Adeyemi Adelekan

Biography

Adeyemi Adelekan is a researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. He studies the process of creating circular business models, examining barriers, opportunities, and strategies for their development and adoption at both the firm level and within multistakeholder settings. Adeyemi’s research draws on business management and organization theories, utilizing qualitative and co-creation methods. His approach immerses him in participants’ perspectives, prioritizing their values and interests in the process of creating adoptable sustainable and circular business models. Having investigated circular business models in social enterprises and the plastics supply chain, Adeyemi’s work now extends to the construction sector. He is a Researcher Co-Investigator for the circular business models work package in BuildZero, a £6 million project aimed at enabling the UK’s building sector to achieve zero new material extractions, zero emissions, and zero waste. Adeyemi disseminates his findings through academic publications, policy briefs, conference presentations, workshops, podcasts, and blogs. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Salford Business School and a BSc (Hons) in Communications Technology from the National Open University of Nigeria. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Adeyemi also founded and directs a technical support platform for African social enterprises and consults with early-stage entrepreneurs working towards sustainability across Africa and the UK.

Selected Publications

• Journal paper: Co-creating or Confounding? Hybrid Legitimacy Evaluation of Circular Business Models in the U.K. Plastics Sector. (Open access)
• Journal paper: Collaborative digitally-enabled business models for a circular economy: Sustaining, managing and protecting value in the UK plastics sector. (Open access)
• Policy commentary: Plastics policies are changing the game—but are SMEs being left behind?
• Policy commentary: Catalysts or Constraints? Emerging Policies for a Circular Plastics System in the UK.
• Extended Abstract: New circular business models for the UK plastics sector.
• Article: Trash can.
• Article: Disrupting the idea of waste: how social enterprises are establishing the circular economy in Lagos
• Article: Developing differently: social enterprise innovations for the circular economy in Lagos Nigeria
• Article: Acknowledging new realities for Nigerian social entrepreneurs | Workshop reflections
• Article: Circular Economy Strategies of Social Enterprises in Lagos: Summary of research findings with recommendations for policy makers and practitioners
• Research: Circular Economy strategies of social enterprises in Lagos: a case study approach.