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Table A3

Future research directions, associated challenges and suggested research questions

Future research direction	Associated challenge	Suggested research question
Understanding how tacit knowledge can be elicited and formalized for reuse assessment	Reuse assessments remain highly dependent on tacit, experience-based knowledge that is difficult to capture, structure and integrate into digital systems	How can organizations systematically elicit, formalize, and sustain tacit expert knowledge to support reliable and scalable reuse assessments in circular product systems?
Assessing the role of KM maturity in enabling scalable reuse logic	The effectiveness of reuse artefacts depends on organizational routines for knowledge acquisition, validation and maintenance, which vary across firms	How does variation in KM maturity influence the scalability, reliability and long-term maintainability of reuse logic in configuration and PLM systems?
Integrating tacit knowledge into DPPs to support decision-making	DPPs facilitate lifecycle data but do not inherently capture tacit expert reasoning, limiting their ability to support complex reuse decisions	How can DPPs be designed or extended to incorporate, interface with or augment tacit expert knowledge in ways that support, knowledge-intensive reuse assessments?
Coordinating KM and DPP infrastructures across organizational actors	Circular value networks involve multiple stakeholders with fragmented knowledge flows, inconsistent semantics and limited mechanisms for shared governance	What governance structures and information-sharing arrangements enable KM and DPP infrastructures to support consistent, cross-actor reuse assessments at scale?

Future research direction	Associated challenge	Suggested research question
Understanding how tacit knowledge can be elicited and formalized for reuse assessment	Reuse assessments remain highly dependent on tacit, experience-based knowledge that is difficult to capture, structure and integrate into digital systems	How can organizations systematically elicit, formalize, and sustain tacit expert knowledge to support reliable and scalable reuse assessments in circular product systems?
Assessing the role of KM maturity in enabling scalable reuse logic	The effectiveness of reuse artefacts depends on organizational routines for knowledge acquisition, validation and maintenance, which vary across firms	How does variation in KM maturity influence the scalability, reliability and long-term maintainability of reuse logic in configuration and PLM systems?
Integrating tacit knowledge into DPPs to support decision-making	DPPs facilitate lifecycle data but do not inherently capture tacit expert reasoning, limiting their ability to support complex reuse decisions	How can DPPs be designed or extended to incorporate, interface with or augment tacit expert knowledge in ways that support, knowledge-intensive reuse assessments?
Coordinating KM and DPP infrastructures across organizational actors	Circular value networks involve multiple stakeholders with fragmented knowledge flows, inconsistent semantics and limited mechanisms for shared governance	What governance structures and information-sharing arrangements enable KM and DPP infrastructures to support consistent, cross-actor reuse assessments at scale?