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When regulatory sustainability demands hit the value system: impacts of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation on business-to-business companies

Gustafsson, Martin LU and Talts, Ludvig LU (2025) MIOM05 20251
Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences
Production Management
Abstract (Swedish)
Background: The world is facing immense challenges regarding resource depletion, sustainable development and climate change. The European Union has made a commitment to being the first climate neutral continent with the initiative The European Green Deal. One of the regulations in the Green deal is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. A key component is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which will require products to include detailed sustainability data. The ESPR demands are targeted toward B2C-companies, but may also impact B2B-companies upstream the value system.
Purpose: Describe and analyze the introduction and consequences of the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR) on business- to-business... (More)
Background: The world is facing immense challenges regarding resource depletion, sustainable development and climate change. The European Union has made a commitment to being the first climate neutral continent with the initiative The European Green Deal. One of the regulations in the Green deal is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. A key component is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which will require products to include detailed sustainability data. The ESPR demands are targeted toward B2C-companies, but may also impact B2B-companies upstream the value system.
Purpose: Describe and analyze the introduction and consequences of the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR) on business- to-business companies as well as the effects upon the value system, within which they operate.
Method: A descriptive and exploratory strategy is used together with an abductive and iterative approach, to perform a case study on Tetra Pak with semi structured interviews and a literature review, to iteratively gather both primary and secondary qualitative data.


Conclusion: The introduction of ESPR puts demands on B2B-companies to be reliable suppliers for the companies needing to adhere to ecodesign principles and construct DPPs. B2B-companies that are highly product driven with big firm complexity have the highest ESPR demands on the handling of product data. Therefore a firm wide infrastructure related to product data would be the most important tool to adhere to the new demands that the ESPR brings. For other companies in the B2B-environment, with less complex products or a smaller line of offering, the gathering of information and then passing it forward in the value system could be harder and more important issues to solve to still remain as a reliable supplier. (Less)
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author
Gustafsson, Martin LU and Talts, Ludvig LU
supervisor
organization
course
MIOM05 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Digital Product Passport (DPP), The European Green Deal, sustainability, value system, business-to-business relationships, customer behaviour. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), circular economy.
other publication id
25/5301
language
English
id
9191210
date added to LUP
2025-06-17 16:32:18
date last changed
2025-06-17 16:32:18
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  abstract     = {{Background: The world is facing immense challenges regarding resource depletion, sustainable development and climate change. The European Union has made a commitment to being the first climate neutral continent with the initiative The European Green Deal. One of the regulations in the Green deal is the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. A key component is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which will require products to include detailed sustainability data. The ESPR demands are targeted toward B2C-companies, but may also impact B2B-companies upstream the value system. 
Purpose: Describe and analyze the introduction and consequences of the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR) on business- to-business companies as well as the effects upon the value system, within which they operate.
Method: A descriptive and exploratory strategy is used together with an abductive and iterative approach, to perform a case study on Tetra Pak with semi structured interviews and a literature review, to iteratively gather both primary and secondary qualitative data.


Conclusion: The introduction of ESPR puts demands on B2B-companies to be reliable suppliers for the companies needing to adhere to ecodesign principles and construct DPPs. B2B-companies that are highly product driven with big firm complexity have the highest ESPR demands on the handling of product data. Therefore a firm wide infrastructure related to product data would be the most important tool to adhere to the new demands that the ESPR brings. For other companies in the B2B-environment, with less complex products or a smaller line of offering, the gathering of information and then passing it forward in the value system could be harder and more important issues to solve to still remain as a reliable supplier.}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{When regulatory sustainability demands hit the value system: impacts of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation on business-to-business companies}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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