Figure 3
The network mapping diagram displays five primary teal-colored nodes representing core thematic clusters in academic research. The largest nodes are labeled “Circular Business Practices” at the top, “Material Circularity” in the center-right, and “Stakeholders and Supply Chain Networks” at the bottom. Two slightly smaller nodes are labeled “Organizational Learning” on the left and “Data and Technology” on the lower right. Numerous light blue curved lines radiate from these central nodes to connect with specific academic citations. Under “Circular Business Practices”, citations include “Azcarate-Aguerre et al., 2022a”, “Guerra et al., 2021”, “Ploeger et al., 2019”, “Kristensen and Remmen, 2019”, “Ghafoor et al., 2023”, and “Johansson et al., 2016”. The “Material Circularity” node is linked to “Munaro et al., 2021”, “Meglin et al., 2022”, “Tomatis et al., 2022”, “Anastasiades et al., 2021”, “Das et al., 2023”, “van den Berg et al., 2020”, “Heesbeen and Prieto, 2020”, “Illankoon and Vithanage, 2023”, “van Stijn and Gruis, 2020”, “Bertino et al., 2021”, “Fargnoli et al., 2019”, “Sinclair et al., 2018”, and “Cossu et al., 2012”. The “Stakeholders and Supply Chain Networks” cluster connects to “Giglio et al., 2022”, “Leising et al., 2018”, “Stegehuis et al., 2023”, “Giorgi et al., 2020”, “Xing et al., 2020”, “Nulholz et al., 2019”, “Oluleye et al., 2023”, “Munaro and Tavares, 2023”, “Azcarate-Aguerre et al., 2022b”, “Shooshtarian et al., 2023”, “Domenech et al., 2019”, “Julianelli et al., 2020”, “Wuni, 2023a”, “Hosseini et al., 2014”, “Davari et al., 2023”, “Owojori and Okoro, 2022”, “Talamo et al., 2020”, “Guerra and Leite, 2021”, and “Ollar et al., 2020”. The “Organizational Learning” cluster features links to “Srećković and Šibenik, 2023”, “Hartanto and Chang, 2022”, “Scipioni et al., 2021”, “Ruiter et al., 2022”, “Cruz Rios and Grau, 2020”, “Scipioni and Niccolini, 2021”, and “Lehtimäki et al., 2020”. The “Data and Technology” node is associated with “Argus et al., 2020”, “Cetin et al., 2021”, and “Setaki and van Timmeren, 2022”. Shared citations appearing between clusters, such as “Azcarate-Aguerre et al., 2021”.Network visualisation of authors along the five main categories. Source: Authors’ own work