Prácticas de economía circular y eco-innovación: un enfoque del desarrollo sustentable
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La literatura académica establece que la integración y aplicación de estrategias de economía circular incentiva a las empresas industriales a mejorar sus prácticas de eco-innovación y su desempeño sustentable, lo cual ayuda a impulsar la transición hacia un sistema económico más sustentable. Sin embargo, el conjunto de conocimientos y evidencia presentados en la literatura académica actual sobre los efectos de las prácticas de la economía circular en la eco-innovación y el desarrollo sustentable presenta evidencia y resultados fragmentados y, en algunos casos, contradictorios. Por ello, este estudio busca llenar este vacío y contribuir a abordar esta deficiencia mediante el análisis y la discusión de los efectos de las prácticas de la economía circular en la eco-innovación y el desarrollo sustentable de las empresas industriales. Para este fin, se distribuyó una encuesta en papel a una muestra de 410 empresas industriales en México, analizando los datos obtenidos a través de PLS-SEM. Los hallazgos derivados sugieren que las prácticas de la economía circular tienen una notable influencia beneficiosa tanto en las prácticas de eco-innovación como en las actividades del desarrollo sustentable, mientras que las prácticas de eco-innovación no ejercen una influencia positiva significativa en las actividades del desarrollo sustentable. En este contexto, los resultados llevaron a la inferencia final de que las empresas industriales mexicanas se encuentran en una etapa incipiente de transición de un modelo lineal tradicional a un modelo económico circular, que está mejorando las prácticas de eco-innovación y el desarrollo sustentable.
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