Winter 2026   Volume 68 • Issue 2

Circular Cities

Our winter special issue features contributions on circular cities, highlighting the importance of urban centers in promoting cross-sector coordination and regenerative innovation in food, energy, construction, and waste

Table of Contents


Circular Economy
Cities can serve as accelerators of circular, regenerative innovation by becoming "living labs" for experiments in sustainable food, energy, construction, and waste.

Circular Economy
The EU's digital product passport highlights the tensions involved in managing data-sharing in cross-sector partnerships.

Circular Economy
The Lost Food Project is an eco-food bank in Kuala Lumpur that has adapted supply chain orchestration for circularity.

Circular Economy
Transformative change requires a systematic approach to circularity, and the dynamic capabilities framework — sensing, seizing, and transforming — can help deliver long-term sustainability.

Circular Economy
While impressive circular business models can thrive at the enterprise level, their impact can be constrained by city infrastructure. Three innovative London fashion startups reveal the dissonance between startup innovation and urban infrastructure.

Circular Economy
Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are urban areas that produce more renewable energy than they consume. Digital twins can help planners develop PEDs in line with circular economic principles.



Capabilities
Leading Chinese and US companies are building dynamic capabilities to help them innovate in challenging technological domains.

Digital Marketing
Older consumers are the fastest growing and most affluent demographic, but they are frequently neglected in marketing practice and research. Mature influences and content creators can help bridge the gap.

California Management Review

Published at Berkeley Haas for more than sixty years, California Management Review seeks to share knowledge that challenges convention and shows a better way of doing business.

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