Document Type : Original Article
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Faculty of Technology and Industrial Management, Department of Management, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Marketing Management, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran
Abstract
During recent decades, when environmental pollution and ignoring it have reached their historical peak in the eyes of many experts, the transition from a linear model of traditional economy to a circular economy has attracted the attention of many philosophers. The purpose of this research is to identify the ethical-environmental functions of circular economy for businesses using the meta-synthesis method. According to this method, after filtering the articles, finally 17 articles that directly dealt with the subject entered the analysis stages by the researcher. After the consolidation phase, 90 distinct codes are identified, and among the identified codes; Increasing social awareness and ecological innovation of products with 5 citations, corporate social responsibility, sustainable growth rate, skills related to recycling and waste avoidance and increasing recycling with 3 citations, respectively, had the highest number of citations in research documents. At higher levels of abstraction, the codes were placed in the form of 20 concepts and finally in the form of 7 categories (social values, sustainable lifestyle, sustainable governance, sustainable development, sustainable management, the three principles of circular economy, and industrial ecology).
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