Circular Economy and Digital Platforms: New Models for Organizational Innovation
Abstract
The convergence between digital platforms and circular economy practices is transforming organizational innovation and sustainability-oriented business models. This study analyzes how digitally enabled ecosystems contribute to circular innovation through dynamic capabilities such as absorptive capacity, strategic agility, and organizational resilience. Using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, the research combines quantitative analysis of 60 digital platforms with qualitative evidence from interviews and content analysis. The findings reveal that digital traceability, multi-actor collaboration, and adaptive organizational capabilities positively influence circular innovation performance and organizational reconfiguration. The study demonstrates that digital platforms operate not only as technological infrastructures, but also as organizational coordination mechanisms that support sustainability-oriented transformation. The research contributes to the literature by integrating circular economy, digital platforms, and dynamic capability theory into a unified framework explaining the emergence of new organizational innovation models.Downloads
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