Guest editorial: Empirically grounded research in logistics and supply chain management for a circular economy

The CE is driven by intentional design, aiming to drastically improve resource efficiency by restoring technical materials and regenerating biological materials to keep them in circulation instead of sending them to a landfill as in a linear economy (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2015). [...]we point to research directions for CE and CSCM. The results suggest critical enablers including supportive legislative framework, understanding CE's economic benefits and knowledge and research support. Using bibliometric analysis tools, the study maps out the development trends in the domain and identifies five prominent research clusters related to reverse channel optimization and closed-loop and circular SCM.