Nancy Bocken
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Bocken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocken |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0137-4074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Constitutes an Attractive Product‐as‐a‐Service Offer? Examining Consumer Preferences for (Circular) Business Patterns
Little is known about consumer preferences for combinations of circular business model patterns, despite their potential to benefit the design of product services. This study examines consumer preferences for product‐as‐a‐service offers, combined with circular product attributes, across Sweden and the Netherlands. Using choice experiments for robotic vacuum cleaners, robotic lawnmowers, strollers and wool coats, we investigate access versus owner…
Towards Strong Sustainability: Exploring Reconfigurations of Sufficiency‐Oriented and Regenerative Business Models
Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how sufficiency‐oriented business models and regenerative business models can be reconfigured to advance sustai…
Planning for sufficiency shared housing: Toward an agenda for future research and practice
In this critical commentary we propose a research agenda that supports the scaled development of “sufficiency shared housing,” or housing options built for the sharing of functional space in a way that lowers total resource consumption. While research from multiple contexts shows that shared housing options are generally popular, they remain niche market options, at best. Drawing from the specific cases of co-housing and co-living in North Americ…
Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy
The circular economy constitutes a paradigm shift which has proven to be both engaging and unrealistic. While scholars and practitioners have started to advocate for a move toward the circular economy, promising a full reconfiguration of underlying practices and processes, many have become disillusioned about the lack of traction and progress. The circular economy transition has fallen between utopia and paralysis. This article discusses circular…
Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States
The transition to a circular economy challenges existing regulatory frameworks, social norms, and belief systems: the dominant institutions. Moving from a linear to circular business model (CBM) is essential for sustainable business transformation. While CBMs have been widely studied in Europe, less is known about their emergence in the United States, where a national circular economy policy is still absent. This study explores how CBMs emerge in…
Smart, circular and renewable: The role of cooperative governance in accelerating a sustainable energy transition
The proliferation of renewable energy contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals but also leads to waste issues and critical raw material dependencies. It is therefore important to study circular economy (CE) strategies for renewables to mitigate these challenges, while ensuring broad social participation and enhancing community and business resilience. We apply market failure and cooperative theory to explore how cooperative governance can…
The Roles of Civil Society Associations in Organising the Informal Circular Economy
A circular economy (CE) transition requires more than technological innovation and market‐based solutions. It demands a circular society that values informal repair, reuse and sharing practices. This study investigates how civil society associations (CSAs) support such practices in an industrialised setting. We apply a mixed‐methods approach, combining survey data from 820 households in Flanders (Belgium) with 24 interviews involving CSA represen…
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda
In the 1960s, influential thinkers defined design as a rational problem-solving approach to deal with the challenges of sustainable human development. In 2009, a design consultant and a business academic selected some of these ideas and successfully branded them with the term “design thinking.” As a result, design thinking has developed into a stream of innovation management research discussing how to innovate faster and better in competitive mar…
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda
The circular economy (CE) challenges the traditional linear economic model by emphasizing the importance of resource efficiency, recycling, and regeneration in society. However, the role of gender in CE practices remains underexplored. This article presents a systematic literature review on how gender dynamics intersect with CE, highlighting the implications of gendered labor distribution, access to resources, and decision‐making processes. Women…
Between Circular Paralysis and Utopia: Organizational Transformations towards the Circular Economy
Circular business model innovation in consumer-facing corporations
Consumer-facing corporations have started setting ambitious circular economy goals. However, it is unclear what innovators in corporations do to help meet these targets. The literature on circular business model innovation (CBMI) has focused on business-to-business contexts, efficiency, and recycling, but lacks insight into the innovation activities within consumer-facing corporations to pursue higher strategies in the waste hierarchy such as rep…
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research
Given the gaps between EU ambitions regarding energy community development and the current reality of clean energy communities in Europe, we explore a research framework enabling viable multi- and interdisciplinary research into new clean energy communities. We offer a definition of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and …
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts
Circular economy (CE) and sharing economy (SE) are much discussed concepts but potential links between them have not been examined systematically so far. The concepts’ popularity coupled with a lack of definitional consensus may hinder their potential to advance sustainability transitions. Hence, the first comparative bibliometric study of these two concepts was carried out. It was found that they share notable links in the fields of sustainabili…
A Review and Typology of Circular Economy Business Model Patterns
The circular economy (CE) requires companies to rethink their supply chains and business models. Several frameworks found in the academic and practitioner literature propose circular economy business models (CEBMs) to redefine how companies create value while adhering to CE principles. A review of these frameworks shows that some models are frequently discussed, some are framework specific, and some use a different wording to refer to similar CEB…
Experimenting with a circular business model: Lessons from eight cases
Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition
The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?
Taking the Circularity to the Next Level: A Special Issue on the Circular Economy
The Circular Economy: Exploring the Introduction of the Concept Among S&P 500 Firms
Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy
The transition within business from a linear to a circular economy brings with it a range of practical challenges for companies. The following question is addressed: What are the product design and business model strategies for companies that want to move to a circular economy model? This paper develops a framework of strategies to guide designers and business strategists in the move from a linear to a circular economy. Building on Stahel, the te…
Towards a sufficiency-driven business model: Experiences and opportunities
A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes
Eco-innovations, eco-efficiency and corporate social responsibility practices define much of the current industrial sustainability agenda. While important, they are insufficient in themselves to deliver the holistic changes necessary to achieve long-term social and environmental sustainability. How can we encourage corporate innovation that significantly changes the way companies operate to ensure greater sustainability? Sustainable business mode…
From Refining Sugar to Growing Tomatoes: Industrial Ecology and Business Model Evolution
This article seeks to advance the understanding of the relationship between industrial ecology (IE) and business model innovation for sustainability as a means and driver of new value creation and competitive advantage by expanding the understanding of industrial symbiosis (IS) and internal symbiosis. This is explored through the case study of British Sugar, which, at the time of writing, is the UK's largest sugar producer by market share. Over t…
Sustainable Business: The New Business as Usual
A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes
Eco-innovations, eco-efficiency and corporate social responsibility practices define much of the current industrial sustainability agenda. While important, they are insufficient in themselves to deliver the holistic changes necessary to achieve long-term social and environmental sustainability. How can we encourage corporate innovation that significantly changes the way companies operate to ensure greater sustainability? Sustainable business mode…
From Refining Sugar to Growing Tomatoes: Industrial Ecology and Business Model Evolution
This article seeks to advance the understanding of the relationship between industrial ecology (IE) and business model innovation for sustainability as a means and driver of new value creation and competitive advantage by expanding the understanding of industrial symbiosis (IS) and internal symbiosis. This is explored through the case study of British Sugar, which, at the time of writing, is the UK's largest sugar producer by market share. Over t…
Sustainable Business: The New Business as Usual
Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy
The transition within business from a linear to a circular economy brings with it a range of practical challenges for companies. The following question is addressed: What are the product design and business model strategies for companies that want to move to a circular economy model? This paper develops a framework of strategies to guide designers and business strategists in the move from a linear to a circular economy. Building on Stahel, the te…
Towards a sufficiency-driven business model: Experiences and opportunities
The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?
Taking the Circularity to the Next Level: A Special Issue on the Circular Economy
The Circular Economy: Exploring the Introduction of the Concept Among S&P 500 Firms
Experimenting with a circular business model: Lessons from eight cases
Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition
A Review and Typology of Circular Economy Business Model Patterns
The circular economy (CE) requires companies to rethink their supply chains and business models. Several frameworks found in the academic and practitioner literature propose circular economy business models (CEBMs) to redefine how companies create value while adhering to CE principles. A review of these frameworks shows that some models are frequently discussed, some are framework specific, and some use a different wording to refer to similar CEB…
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research
Given the gaps between EU ambitions regarding energy community development and the current reality of clean energy communities in Europe, we explore a research framework enabling viable multi- and interdisciplinary research into new clean energy communities. We offer a definition of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and …
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts
Circular economy (CE) and sharing economy (SE) are much discussed concepts but potential links between them have not been examined systematically so far. The concepts’ popularity coupled with a lack of definitional consensus may hinder their potential to advance sustainability transitions. Hence, the first comparative bibliometric study of these two concepts was carried out. It was found that they share notable links in the fields of sustainabili…
Circular business model innovation in consumer-facing corporations
Consumer-facing corporations have started setting ambitious circular economy goals. However, it is unclear what innovators in corporations do to help meet these targets. The literature on circular business model innovation (CBMI) has focused on business-to-business contexts, efficiency, and recycling, but lacks insight into the innovation activities within consumer-facing corporations to pursue higher strategies in the waste hierarchy such as rep…
Between Circular Paralysis and Utopia: Organizational Transformations towards the Circular Economy
Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda
In the 1960s, influential thinkers defined design as a rational problem-solving approach to deal with the challenges of sustainable human development. In 2009, a design consultant and a business academic selected some of these ideas and successfully branded them with the term “design thinking.” As a result, design thinking has developed into a stream of innovation management research discussing how to innovate faster and better in competitive mar…
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda
The circular economy (CE) challenges the traditional linear economic model by emphasizing the importance of resource efficiency, recycling, and regeneration in society. However, the role of gender in CE practices remains underexplored. This article presents a systematic literature review on how gender dynamics intersect with CE, highlighting the implications of gendered labor distribution, access to resources, and decision‐making processes. Women…
Moving Beyond Circular Utopia and Paralysis: Accelerating Business Transformations Towards the Circular Economy
The circular economy constitutes a paradigm shift which has proven to be both engaging and unrealistic. While scholars and practitioners have started to advocate for a move toward the circular economy, promising a full reconfiguration of underlying practices and processes, many have become disillusioned about the lack of traction and progress. The circular economy transition has fallen between utopia and paralysis. This article discusses circular…
Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States
The transition to a circular economy challenges existing regulatory frameworks, social norms, and belief systems: the dominant institutions. Moving from a linear to circular business model (CBM) is essential for sustainable business transformation. While CBMs have been widely studied in Europe, less is known about their emergence in the United States, where a national circular economy policy is still absent. This study explores how CBMs emerge in…
Smart, circular and renewable: The role of cooperative governance in accelerating a sustainable energy transition
The proliferation of renewable energy contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals but also leads to waste issues and critical raw material dependencies. It is therefore important to study circular economy (CE) strategies for renewables to mitigate these challenges, while ensuring broad social participation and enhancing community and business resilience. We apply market failure and cooperative theory to explore how cooperative governance can…
The Roles of Civil Society Associations in Organising the Informal Circular Economy
A circular economy (CE) transition requires more than technological innovation and market‐based solutions. It demands a circular society that values informal repair, reuse and sharing practices. This study investigates how civil society associations (CSAs) support such practices in an industrialised setting. We apply a mixed‐methods approach, combining survey data from 820 households in Flanders (Belgium) with 24 interviews involving CSA represen…
What Constitutes an Attractive Product‐as‐a‐Service Offer? Examining Consumer Preferences for (Circular) Business Patterns
Little is known about consumer preferences for combinations of circular business model patterns, despite their potential to benefit the design of product services. This study examines consumer preferences for product‐as‐a‐service offers, combined with circular product attributes, across Sweden and the Netherlands. Using choice experiments for robotic vacuum cleaners, robotic lawnmowers, strollers and wool coats, we investigate access versus owner…
Towards Strong Sustainability: Exploring Reconfigurations of Sufficiency‐Oriented and Regenerative Business Models
Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how sufficiency‐oriented business models and regenerative business models can be reconfigured to advance sustai…
Planning for sufficiency shared housing: Toward an agenda for future research and practice
In this critical commentary we propose a research agenda that supports the scaled development of “sufficiency shared housing,” or housing options built for the sharing of functional space in a way that lowers total resource consumption. While research from multiple contexts shows that shared housing options are generally popular, they remain niche market options, at best. Drawing from the specific cases of co-housing and co-living in North Americ…
Sustainable Supply Chain Management (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Circular economy (15 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Sustainable Industrial Ecology (11 works) · Business model (10 works) · Environmental Sustainability in Business (10 works) · Sustainability (10 works) · Sociology (9 works)