Journal
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 2528-2541Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bse.2518
Keywords
circular economy; environmental policy; European Union; latent class analysis; small- and medium-sized firms; sustainable development
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- Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [UID/GES/00315/2013 andUID/GES/00315/2019, BIRD162088/16]
- University of Padua
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This paper focuses on the implementation of circular economy (CE) practices in small- and medium-sized firms in all 28 European Union (EU) countries. The analyses take into account the hierarchical nature of the collected data as firms are nested within EU countries, that is, the heterogeneity between different types of firms and countries according to practices and attitudes towards CE. The multilevel latent class model identifies groups of firms and groups of EU countries that are homogeneous in terms of CE, that is, how the homogeneous groups of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are distributed across the groups of EU countries. These results, together with the fact that firms with similar CE attitudes and practices have different demographic and business profiles across groups of countries, shed further light on the topic of green behavior in the EU with implications for businesses' environmental policies. Moreover, indications emerge that European policies favoring the implementation of CE practices should be targeted at least for subgroups of European countries, considering the different composition by typology of SMEs operating in their territories and that, at the same time, policies should be defined within each group of countries to account for the specific features of each of the four classes of SMEs.
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