Public sector development and entrepreneurial initiatives for improving circular economy performance: Government policy and digital transformation initiatives as moderators

IF 13.3 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124333

Manpreet Rajpal , Bindu Singh , Sheshadri Chatterjee , Uthayasankar Sivarajah

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Abstract

The public sector delivers essential services like healthcare, law enforcement, public transit, education, infrastructure, social services, emergency services, and environmental management. It supports innovation and digital transformation, which can be enhanced by integrating sustainable circular economy principles. Similarly, entrepreneurship intention towards circular economy could have a pivotal impact towards improving circular economy performance. Not many research studies have been conducted towards identifying how public sector development and entrepreneurial initiatives could impact circular economy performance. Also, there are fewer studies which have focused on the role of government policies and digital transformation initiatives towards improving circular economy performance. Against this background, this research study focuses on the role of public sector and entrepreneurship initiatives in enhancing circular economy performance, with government policy and digital transformation initiatives acting as moderating factors. With the support of institutional theory and resource-based view, a model has been developed conceptually which was later validated through partial least square structural equation modelling technique supported by 357 usable respondents from emerging economy respondents. The study found there is a positive correlation between public sector development and entrepreneurial intention to improve circular economy performance. Also, the study demonstrated that government policies and digital transformation initiatives play a significant role towards improving circular economy performance. This study mainly depends on data obtained from cross-sectional study. This invites causality and endogeneity defects. These defects may be addressed by conducting a longitudinal study that could be conducted by future researchers.

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提高循环经济绩效的公共部门发展和创业举措：政府政策和数字化转型举措作为调节因素

公共部门提供基本服务，如医疗保健、执法、公共交通、教育、基础设施、社会服务、应急服务和环境管理。它支持创新和数字化转型，这可以通过整合可持续循环经济原则来加强。同样，循环经济创业意向对提高循环经济绩效也会产生关键影响。在确定公共部门发展和企业倡议如何影响循环经济绩效方面，进行的研究并不多。此外，关注政府政策和数字化转型举措对提高循环经济绩效的作用的研究也较少。在此背景下，本研究侧重于公共部门和创业举措在提高循环经济绩效方面的作用，政府政策和数字化转型举措是调节因素。在制度理论和资源基础观点的支持下，概念上建立了一个模型，随后通过偏最小二乘结构方程建模技术进行了验证，并得到了来自新兴经济体的357名可用受访者的支持。研究发现，公共部门发展与企业家提高循环经济绩效的意愿之间存在正相关关系。此外，该研究还表明，政府政策和数字化转型举措在提高循环经济绩效方面发挥着重要作用。本研究主要依靠横断面研究获得的数据。这会导致因果关系和内生性缺陷。这些缺陷可以通过进行纵向研究来解决，这可以由未来的研究人员进行。

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