Business Administration Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 21;17(6):2086. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17062086.
Currently, the European Union is promoting the circular economy, a change that involves moving the foundations of actual economies toward the most sustainable production and consumption periods, in which the reuse of resources predominates, mainly through recycling, reuse, and reduction, among other strategies. This study, through the application of institutional theory, analyzes the role that institutional pressure has in the diffusion and adoption of the circular economy from the state to the regions inside through coercive, normative, and mimetic pressures. A matrix of institutional positioning was developed that analyzes the number and diversity of circular economy initiatives. The results show that coercive pressure followed by mimetic pressure are the most relevant in explaining the development of the circular economy in Spain in relation to the closest other European countries in Southern Europe, while there is low normative pressure. The results obtained provide relevant information on how to accelerate the development of the circular economy throughout the European Union through the adequate exercise of different types of institutional pressure.
目前，欧盟正在推动循环经济，这种转变涉及到将实际经济的基础向最可持续的生产和消费阶段转移，在这个阶段，资源的再利用占据主导地位，主要通过再循环、再利用和减少等策略。本研究通过应用制度理论，分析了制度压力在循环经济从国家向地区扩散和采用过程中的作用，这些压力包括强制性压力、规范性压力和模仿性压力。制定了一个制度定位矩阵，分析了循环经济倡议的数量和多样性。结果表明，在解释西班牙与南欧其他最接近的欧洲国家相比循环经济的发展时，强制性压力和模仿性压力是最相关的，而规范性压力较低。研究结果提供了相关信息，说明如何通过适当运用不同类型的制度压力，在整个欧盟加速循环经济的发展。
