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Die Transformation hin zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft wird in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union als zentraler Teil einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung vorangetrieben. Die praktische Umsetzung steht jedoch noch am Anfang. Wir beleuchten vier Schlüsselbereiche, die "Bruchstellen" zur bisherigen linearen Wirtschaft im Übergang zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft darstellen: (1) die Digitalisierung zur Verbesserung des Informationsaustauschs und der Rückverfolgbarkeit von Produkten, (2) die Regionalisierung und Umstrukturierung von Lieferketten, (3) die Überwindung von Obsoleszenz zur Verlängerung der Produktlebensdauer und (4) die Förderung einer gemeinsamen Nutzung (Sharing) von Produkten und Ressourcen. Wir schließen mit Handlungsempfehlungen für Politik, Unternehmen und Bürger*innen.

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will require large companies to create transparency about their environmental and social impacts, including those in the supply chain. New laws on corporate supply chain due diligence, such as the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) or the planned European Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), oblige companies to address environmental damage and human rights violations in their supply chains and report on the outcome. In the context of the current debate on easing reporting burdens for companies, this factsheet examines the compatibility of the environmental reporting requirements from the CSRD with those of selected due diligence laws to identify synergies and gaps.

PurposeManaging supply chains (SCs) for sustainability often results in conflicting demands, which can be conceptualized as sustainability tensions. This paper studies sustainability tensions in electronics SC contexts and the related management responses by applying a paradox perspective.Design/methodology/approachA single case study on the electronics SC is conducted with companies and third-party organizations as embedded units of analysis, using semi-structured interviews that are triangulated with publicly available data.FindingsThe study identifies tension elements (learning, belonging, organizing and economic performing) conflicting with general social–ecological objectives in the electronics SC. The results indicate a hierarchal structure among the sustainability tensions in SC contexts. The management responses of contextualization and resolution are assigned to the identified tensions.Practical implicationsFraming social–ecological objectives with their conflicting elements as paradoxical tensions enables organizations and SCs to develop better strategies for responding to complex sustainability issues in SC contexts.Originality/valueThe study contributes toward filling the gap on paradoxical sustainability tensions in SCs. Empirical insights are gained from different actors in the electronics SC. The level of emergence and interconnectedness of sustainability tensions in a larger SC context is explored through an outside-in perspective.