Author(s)

LingYan Sun

Affiliation(s)

Silk Road Economic Belt Core Area Industrial High-quality Development Research Center, Business School, Xinjiang Normal University, Xinjiang 830054, Urumqi, China.

Corresponding Author

LingYan Sun

ABSTRACT

The industrial symbiosis network drives the construction and upgrading of circular supply chains through resource collaboration and value reconstruction. This study systematically analyzes the intrinsic mechanisms by which industrial symbiosis empowers circular supply chains, including economic drivers, environmental momentum, risk resistance capabilities, and policy empowerment, thereby enriching the dynamic evolution theory of industrial symbiosis. It also interprets the challenges and contradictions encountered during the process of establishing industrial symbiosis networks and circular supply chains through real-world case studies. Based on the promotion of industrial symbiosis networks for the transformation and upgrading of circular supply chains, it proposes feasible pathways for achieving sustainable economic development.

KEYWORDS

Industrial symbiosis; Circular supply chain; Blockchain

CITE THIS PAPER

LingYan Sun. The mechanism and pathways of industrial symbiosis networks empowering circular supply chains. World Journal of Management Science. 2025, 3(3): 30-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wms3076.

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