Supporting a circular economy: Insights from Taiwan's plastic waste sector and lessons for developing countries.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates how, in the process of industrialization, Taiwan successfully developed its plastic waste industry into an industrial-level circular economy by leveraging a network-based collective bricolage in conjunction with a framework of adaptive institutional governance. Three conclusions are made: industrialized manufacturing sectors are foundations upon which developing nations can accumulate endogenous social capabilities and can enable the emergence of network-based collective bricolages; for developing nations that are attempting to establish circular economies based on their endogenous small-to-medium enterprises, developing network-based collective bricolages in conjunction with adaptive institutional governance is an essential and effective strategy; and transitioning

SUBMITTER: Wu CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547840 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature