Nancy Bocken

33.0k total citations · 15 hit papers
149 papers, 21.1k citations indexed

About

Nancy Bocken is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Marketing and Business and International Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Bocken has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 21.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Strategy and Management, 101 papers in Marketing and 36 papers in Business and International Management. Recurrent topics in Nancy Bocken's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (115 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (66 papers) and Service and Product Innovation (43 papers). Nancy Bocken is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (115 papers), Environmental Sustainability in Business (66 papers) and Service and Product Innovation (43 papers). Nancy Bocken collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom. Nancy Bocken's co-authors include Erik Jan Hultink, Martin Geissdoerfer, Paulo Savaget, Samuel W. Short, P. Rana, S. Evans, Conny Bakker, Jan Konietzko, Brian Baldassarre and Stefan Gold and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Business Research.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Bocken

141 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm? 2013 2026 2017 2021 2016 2013 2016 2018 2019 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?
    2016 4.8k citations Nancy Bocken, Erik Jan Hultink et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  2. A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes
    2013 2.5k citations Nancy Bocken, Samuel W. Short et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  3. Product design and business model strategies for a circular economy
    2016 2.3k citations Nancy Bocken et al. profile →
  4. A Review and Typology of Circular Economy Business Model Patterns
    2018 746 citations Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Stefan Gold et al. Journal of Industrial Ecology profile →
  5. Barriers and drivers to sustainable business model innovation: Organization design and dynamic capabilities
    2019 465 citations Nancy Bocken, Thijs Geradts Long Range Planning profile →
  6. A value mapping tool for sustainable business modelling
    2013 438 citations Nancy Bocken, Samuel W. Short et al. profile →
  7. Circular Economy in the building sector: Three cases and a collaboration tool
    2017 361 citations Nancy Bocken et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  8. Do circular economy business models capture intended environmental value propositions?
    2017 333 citations Nancy Bocken et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  9. Design thinking to enhance the sustainable business modelling process – A workshop based on a value mapping process
    2016 323 citations Nancy Bocken, Erik Jan Hultink et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  10. Experimenting with a circular business model: Lessons from eight cases
    2018 317 citations Nancy Bocken et al. profile →
  11. Circular ecosystem innovation: An initial set of principles
    2019 314 citations Jan Konietzko, Nancy Bocken et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  12. Circular Cities: Mapping Six Cities in Transition
    2017 298 citations Nancy Bocken et al. profile →
  13. Sustainable venture capital – catalyst for sustainable start-up success?
    2015 259 citations Nancy Bocken Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
  14. Circular Digital Built Environment: An Emerging Framework
    2021 213 citations Nancy Bocken et al. profile →
  15. A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
    2024 31 citations Nancy Bocken et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nancy Bocken Netherlands 61 15.1k 9.8k 4.3k 3.6k 2.3k 149 21.1k
Stefan Seuring Germany 61 15.2k 1.0× 7.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 2.8k 1.2× 160 20.2k
Kee‐hung Lai Hong Kong 76 15.0k 1.0× 9.1k 0.9× 2.6k 0.6× 870 0.2× 2.7k 1.1× 297 22.2k
Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour Brazil 78 14.4k 1.0× 10.9k 1.1× 3.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 296 21.6k
Qinghua Zhu China 72 19.7k 1.3× 12.9k 1.3× 2.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 4.9k 2.1× 170 23.8k
Sunil Luthra India 73 9.8k 0.6× 4.0k 0.4× 3.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.3× 1.6k 0.7× 265 16.9k
Marko P. Hekkert Netherlands 58 7.9k 0.5× 3.5k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 174 17.8k
Ming‐Lang Tseng Taiwan 80 10.3k 0.7× 5.2k 0.5× 2.5k 0.6× 706 0.2× 2.6k 1.1× 490 22.0k
Sachin Kumar Mangla India 72 9.7k 0.6× 3.6k 0.4× 3.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 1.5k 0.6× 245 15.9k
Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour Brazil 56 9.3k 0.6× 5.7k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 997 0.3× 1.2k 0.5× 190 13.3k
Joseph Sarkis United States 117 41.4k 2.8× 21.6k 2.2× 6.5k 1.5× 2.5k 0.7× 8.6k 3.7× 484 58.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Bocken

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Opstal, Wim Van, Nancy Bocken, & Jan Brusselaers. (2025). Unlocking the Social Circular Economy: Value Propositions and Organizational Design of Social Circular Hubs. Business Strategy and the Environment. 34(8). 10613–10636.
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Opstal, Wim Van, Nancy Bocken, & Jan Brusselaers. (2025). Cooperating for circularity? Perspectives of citizen energy cooperative members on circular solar business models. Journal of Cleaner Production. 487. 144653–144653. 3 indexed citations
3.
Bocken, Nancy, et al.. (2025). Marketing in the anthropocene: A future agenda for research and practice. AMS Review. 15(1-2). 23–47. 2 indexed citations
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Vehmas, Kaisa, et al.. (2024). Understanding Consumer Attitudes Towards Sustainable Business Models—A Qualitative Study with Finnish Consumers. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 4(2). 1487–1512. 5 indexed citations
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Baldassarre, Brian, Giulia Calabretta, Ingo Oswald Karpen, Nancy Bocken, & Erik Jan Hultink. (2024). Responsible Design Thinking for Sustainable Development: Critical Literature Review, New Conceptual Framework, and Research Agenda. Journal of Business Ethics. 195(1). 25–46. 11 indexed citations
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Strupeit, Lars, Nancy Bocken, & Wim Van Opstal. (2024). Towards a Circular Solar Power Sector: Experience with a Support Framework for Business Model Innovation. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 4(3). 2093–2118. 10 indexed citations
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Palm, Jenny, et al.. (2024). A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 28(6). 1670–1683. 8 indexed citations
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Opstal, Wim Van, et al.. (2024). Towards sustainable growth paths for work integration social enterprises in the circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 470. 143296–143296. 10 indexed citations
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Bocken, Nancy, et al.. (2024). The Road to Flourishing – Can we drive strongly sustainable business intention through a game-based tool?. Journal of Cleaner Production. 474. 143567–143567. 2 indexed citations
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Konietzko, Jan, Ankita Das, & Nancy Bocken. (2023). Towards regenerative business models: A necessary shift?. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 38. 372–388. 67 indexed citations
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Konietzko, Jan, et al.. (2023). How do circular start-ups achieve scale?. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 40. 363–375. 29 indexed citations
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Bocken, Nancy, et al.. (2023). Sustainable by design: An organizational design tool for sustainable business model innovation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 427. 139294–139294. 19 indexed citations
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Snihur, Yuliya & Nancy Bocken. (2022). A call for action: The impact of business model innovation on business ecosystems, society and planet. Long Range Planning. 55(6). 102182–102182. 90 indexed citations
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Blasch, Julia, N.M. van der Grijp, Jenny Palm, et al.. (2021). New clean energy communities in polycentric settings: Four avenues for future research. Energy Research & Social Science. 82. 102276–102276. 58 indexed citations
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Geradts, Thijs & Nancy Bocken. (2019). Driving sustainability-oriented innovation. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 19 indexed citations
16.
Lüdeke‐Freund, Florian, Stefan Gold, & Nancy Bocken. (2018). A Review and Typology of Circular Economy Business Model Patterns. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(1). 36–61. 746 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bocken, Nancy, Elsa Olivetti, Jonathan M. Cullen, José Potting, & Reid Lifset. (2017). Taking the Circularity to the Next Level: A Special Issue on the Circular Economy. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(3). 476–482. 250 indexed citations
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Bocken, Nancy, Paavo Ritala, & Pontus Huotari. (2017). The Circular Economy: Exploring the Introduction of the Concept Among S&P 500 Firms. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 21(3). 487–490. 108 indexed citations
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Bocken, Nancy. (2014). Sustainable Business: The New Business as Usual?. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18(5). 684–686. 4 indexed citations
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Short, Samuel W., Nancy Bocken, Claire Y. Barlow, & Marian Chertow. (2014). From Refining Sugar to Growing Tomatoes. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 18(5). 603–618. 100 indexed citations

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