17865: Collaborative Organizing Toward a Circular Economy: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Friday, July 25, 2025

12:15 - 14:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Copenhagen Business School: Solbjerg Plads- SP 213

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/9WnmYa

Presenter(s)

AG

Anja Grüll

WU Vienna U. of Economics and Business, Institute for Managing Sustainability, Austria

Organizer(s)

AB

Alberto Bertello

U. of Turin, Department of Management, Italy

Moderator(s)

JC

Jozef Cossey

ESCP Business School, Belgium

Panelist(s)

FF

Frank Figge

ESCP Business School, France
CF

Canio Forliano

U. of Turin, Department of Management, Italy
SG

Simona Grande

U. of Turin, Department of Management
AG

Angela Greco

TU Delft, Netherlands
KH

Kris Hartley

Arizona State U.
WK

Wisdom Kanda

Linköping University, Sweden
RL

Rodrigo Lozano

U. of Gävle, Sweden
JK

Julian Kirchherr

Utrecht U.

Moderator(s)

MM

Magdalena Marczewska

U. of Warsaw, Poland
MP

Martina Panero

University of Turin, Italy

Panelist(s)

JG

Jury Gualandris

-, Canada

Moderator(s)

FP

Francesco Antonio Perotti

U. of Agder, Norway, Italy
KQ

Katinka J.P Quintelier

Vrije U. Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Netherlands

Panelist(s)

DB

Dzamila Bienkowska

Linköping University, Sweden

Organizer(s)

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Nina Telg

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Panelist(s)

KW

Karl S.R Warner

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
TS

Tomas Santa-Maria

University for Development, Chile
MG

Martin Geissdoerfer

U. of Cambridge, United Kingdom
AT

Andrea Stevenson Thorpe

-, Portugal

The Circular Economy (CE) offers pathways to address complex sustainability challenges. By minimizing waste, regenerating resources, and promoting systemic change, CE provides businesses with a framework to create value while reducing their ecological footprint. Achieving this vision requires collaboration across regions, sectors, and diverse stakeholders. Such collaboration offers opportunities to share risks, facilitate resource and knowledge flows across organizational boundaries, and scale positive societal and environmental impacts. At the same time, it introduces challenges, including balancing these flows, aligning policies, and navigating conflicting logics inherent in multi-stakeholder initiatives. This PDW therefore focuses on organizing collectively across firms, ecosystems, and in circular cities to achieve and scale circularity. Through theoretical insights, empirical studies, and practical cases, participants will explore strategies to foster collaboration while leveraging enablers such as digitalization and supportive policy frameworks. The PDW aims to: (1) generate new scientific knowledge on how to organize collectively for a CE, (2) identify actionable strategies for fostering collaboration across different levels (3) build an international community of researchers, who co-develop research projects and support publication efforts. Tailored for scholars in sustainable business, CE, and inter-organizational collaboration, the PDW features focused expert panel discussions, followed by interactive roundtables with the participants, creating an interactive platform for knowledge exchange and idea development. This PDW also resonates with this year’s AOM location, Copenhagen, a circular city at the forefront of advancing CE.