We are looking for doctoral candidates to conduct research and real-life testing/ implementation (for the applied/ experimental PhD track) into the design and application of circular business models in individual organisations and/or economic sectors. The main focus of this call is on identifying, investigating and testing circular models, which have the potential to combine positive environmental impacts with viable business outcomes. Ideally, proposals should aim to facilitate and incentivise movement towards circular models through considering integrated methods, which combine top-down approaches (e.g. legislation, policies, infrastructure, societal awareness) with bottom-up ones (e.g. business models, organisational changes, product design, supply chain, technology). Proposals are welcomed for a broad range of economic sectors and organisation types.
The research and project work will be co-ordinated and supervised by the Green Economy and CSR research group at the Estonian Business School with support from other topical groups as necessary, depending on the scope of individual proposals (e.g. Digitalisation and Entrepreneurship, Methods and Design, Political Economy and Society, Management and Organisations).