Circular business model in supply chains: shedding lights on resilience

Over years the interest for circularity became mainstream within the sustainability discourse. However, although circular economy can be defined as a driver for sustainability, it remains nowadays unclear how circular business models connect with the sustainability concept. Therefore, literature lacks a clear systemic analysis for the identification on how both circular business models and supply chains are interconnected. The number of literature reviews published about circular business models is high but its link with supply chain and resilience is not evident in those works. According to various authors, sustainability and resilience are two elements that cannot work without each other, and since circular economy is defined as driver for sustainability, resilience emerge as key in this context. Such a perspective becomes even more necessary in terms of turbulence in which institutional environments are strongly affected by abrupt changes of the market This paper aims to analyze how circular business model and resilience integrate supply chain literature. To do that, a systematic literature review is proposed to provide new elements to existing archetypes of circular business models reflecting of resilience. The main contribution of this research is to elaborate a framework that can be empirically applied to different industries. This will be appealing for both scholars and practitioners that will learn about a concept currently overlooked in the literature. Additionally, our framework has the potential to shed lights on other stakeholder contribution as we demonstrate resilience as a relevant matter.