From Sustainable Global Value Chains to Circular Economy—Different Silos, Different Perspectives, but Many Opportunities to Build Bridges

Joerg S Hofstetter1, Valentina De Marchi2, Joseph Sarkis3, Kannan Govindan4, Robert D. Klassen5, Aldo Roberto Ometto6, Katharina Spraul7, Nancy Bocken8, Weslynne Ashton9, Sanjay Sharma10, Melanie Jaeger‐Erben11, Charlotte Louise Jensen12, Paul M. Dewick13, Patrick Schröder14, Noemi Sinkovics15, Sherwat Ibrahim16, Luke Fiske17, Anthony Goerzen17, Diego Vázquez‐Brust18
1Kedge Business School, 680, Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence, France
2University of Padova, Padova, Italy
3Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA, USA
4University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
5Western University, London, ON, Canada
6University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
7Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
8Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
9Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
10University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA
11Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
12Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
13Keele University and University of Manchester, Staffordshire, UK
14Chatham House, London, UK
15University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
16American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
17Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
18University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

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