potential of IS to establish circular material flows—that is, slow down and close material loops across entire product lifecycles. In response, we propose directions for IS research that develop our knowledge of how IS can help understand and enact circular material flows to intensify and extend use of products and components and recycle waste materials. Our directions offer pathways to building and evaluating the problem‐solution pairing that could characterise a prolific CE‐IS relationship.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Zeiss, Roman zeiss@wiso.uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0002-1366-3095 UNSPECIFIED Ixmeier, Anne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Recker, Jan C. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2072-5792 UNSPECIFIED Kranz, Johann UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-117637
DOI:	10.1111/isj.12305
Journal or Publication Title:	Information Systems Journal
Date:	August 2020
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISSN:	1365-2575
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Weitere Institute, Arbeits- und Forschungsgruppen > Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS) Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Information Systems > Chair for Information Systems and Systems Development
Subjects:	Economics Technology (Applied sciences) Management and auxiliary services
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/11763