Community Bio-Circular Value Creation: An Integrative Organizational Framework for Community-Driven Circular Bioeconomy

Community-driven circular bioeconomy offers significant potential for transforming biological resources and organic waste into sustainable economic, social, and environmental value. However, existing organizational perspectives remain fragmented in explaining how communities mobilize biological resources, develop collective capabilities, institutionalize entrepreneurial activities, and coordinate multiple stakeholders to sustain circular value creation. This study addresses this theoretical fragmentation by developing the Community Bio-Circular Value Creation Framework (CBCVCF) as an integrative organizational framework for community-driven circular bioeconomy. Using a theory-building conceptual research design, the study synthesizes complementary insights from the Resource-Based View, Dynamic Capability Theory, Community Enterprise, Social Enterprise, Circular Business Models, and Circular Business Ecosystems. The theoretical synthesis generates three principal contributions. First, Community Bio-Circular Enterprise (CBCE) is conceptualized as a community-centered organizational platform that institutionalizes collective capability through entrepreneurship, collaborative governance, organizational learning, and circular resource management. Second, Strategic Community Value Creation (SCVC) is introduced as a multidimensional transformation process through which CBCEs generate mutually reinforcing economic, social, environmental, and institutional value. Third, these concepts are integrated within the CBCVCF, which explains the sequential transformation of strategic biological resources and community capability into multidimensional value, community prosperity, community resilience, and ultimately sustainable regional development. By repositioning communities from peripheral stakeholders or beneficiaries to strategic organizational actors, the framework extends existing firm-centered and ecosystem-level perspectives on circular value creation. The study contributes an integrative theoretical foundation for understanding community-centered circular bioeconomy and provides a basis for future empirical validation across diverse sectors, institutional settings, and geographical contexts.