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Frank Figge

Full Professor of Sustainability

Department : Sustainability
Campus : Paris

Frank Figge is Professor of Sustainability at ESCP’s Paris campus. His current primary research interests focus on Circular Economy, Paradox Management, and Sustainability Assessments and Evaluation. His research has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Industrial Ecology. He holds a PhD from the University of Basle (Switzerland). Before coming to France, he was a full Professor at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland), and a Reader at the University of Leeds (England). Frank is also the Per and Eivor Wikström Guest Professor at Umeå University (Sweden). More information can be found on his Google Scholar profile: Google Scholar Profile In his spare time, he helps take care of street dogs saved by a shelter, which he considers to be a brilliant laboratory for the art of management at the same time.

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2023

FIGGE, F., F. MARTINEZ, S. CASTELLANO, A. CHAKRABORTY, L. SILVA-GAO

How did corporate responses to the Covid-19 pandemic correspond with CSR?

BUSINESS ETHICS : A EUROPEAN REVIEW

Academic Articles

2023

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, M. GUTBERLET

Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Academic Articles

2023

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE

Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view.  

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Academic Articles

2022

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI

Value Creation and the Circular Economy: A Tale of Three Externalities

JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, 26(5), 1690-1700

Academic Articles

2022

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI, M. GUTBERLET

The us in reUSe. Theorizing the how and why of the circular economy

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 31(6), 2741-2753

Academic Articles

2022

FIGGE, F., S. DIMITROV, R. SCHLOSSER, R. CHENAVAZ

Does the circular economy fuel the throwaway society? The role of opportunity costs for products that lose value over time.

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 368, 1-9

Academic Articles

2021

FIGGE, F., R. CHENAVAZ, S. DIMITROV

When does eco-efficiency rebound or backfire? An analytical model

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 290(2), 687-700

Academic Articles

2021

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, J. GOOD

Us before me: A group level approach to the circular economy

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 179, 1-8

Academic Articles

2021

FIGGE, F., A. S. THORPE, S. MANZHYNSKI

Between you and I: A portfolio theory of the circular economy

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 190, 107190

Academic Articles

2021

FIGGE, F., T. HAHN

Business-and environment-related drivers of firms’ return on natural resources: A configurational approach

LONG RANGE PLANNING, 54(4), 1-19

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Academic Articles

2023

How did corporate responses to the Covid-19 pandemic correspond with CSR?

Academic Articles

2023

Definitions of the circular economy: Circularity matters

Academic Articles

2023

Circular economy, operational eco-efficiency, and sufficiency. An integrated view.

Academic Articles

2022

Value Creation and the Circular Economy: A Tale of Three Externalities

Academic Articles

2022

The us in reUSe. Theorizing the how and why of the circular economy

Academic Articles

2022

Does the circular economy fuel the throwaway society? The role of opportunity costs for products that lose value over time.

Academic Articles

2021

When does eco-efficiency rebound or backfire? An analytical model

Academic Articles

2021

Us before me: A group level approach to the circular economy

Academic Articles

2021

Between you and I: A portfolio theory of the circular economy

Academic Articles

2021

Business-and environment-related drivers of firms’ return on natural resources: A configurational approach

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