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Dr Roberta De Angelis
(she/her)
Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy
- DeAngelisR@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76631
- Aberconway Building, Room B30, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Roberta De Angelis is a Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School, a member of Circular Economy Research and Innovation Group Wales (CERIG), and an affiliate to the SRSC Forum-Research-Cardiff University. Prior to joining the Cardiff Business School as a lecturer, she was a Research Associate at The Exeter Centre for Circular Economy and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the circular economy at The Exeter Business School, wherein as a teaching assistant, she contributed to the delivery of the Circular Masterclass, a circular economy on-line course for business executives. Her research focusses on circular entrepreneurship from a business model perspective, the socio-ethical dimensions of the circular economy, the organisational paradoxes emerging in the process of business model innovation for circularity and the conceptual and theoretical foundations of circular economy thinking and circular business models.
Publication
2024
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2024. Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach. Business Strategy and the Environment (10.1002/bse.3730)
2023
- De Angelis, R., Morgan, R. and De Luca, L. M. 2023. Open strategy and dynamic capabilities: a framework for circular economy business models research. Business Strategy and the Environment 32(7), pp. 4861-4873. (10.1002/bse.3397)
- De Angelis, R. 2023. A Circular Business Model Framework Based on Insights from Systems Thinking. Presented at: 8th International Conference on New Business Models, 22-23 June 2023New Business Models Conference Proceedings 2023. Maastricht University Press
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2023. Complexity and reductionism at the source of the current impasse in economic theory and ecology: Which model of man for the Anthropocene?. Presented at: 6th International Conference “Economic Philosophy”: Economic Philosophy in the Age of the Anthropocene, Lille, France, 29 June - 1 July 2023.
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2023. The quest for microfoundations in management and economics and the neglect of the concept of relation in the agency vs structure debate.. Presented at: 15th Philosophy of Management Conference, Oxford, UK, 2-5 June 2023.
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2023. In search for better theories? Towards the six ‘Es’ of a circular economy based sustainability management theory. Presented at: 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
- DeAngelis, R. 2023. Circular economy teaching in business & management education: Experience from a public value business school. Presented at: 10th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, 26-28 September 2023.
2022
- De Angelis, R. and Peattie, K. 2022. Return to reintegration? Towards a circular-economy-inspired management paradigm. Circular Economy and Sustainability (10.1007/s43615-022-00245-y)
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular economy business models as resilient complex adaptive systems. Business Strategy and the Environment 31(5), pp. 2245-2255. (10.1002/bse.3019)
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular economy business models: A repertoire of theoretical relationships and a research agenda. Circular Economy and Sustainability 2, pp. 433-446. (10.1007/s43615-021-00133-x)
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2022. Uncovering the dialogical dimension of corporate responsibility: towards a transcendental approach to economics with an application to the circular economy.. In: Faldetta, G., Mollona, E. and Pellegrini, M. M. eds. Philosophy and Business Ethics: Organisations, CSR and Moral Practice.. Palgrave Macmillan
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular business models and theoretical anchoring: are we there?. Presented at: 7th International Conference on New Business Models, 22-24 June 2022 Presented at Michelini, L., Mina', A. and Alaino Di Loro, P. eds.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on New Business Models: Sustainable Business Models Challenges: Economic Recovery and Digital Transformation. Lumsa University, Rome, Italy pp. 357-359.
- Ianulardo, G. and De Angelis, R. 2022. Humanising business education with moral imagination and human betterment: the contribution of the circular economy to a renewed philosophy of higher education. Presented at: 14th Philosophy of Management Conference, Oxford, UK, 1st-4th July 2022.
2021
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Business and natural environment in the Anthropocene: is the circular economy the way forward?. Presented at: 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), Virtual, 29 July - 04 August 2021 Presented at Taneja, S. ed., Vol. 2021. Vol. 1. Academy of Management, (10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11385abstract)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular economy: laying the foundations for conceptual and theoretical development in management studies. Management Decision 59(6), pp. 1209-1227. (10.1108/MD-05-2019-0587)
- Cullen, U. and De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular entrepreneurship: A business model perspective. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 168, article number: 105300. (10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105300)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular economy and paradox theory: a business model perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production 285, article number: 124823. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124823)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Language matters: aiming for consolidation or sticking to complexity in circular business models literature?. Presented at: New Business Models Conference 2021, Halmstad, Sweden, 9-11 June 2021.
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2021. The dialogical dimension of corporate responsibility: an analysis and an application to the circular economy. Presented at: European Academy of Management Online Conference 2021 (EURAM), Montreal, Canada, 16-18 June 2021.
- Koenig-Lewis, N., Bosangit, C. and De Angelis, R. 2021. Could renting be the 'new buying'? Perspectives on consumers' role in prolonging product lifetimes.. Presented at: 4th Conference on Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE 2021), Virtual, 26-28 May 2021.
- Bosangit, C., De Angelis, R., Koenig-Lewis, N. and Carrigan, M. 2021. Reframing circular economy as a marketing priority: emphasising the role of consumers. Presented at: 2021 Academy of Marketing Annual Conference, Virtual, 5-7 July 2021.
2020
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2020. Circular economy as fictional expectation to overcome societal addictions. Where do we stand?. Philosophy of Management 19, pp. 133-153. (10.1007/s40926-020-00128-y)
- Hopkinson, P., De Angelis, R. and Zils, M. 2020. Systemic building blocks for creating and capturing value from circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 155, article number: 104672. (10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104672)
- De Angelis, R. and Feola, R. 2020. Circular business models in biological cycles: the case of an Italian spin-off. Journal of Cleaner Production 247, article number: 119603. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119603)
- De Angelis, R. 2020. Business model innovation in the circular economy: a paradox perspective. Presented at: IS4CE2020 Circular Economy Conference, Online, 6-7 July 2020.
- Cullen, U. and De Angelis, R. 2020. Cornish wasted apples: a case study of a circular business model.. Presented at: 34th Annual British Academy of Management Conference (BAM 2020), Virtual - Manchester, England, 2-4 September 2020.
2019
- Ianulardo, G. and De Angelis, R. 2019. The contribution of circular economy to human betterment: Moral imagination and teleological ethics.. Presented at: European Academy of Management Conference, 26-28 June 2019.
- Gravagnuolo, A., De Angelis, R. and Iodice, S. 2019. Circular economy strategies in the historic built environment: Cultural heritage adaptive reuse.. Presented at: 18th Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies Conference., 6-7 May 2019. pp. -.
2018
- De Angelis, R., Howard, M. and Miemczyk, J. 2018. Supply chain management and the circular economy: Towards the circular supply chain.. Production Planning and Control 29(6), pp. 425-437. (10.1080/09537287.2018.1449244)
- De Angelis, R. 2018. Business models in the circular economy. Concepts, examples and theory.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-75127-6)
- De Angelis, R. 2018. Circular business models: Towards a systematic conceptualisation.. Presented at: Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present and Future, Exeter, Devon, 17-19 June 2018. pp. -.
- De Angelis, R. and Howard, M. 2018. The circular economy: from buzz word to conceptual and theoretical clarity in management studies.. Presented at: 2018 British Academy of Management Conference, Bristol, England, 4-6 September 2018BAM2019 Proceedings.
2014
- De Angelis, R., Howard, M., Richard, O. and Whittaker, J. 2014. Emergence of business models for a circular economy: Empirical insights using a resource and institutional perspective.. Presented at: Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, 14-17 September 2014. pp. -.
Articles
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2024. Circular economy principles as a basis for a sustainability management theory: A systems thinking and moral imagination approach. Business Strategy and the Environment (10.1002/bse.3730)
- De Angelis, R., Morgan, R. and De Luca, L. M. 2023. Open strategy and dynamic capabilities: a framework for circular economy business models research. Business Strategy and the Environment 32(7), pp. 4861-4873. (10.1002/bse.3397)
- De Angelis, R. and Peattie, K. 2022. Return to reintegration? Towards a circular-economy-inspired management paradigm. Circular Economy and Sustainability (10.1007/s43615-022-00245-y)
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular economy business models as resilient complex adaptive systems. Business Strategy and the Environment 31(5), pp. 2245-2255. (10.1002/bse.3019)
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular economy business models: A repertoire of theoretical relationships and a research agenda. Circular Economy and Sustainability 2, pp. 433-446. (10.1007/s43615-021-00133-x)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular economy: laying the foundations for conceptual and theoretical development in management studies. Management Decision 59(6), pp. 1209-1227. (10.1108/MD-05-2019-0587)
- Cullen, U. and De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular entrepreneurship: A business model perspective. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 168, article number: 105300. (10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105300)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Circular economy and paradox theory: a business model perspective. Journal of Cleaner Production 285, article number: 124823. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124823)
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2020. Circular economy as fictional expectation to overcome societal addictions. Where do we stand?. Philosophy of Management 19, pp. 133-153. (10.1007/s40926-020-00128-y)
- Hopkinson, P., De Angelis, R. and Zils, M. 2020. Systemic building blocks for creating and capturing value from circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 155, article number: 104672. (10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104672)
- De Angelis, R. and Feola, R. 2020. Circular business models in biological cycles: the case of an Italian spin-off. Journal of Cleaner Production 247, article number: 119603. (10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119603)
- De Angelis, R., Howard, M. and Miemczyk, J. 2018. Supply chain management and the circular economy: Towards the circular supply chain.. Production Planning and Control 29(6), pp. 425-437. (10.1080/09537287.2018.1449244)
Book sections
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2022. Uncovering the dialogical dimension of corporate responsibility: towards a transcendental approach to economics with an application to the circular economy.. In: Faldetta, G., Mollona, E. and Pellegrini, M. M. eds. Philosophy and Business Ethics: Organisations, CSR and Moral Practice.. Palgrave Macmillan
Books
- De Angelis, R. 2018. Business models in the circular economy. Concepts, examples and theory.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-75127-6)
Conferences
- De Angelis, R. 2023. A Circular Business Model Framework Based on Insights from Systems Thinking. Presented at: 8th International Conference on New Business Models, 22-23 June 2023New Business Models Conference Proceedings 2023. Maastricht University Press
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2023. Complexity and reductionism at the source of the current impasse in economic theory and ecology: Which model of man for the Anthropocene?. Presented at: 6th International Conference “Economic Philosophy”: Economic Philosophy in the Age of the Anthropocene, Lille, France, 29 June - 1 July 2023.
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2023. The quest for microfoundations in management and economics and the neglect of the concept of relation in the agency vs structure debate.. Presented at: 15th Philosophy of Management Conference, Oxford, UK, 2-5 June 2023.
- De Angelis, R. and Ianulardo, G. 2023. In search for better theories? Towards the six ‘Es’ of a circular economy based sustainability management theory. Presented at: 39th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy, 6-8 July 2023.
- DeAngelis, R. 2023. Circular economy teaching in business & management education: Experience from a public value business school. Presented at: 10th Responsible Management Education Research Conference, 26-28 September 2023.
- De Angelis, R. 2022. Circular business models and theoretical anchoring: are we there?. Presented at: 7th International Conference on New Business Models, 22-24 June 2022 Presented at Michelini, L., Mina', A. and Alaino Di Loro, P. eds.Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on New Business Models: Sustainable Business Models Challenges: Economic Recovery and Digital Transformation. Lumsa University, Rome, Italy pp. 357-359.
- Ianulardo, G. and De Angelis, R. 2022. Humanising business education with moral imagination and human betterment: the contribution of the circular economy to a renewed philosophy of higher education. Presented at: 14th Philosophy of Management Conference, Oxford, UK, 1st-4th July 2022.
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Business and natural environment in the Anthropocene: is the circular economy the way forward?. Presented at: 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM 2021), Virtual, 29 July - 04 August 2021 Presented at Taneja, S. ed., Vol. 2021. Vol. 1. Academy of Management, (10.5465/AMBPP.2021.11385abstract)
- De Angelis, R. 2021. Language matters: aiming for consolidation or sticking to complexity in circular business models literature?. Presented at: New Business Models Conference 2021, Halmstad, Sweden, 9-11 June 2021.
- Ianulardo, G., Stella, A. and De Angelis, R. 2021. The dialogical dimension of corporate responsibility: an analysis and an application to the circular economy. Presented at: European Academy of Management Online Conference 2021 (EURAM), Montreal, Canada, 16-18 June 2021.
- Koenig-Lewis, N., Bosangit, C. and De Angelis, R. 2021. Could renting be the 'new buying'? Perspectives on consumers' role in prolonging product lifetimes.. Presented at: 4th Conference on Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE 2021), Virtual, 26-28 May 2021.
- Bosangit, C., De Angelis, R., Koenig-Lewis, N. and Carrigan, M. 2021. Reframing circular economy as a marketing priority: emphasising the role of consumers. Presented at: 2021 Academy of Marketing Annual Conference, Virtual, 5-7 July 2021.
- De Angelis, R. 2020. Business model innovation in the circular economy: a paradox perspective. Presented at: IS4CE2020 Circular Economy Conference, Online, 6-7 July 2020.
- Cullen, U. and De Angelis, R. 2020. Cornish wasted apples: a case study of a circular business model.. Presented at: 34th Annual British Academy of Management Conference (BAM 2020), Virtual - Manchester, England, 2-4 September 2020.
- Ianulardo, G. and De Angelis, R. 2019. The contribution of circular economy to human betterment: Moral imagination and teleological ethics.. Presented at: European Academy of Management Conference, 26-28 June 2019.
- Gravagnuolo, A., De Angelis, R. and Iodice, S. 2019. Circular economy strategies in the historic built environment: Cultural heritage adaptive reuse.. Presented at: 18th Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies Conference., 6-7 May 2019. pp. -.
- De Angelis, R. 2018. Circular business models: Towards a systematic conceptualisation.. Presented at: Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present and Future, Exeter, Devon, 17-19 June 2018. pp. -.
- De Angelis, R. and Howard, M. 2018. The circular economy: from buzz word to conceptual and theoretical clarity in management studies.. Presented at: 2018 British Academy of Management Conference, Bristol, England, 4-6 September 2018BAM2019 Proceedings.
- De Angelis, R., Howard, M., Richard, O. and Whittaker, J. 2014. Emergence of business models for a circular economy: Empirical insights using a resource and institutional perspective.. Presented at: Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, 14-17 September 2014. pp. -.
Research
Research Interests
- Circular economy.
- Circular business models.
- Sustainable business models.
Funding, Impact and Engagement Events
- UK & Ireland PRME Chapter Faculty Research Seed Funding Competition 2023: Developing a purpose ecosystem in higher education through humanistic business education and moral imagination (Co-I) with Giancarlo Ianulardo (PI), University of Exeter Business School.
- British Academy of Management/Societa' Italiana Management: Doing business in the age of the Anthropocene - An empirical investigation of circular economy business models (PI) (with Vesci, M. October 2022-April 2024).
- Cardiff Business School Blog, 16th December 2020. Creating and capturing value in a circular economy: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/business-school/2020/12/16/creating-and-capturing-value-in-the-circular-economy/
- Invited speaker at the GW4 Climate Alliance launch event, 20th of October 2021.
- Organiser and speaker at the 2021's ESRC Festival of Social Science, public event, Reuse and repair: Creating value in a circular economy, 10th November 2021.
Teaching
Principles of Marketing and Strategy - Undergraduate Yr 1 - Module leader.
Marketing in Context - MSc Marketing - Module leader.
Strategy and Innovation - Help to Grow - Management - Executive education.
Transformational Entrepreneurship and Innovation - MSc Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
My public value teaching: circular economy
Biography
QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD Management Studies (business model innovation in the circular economy), Exeter Business School;
- MSc International Management with distinction, Exeter Business School;
- BSc Economics, University of Salerno (Italy).
Honours and awards
- Exeter Business School PhD Scholarship (2012-2015).
Professional memberships
- International Society for Circular Economy.
- Wales Circular Economy Research and Innovation Group.
- GW4 Net Zero Network.
- British Academy of Management.
- British Academy Early Career Researcher Network.
- Group for Research on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN).
- European Group Organisation Studies (EGOS).
- Fellow of Advance Higher Education.
- Whitehall & Industry Group.
Academic positions
- Present: Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff Business School;
- 2018-2019: Research associate and teaching assistant, Exeter Business School;
- 2017-2018: Postdoctoral research fellow in the circular economy, Exeter Business School;
- 2013-2016: Teaching and marking assistant, Exeter Business School.
Speaking engagements
- Organiser and speaker at Reuse and Repair: Creating Value in a Circular Economy. Cardiff University's ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, November 2021.
- Invited speaker at the GW4 Climate Alliance launch event. October 2021.
- Invited speaker at the British Academy of Management Digital Transformation and Circular Entrepreneurship International Symposium. Falmouth Business School (UK), March 2020.
Committees and reviewing
- Editorial review board member for Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility.
- Editorial board member for Circular Economy and Sustainability.
- Grant reviewer for The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
- Ad-hoc reviewer for Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ad-hoc reviewer for Business Strategy & The Environment.
- Ad-hoc reviewer for Oxford University Press.
- Ad-hoc reviewer for R&D Management.
- Ad-hoc reviewer for Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
- Ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Product Innovation Management Annual Research Forum.
- Organising committee member of the international academic symposium ‘Circular Economy Disruptions – Past, Present and Future', University of Exeter Business School, (2017-2018).
- Steering committee member of the Circular Economy Business Forum, an initiative of The Exeter Business School seeking to assist local firms in the implementation of circular economy principles (2014-2015).
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
- circular economy;
- business model innovation for circular economy.
Research themes
Specialisms
- circular economy
- circular business models
- sustainable business models
- corporate sustainability
- Strategy, management and organisational behaviour