Background: This paper explores the potential of Industry 5.0 in driving societal transition to
a circular economy. We focus on the strategic role of reverse logistics in this context …

The recent advancement of digitalization and information and communication technology
(ICT) has not only shifted the manufacturing paradigm towards the Fourth Industrial …

Purpose This paper presents a systematic literature review of the various aspects of reverse
logistics (RL) and closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) in implementing and achieving circular …

Purpose The importance of integrating sustainability into business activities rises
continuously. In addition to an established focus on forward logistics, there is a growing …

Contemporary business models need to re-imagine the production and distribution of goods
and services embedding social, economic, and environmental goals concurrently. To this …

The circular economy (CE) and supply chain management (SCM) paradigms were already
synthetized within the concept of circular supply chain (CSC) but, recently, also Industry 4.0 …

Reverse logistics has gained significant attention in operations management research in
recent years. Attention to environmentally responsible practices and sustainable operations …

The concepts of Industry 4.0 and closed loop supply chains are becoming popular as
logistics management evolves. Industry 4.0, through its instruments such as cloud …

After the general structuring of reverse logistics activities outlined in the previous chapter, we
now take a quantitative perspective on this field. The purpose of this chapter is to outline the …

In the last decade, research in reverse logistics has rapidly grown in both academia and
business driven by factors such as economics, environmental legislations and corporate …