Abstract
Despite extensive research on e-waste management, the integrative responsibilities of multi-stakeholders and the dependency on technology remain underexplored. This study aims to develop an integrative multi-stakeholder responsibility model to advance the net-zero goal in e-waste management. Following the PRISMA protocol, we conducted a systematic review of 99 articles. The review revealed three themes of stakeholder responsibility, four performance measure categories, three e-waste solutions, and four roles of smart technologies. These insights informed the development of a conceptual model to enhance environmental performance in e-waste. The proposed model emphasises critical attributes of multi-stakeholder relationships, including partnership, shared responsibility, inclusiveness, and transparency; it offers practical guidance for multi-stakeholders in prioritising efficient and mature technologies to be adopted and diffused, enabling effective e-waste management. Our study extends stakeholder theory from an organisation-centric to a problem-based perspective, highlighting its practical implications for effective e-waste management and suggesting future research directions for sustainability.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | (In-Press) |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Business Strategy and the Environment |
| Volume | (In-Press) |
| Early online date | 14 Sept 2024 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 14 Sept 2024 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- circularity
- environmental performance
- e-waste
- extended stakeholder theory
- multi-stakeholder responsibility
- net zero
