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Pie graph showing the proportion of the empirical articles (%) within the electronics supply chain governance literature (1999e2018) which focus on each of the electronics value chain stages (i.e. input, throughput and output stages).
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Electronics are produced, consumed and disposed of through a highly complex, globalised value chain, creating numerous challenges in the governance of sustainable electronics. To understand how sustainability is governed throughout the electronics value chain, this paper uses current literature to analyse the structure (e.g. actors) and composition...
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... can be understood as an evolving field between 1999 and 2018 (see Fig. 2). Since 2009 input processes have emerged in the literature, which follows a phase dominated by articles on output processes. Meanwhile, the literature focused on sustainability governance at the corporate level remains relatively consistent. Furthermore, as shown in Fig. 3 there is a relatively even distribution of research between the three main stages of sustainability governance in the GVC, which can be used to conclude that sustainability risks are equally as poignant within each of these stages. However, this does not mean to say that all sustainability risks receive equal representation in the ...
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