Framework Proposal to Organize Sustainability Strategies Towards a Transition to the Circular Economy

This study aims to propose a structure to organize sustainability strategies for Schools of Thought in the circular economy, to guide the introduction of circularity in the companies’ business model, meeting the needs of researchers and managers. In the research, the systematic bibliographic method was used to analyze scientific articles on the circular economy, level of analysis, stock of knowledge on circular economy and the perspective of diachronic analysis, seeking to understand its evolution over time; the data were organized with the aid of a synthesizing table, where the characteristics of each school of thought were gathered and then interpreted with the content analysis technique, seeking meaning for all terms cataloged in the same semantic field. The strategies were organized in the stages of the technical cycle of the Systemic Diagram of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF). The conclusion shows that the structure created can guide the transition to an era of a more circular economy.