en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <p>&nbsp;</p> <div style="border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-left:24px"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Given the rapid population growth and limited resources, a circular supply chain is vital for the survival of an organization in a competitive environment. Because the demand is increasing with population growth, and if the supply chain is linear, we will eventually face a lot of waste and ecosystem destruction, in a world where changes are increasing rapidly and the culture of consumerism is being promoted, we are faced with a lot of new products every day in the face of this volume of sudden change, supply chain intelligence can significantly contribute to the circularization of the supply chain. The use of tools and equipment that have become available to us with the 4th Industrial Revolution facilitates a circular supply chain, Therefore, organizations must understand the dimensions and effective factors to achieve readiness in a smart circular supply chain. Few studies have been conducted in the country on the readiness of the smart circular supply chain. Therefore, in this study,26 sub-dimensions of smart circular supply chain readiness were considered. The purpose of this research is to create a new theoretical perspective for categorizing the sub-dimensions of the readiness of the Smart circular supply chain by using the opinion of experts to look at the root of the problem with a different perspective. Finally, a cognitive map of the mental image of the experts was drawn and presented by integrating the agreement of the experts&#39; opinions into a new category at three levels.</span></span></span></div> Smart Circular Supply Chain Readiness, Smart Circular Supply Chain Maturity, Circular Supply Chain, Smart Supply Chain, Smart Circular Supply Chain 1 15 http://ijorlu.lahijan.iau.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-568-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 K. Yakideh yakideh@guilan.ac.ir 10031947532846002141 10031947532846002141 Yes Management Department, faculty of management and economics, University of Guilan, Iran F. Eghbali Pirbasti Eghbalif695@gmail.com 10031947532846002142 10031947532846002142 No Management Department, faculty of management and economics, University of Guilan, Iran M. Moradi m.moradi@guilan.ac.ir 10031947532846002143 10031947532846002143 No Management Department, faculty of management and economics, University of Guilan, Iran