Barriers to product longevity: A review of business, product development and user perspectives

Jensen, Peter Byrial; Laursen, Linda Nhu; Haase, Louise Møller

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127951

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“…Long lasting products may be defined as "Products that are durable and considered useful and desirable by their users for a long period of time, and at the same time provide a viable business" (Jensen, P. et al, 2021). Other scholars also define the main aspect of prolonging any design's longevity to be a reduction of its environmental impact and thereby improving its sustainable qualities (Bakker et al 2019, Stahel 2010.…”

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Designing Long-Lasting Products: Barriers for Design Consultancies

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Past research shows there are significant barriers for creating long lasting products. In this paper we examine, the distinct collaborative barriers design consultancies face when striving to design long-lasting products for client firms. Data is collected through case studies (four months of observations and interviews) from three projects. Through the study we find indications, that the value chain intricacies, provide distinct interfirm barriers for creating long lasting products. These barriers include vision clashes, misalignment in the aspired manufacturing quality and price position.

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“…Firstly, in order to understand the approaches to product longevity, we must investigate the potential barriers that can hinder the production of long-lasting products. In line with Jensen et al [3], we adopt a framework suggesting that there are three main stakeholders influencing the longevity of products. The first is the consumers, through purchase decisions and use.…”

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“…Observing lead-users Following performance-Lead users Then, to reveal further patterns among the identified approaches, we shifted our coding techniques. With an offset from a review of the literature on barriers to product longevity [3], which has rigorously explored a wide variety of areas in the product longevity literature, the second part of our data coding was based on how practitioners handled and recognised the 14 barriers to product longevity described in the literature (see Figure 3).…”

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“…However, the longevity of many consumer product categories is decreasing [2], and the average lifetimes of many product categories are decreasing. Previous findings have revealed that this decrease is likely due to a large number of barriers that hinder both businesses and consumers in maintaining or increasing product longevity [3]. Some companies have succeeded in branding themselves as able to produce long-lasting products and positioning themselves as producers of 'high-quality products' [4], mainly due to their continually overcoming such barriers.…”

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“…Some companies have succeeded in branding themselves as able to produce long-lasting products and positioning themselves as producers of 'high-quality products' [4], mainly due to their continually overcoming such barriers. We define longlasting products as 'products that are durable and considered to be useful and desirable by users for a long period of time, while simultaneously providing a viable business' [3].…”

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Barriers to product longevity: A review of business, product development and user perspectives

Cited by 40 publications

References 107 publications

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Designing Long-Lasting Products: Barriers for Design Consultancies

A Practical Approach to Companies’ Transformation toward Product Longevity: A Best-Case Study

Analyzing the sustainable international competitiveness factors of SMEs by Fuzzy Delphi and Neutrosophic DEMATEL

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