circular economy metrics literature review and company level classification framework

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review was conducted to assess the performance of circular supply chains in the academic literature and a content analysis and a template technique were employed to evaluate how Multi National Enterprises measure the effect of the adoption of Circular Economy practices in their reports.

Quite simply, developing a framework for assessing circular economy is a challenge that must be coupled with the gathering of metrics or indicators. This is because selecting the correct indicators that capture different CE practices is essential to measure circularity ( An et al., 2017 ).

More in details, 365 different firm-level metrics have been identified and classified through said circular Value Chain framework, articulated into 23 categories. The vast majority of CE metrics are sufficiently general and applicable in assessment procedures irrespective of the firm size, the geographic location, the industrial domain and the ...