This mini review explores the integration of recycled nutrient fertilizers (RNFs) into practices for sustainable agriculture within the circular economy framework. Regional nutrient imbalances challenge the efficiency of implementing nutrient recycling and concerns about contaminants such as potentially toxic elements, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes hinder the adoption of RNFs. This review examines the technological, environmental, economic, and policy dimensions of nutrient recycling, highlighting how these practices align with circular economy principles to promote resource efficiency, waste reduction and reduced environmental impact. The review underscores the importance of economic feasibility, supportive policies, and public perception in facilitating RNF adoption. Technological innovations like struvite precipitation and biochar production show promise but face challenges such as high costs and contamination risks. Effective policy frameworks and stakeholder engagement are crucial for broader acceptance. This interdisciplinary review draws insights from environmental science, economics, and agricultural engineering, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of how RNFs can enhance sustainable agricultural practices. The findings suggest that continued technological innovation, effective contamination management, supportive policies, and market incentives, combined with stakeholder education on the benefits and safety of RNFs, can significantly improve public perception and adoption. Together, these factors can contribute substantially to building a more sustainable and resilient agricultural system.

Theoretical foundations to intercultural communication (ICC) are integrative and interdisciplinary but few have studied ICC from a systemic linguistics perspective. Viewing communication as a dialogic process, this study takes a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) view of language as a social semiotic where semogenesis (meaning making) is both construed and construed by context of situation which in turn is construed by culture. Using interview data collected from Swedish managers who have extensive international management experiences, this study aims to illustrate how SFL can be used as an adaptive theory and framework of discourse analysis in uncovering semogenic strategies in ICC processes.

Purpose: This study seeks to investigate how a more lateral style of working, such as the Swedish model of management that reflects a more linear manner of managing organizational knowledge, is carried over and transferred to Swedish managed organizations in Singapore.Design/methodology/approach: A total of 33 top‐level managers (23 Scandinavians and ten Asians) who worked in Swedish managed organizations in Singapore were interviewed for this study. It was necessary that the respondents were in top‐level management positions, the assumption being that it was their decisions and actions that steered the organization to its goals. The respondents were selected randomly and came from a variety of industry backgrounds.Findings: The Swedish style of handling information and knowledge within the organization has proven more open, flexible and accessible than Singaporeans might initially expect or understand. This cultural difference of who gains access to timely information and who should use that information to make decisions, for example, first met with a lack of understanding and even inaction on the part of the Singaporeans and active measures are needed such as re‐structuring the organization or a constant communicative strategy by the Swedes to first make a change in direction in organization behaviour. This means that the organizations in this study, in keeping a high standard of employee satisfaction, get to retain, harvest and profit from their organization's knowledge base while enjoying a low turnover rate in human capital.Originality/value: This study aims to take a complementary approach of exploring the Swedish management style via discourse analysis, with the transcribed long interview data sorted with the coding procedures adapted from grounded theory.