Scholars have long studied how organizations can transition towards greater sustainability, but it is only recently that they have begun to investigate a fundamentally new stream in sustainability thinking: the circular economy paradigm. Instead of the ‘make‐use‐dispose’ approach of a linear economy, a circular economy aims at eliminating waste and avoiding damage to the environment by closing resource loops. Given the recent surge of scholarly interest in the ways in which organizations can change towards working in a more circular way, it is important and timely to verify what scholars have learnt, what remains contested, and what should be done next. To this end, we are reviewing literature on the emerging field of ‘Organizational Change towards a Circular Economy’ (OCCE). We identify and analyse research that sits at the interface of organizational change theory and the circular economy paradigm and provide a systematic literature review. Our review reveals consensus, ambiguities, and differences in the OCCE literature along three main dimensions of organizational change (i.e., content, process, and context). Furthermore, we develop a novel and encompassing conceptualization of OCCE as well as outline future research opportunities. Overall, our study brings together the growing but fragmented body of OCCE research and outlines scientific and practical avenues for making progress in a more unified and systematic way.

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循环经济的组织变革：文献的系统回顾

长期以来，学者们一直在研究组织如何向更大的可持续性转型，但直到最近，他们才开始研究可持续性思维中的一个全新流派：循环经济范式。循环经济不是线性经济的“制造-使用-处置”方法，而是旨在通过闭合资源循环来消除浪费并避免对环境的破坏。鉴于最近学术界对组织如何转变为以更循环的方式工作的兴趣高涨，及时验证学者们所学到的知识、仍有争议的知识以及下一步应该做什么是很重要的。为此，我们正在回顾“面向循环经济的组织变革”（OCCE）这一新兴领域的文献。我们识别并分析了组织变革理论和循环经济范式界面的研究，并提供了系统的文献综述。我们的回顾揭示了 OCCE 文献中组织变革的三个主要维度（即内容、过程和背景）的共识、模糊性和差异。此外，我们开发了一种新颖且全面的 OCCE 概念，并概述了未来的研究机会。总体而言，我们的研究汇集了不断增长但分散的 OCCE 研究，并概述了以更加统一和系统的方式取得进展的科学和实践途径。