Rethinking Circular Economy from Below: Informality, Material Flows, and Hybrid Institutions in Maun, Botswana

Innovation Narratives in Startups: Legitimation Grammars Under Inequality in Brazilian and International Technology Ventures

This study examines how technology startups communicatively construct and legitimate their innovation activities through organizational narratives. Drawing on the Communicative Constitution of Organizations perspective, organizational narrative theory, and legitimation studies, we analyse publicly circulating self-desc...

Innovation at extreme institutional distance: Bricolage theory and grassroots ingenuity in rural India's informal economy

Despite extensive research on innovation in resource-rich environments, limited theoretical attention has been devoted to understanding how necessity-driven innovation emerges and persists in informal economies. This study addresses a critical gap in bricolage theory by examining how core mechanisms—creative resource r...

Reviving traditional crafts and intergenerational knowledge in the age of circular economy: a narrative literature review

The circular economy (abbreviation: CE) has become a dominant policy and research paradigm in recent years, emphasizing sustainability through waste minimization, repair, reuse, and the extension of product lifecycles. While the technical and systemic dimensions of CE have been extensively studied, its social and cul...

Reimagining Green Marketing Through Circular Economy Logics in Africa: A Systematic Review and the Development of an Afro-circular Consumer Value Framework

Digital taylorism and the future of employment relations in India

Analysis of the structural conditions of platform-mediated labour in India reveals that algorithmic management operates as a form of digital Taylorism, systematically eroding worker autonomy and bargaining power while reconfiguring the boundaries of the employment relationship.

Circularity for Whom? A Framework Linking Circular Economy Transitions to Inclusive Growth in Emerging Economies: A South Asian Calibration