Material-Traceability-as-a-Service: Positioning the role of digital product passports in realizing circular economy performance
マテリアル・トレーサビリティ・アズ・ア・サービス：循環経済の実現におけるデジタル製品パスポートの役割の位置づけ (AI 翻訳)
Milad Kolagar, Ali Vahidi, Julian Kirchherr, Victor Scholten
🤖 gxceed AI 要約
日本語
オランダの建設企業を対象に、循環経済（CE）パフォーマンスを達成するための構成条件をfsQCAで分析。デジタル製品パスポート（DPP）は単独では効果がなく、ビジネスモデル革新や社会的統制などと組み合わさったときに有効であることを示し、MTaaSという新概念を提案。5つの等最終的な経路を特定し、CE移行の複雑性を理論化した。
English
Using fsQCA on Dutch construction firms, this study identifies configurational strategies for achieving circular economy (CE) performance. Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are not standalone drivers but become significant within constellations of business model innovation, social controls, and cooperation. Introducing Material-Traceability-as-a-Service (MTaaS), it reveals five equifinal pathways, advancing causal-complexity theory in CE and digital servitization.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本では、循環経済への移行が政策課題となる中、DPPの導入はまだ初期段階。本論文は、DPPを単なるコンプライアンスツールではなく、バリューチェーン全体の協調を促すインフラとして捉える視点を提供し、日本の製造業や建設業が今後の制度設計や企業戦略を考える上で示唆に富む。
In the global GX context
Globally, as the EU pushes Digital Product Passports under the ESPR, this paper provides empirical evidence that DPPs alone are insufficient; they require systemic alignment with business model and governance conditions. It offers a novel service-logic concept (MTaaS) that reframes DPPs as dynamic coordination infrastructures, informing both corporate strategy and policy design for circular transitions.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Provides a configurational theory of CE performance and introduces MTaaS, extending digital servitization literature.
🏢実務担当者:Offers strategic pathways for integrating DPPs with business model innovation and cooperation to achieve circular outcomes.
🏛政策担当者:Suggests governance frameworks that enable and accelerate CE transitions rather than merely regulate.
📄 Abstract（原文）
Industrial firms face growing pressure to reduce their material intensity and carbon emissions. The Circular Economy (CE) offers a promising pathway toward sustainable and regenerative practices, yet translating CE principles into actionable strategies remains complex. Despite increasing attention, little is known about how interdependent organizational and institutional conditions combine to deliver CE performance. This study addresses this gap by identifying configurational strategies for enabling circular outcomes. Drawing on survey data from Dutch construction firms, this study employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to investigate how six conditions, including Digital Product Passport (DPP) readiness, inter-organizational cooperation, business model innovation, government support, formal controls, and social controls, combine to achieve high CE performance. The findings reveal that DPPs are not stand-alone drivers but become strategically significant only when positioned within constellations of business model innovation, social controls, and cooperation. To conceptualize this role, the study introduces Material-Traceability-as-a-Service (MTaaS), a digitally-enabled service logic, through which DPPs evolve from static compliance tools into dynamic infrastructures for value-chain coordination. Five distinct, equifinal pathways to CE performance are uncovered, advancing causal-complexity theory in CE and digital servitization research, challenging linear, one-size-fits-all assumptions about circular transitions. This study contributes to theory by clarifying how digital infrastructures acquire value only through systemic alignment and by extending digital servitization with the MTaaS concept. For practice, it outlines strategic pathways that managers can tailor to organizational contexts, while offering policymakers direction on governance frameworks that enable and accelerate, rather than merely regulate, the transition toward a CE.
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- openalex https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2026.148275first seen 2026-08-02 18:51:16
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