Circular economy in European sustainability reporting
Krista Leppänen’s blog text on the circular economy in sustainability reporting. In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in corporate sustainability reporting, with more companies highlighting their efforts to be responsible. However, despite its growing importance, circular economy (CE) is still not as present in these reports as it should be. Dagiliene et al. (2020) […]
Leppälä & Lehtimäki (2024). Installation humor: a resistive social practice identified in the engineering workplace
Summary: We studied humor as a resistive practice in a workplace with highly educated employees. This study took place as an at-home ethnography, with the first author being a full member of the research site. We described acts of resistant behavior through a form of humor we identified as Installation Humor. This type of study […]
Sengupta et al. (2024). Reducing food loss through sustainable business models and agricultural innovation systems
Summary: This longitudinal qualitative research in a developing country with food loss challenges in the post-harvest supply chain examines how sustainable business models (SBM) can be developed within agri-innovation systems in such a way that the two integrate with a systemic understanding for reducing food loss and value loss. First, the study identifies the various […]
Lehtimäki et al. (2023). The Routledge handbook of Catalysts for a Sustainable Circular Economy
Summary: This groundbreaking handbook leads the way in accelerating the transition to a sustainable circular economy by introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain favorable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is required to move […]