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The journal deals with the issues of efficiency of functioning of the national economics and organizational forms of management of the national economy. Attention is paid to the problems of marketing, management and efficiency of production and economic activity of agrarian enterprises. The issues of public administration and administration, accounting and taxation, banking and insurance, forecasting and modeling of economic processes, foreign economic activity, commodity flows of economic entities and their infrastructure support.
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR CIRCULAR INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS MODELS IMPLEMENTATION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
KOBLIANSKA Inna – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Business Administration, Sumy State University (40000, Sumy, 116, Kharkivska Str., e-mail: i.koblianska@biem.sumdu.edu.ua)
Digital transformation holds significant potential to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals. The circular economy (hereafter – CE) – based on the principles of eliminating waste and emissions, circulating resources, and restoring nature – is one of the key pathways for transforming existing business models. Technologies for data collection, analysis, and processing offer opportunities for improved planning, organization, monitoring, control, and analysis of production processes and resource use, thereby supporting the implementation of circular economy principles.
The potential of digital solutions to drive the transformation of business models has attracted the attention of the researchers worldwide, across various economic sectors. Paying attention to the complexity of the scientific problem and the diversity of proposed approaches, there is a clear need to synthesize existing academic contributions.
The purpose of this article is to identify the main digital technologies and the areas of their implementation that support the realization of circular economy principles in production and contribute to achieving sustainable development goals. The study is based on data from English-language articles indexed in the Scopus database since 2015, focusing on sustainable and circular business models in manufacturing and relevant digital technologies.
Quantitative text analysis methods were applied to the scientific literature, enabling the identification of the most prevalent practices. The findings indicate that the key innovations include the use of Industry 4.0 technologies – particularly big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. The application of these technologies in material and resource flow management, as well as in the coordination and interaction of network participants, demonstrates the highest potential for advancing circular economy principles in manufacturing, fostering economic growth, and achieving sustainable development goals.
The results are valuable for informing the decisions related to the digital and circular transformation of production business models, especially under conditions of limited investment and resource constraints.
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