Collaborative Consumption: Towards a Resource-Saving Consumption Culture

Leismann, Kristin; Schmitt, Martina; Rohn, Holger; Baedeker, Carolin

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“…Collaborative consumption is a rising trend with dematerialisation potentials in different consumption components [72]. However, if sharing consumer goods largely increases, rebound effects should actively be avoided in terms of both the overall amount of different products in use and their potential overall energy consumption and especially the potentially increasing car use for providing and acquiring products and services.…”

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Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland

2014

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Abstract:The paper suggests a sustainable material footprint of eight tons, per person, in a year as a resource cap target for household consumption in Finland. This means an 80% (factor 5) reduction from the present Finnish average. The material footprint is used as a synonym to the Total Material Requirement (TMR) calculated for products and activities. The paper suggests how to allocate the sustainable material footprint to different consumption components on the basis of earlier household studies, as well as other studies, on the material intensity of products, services, and infrastructures. It analyzes requirements, opportunities, and challenges for future developments in technology and lifestyle, also taking into account that future lifestyles are supposed to show a high degree of diversity. The targets and approaches are discussed for the consumption components of nutrition, housing, household goods, mobility, leisure activities, and other purposes. The paper states that a sustainable level of natural resource use by households is achievable and it can be roughly allocated to different consumption components in order to illustrate the need for a change in lifestyles. While the absolute material footprint of all the consumption components will have to decrease, the relative share of nutrition, the most basic human OPEN ACCESSResources 2014, 3 489 need, in the total material footprint is expected to rise, whereas much smaller shares than at present are proposed for housing and especially mobility. For reducing material resource use to the sustainable level suggested, both social innovations, and technological developments are required.

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Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland

2014

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“…Product service systems and for-profit peer-to-peer services like Uber, TaskRabbit and Airbnb have been argued as reshaping production and service delivery, thus creating a form of re-engineered consumption Sundararajan, : no page . The benefits of this apparent re-engineering is said to include efficiency gains, the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and the fostering of greater social capital (Belk, 2007;Botsman & Rogers, 2010;Leismann et al, 2013). In short, the SE is proposed as no less than a new model of consumption…in which consumers embrace services that enable them to access products on demand rather than owning them, thus becoming users World Economic Forum, : .…”

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Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Hobson

Lynch

2016

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Programmes and policies for a Circular Economy (CE) are fast becoming key to regional and international plans for creating sustainable futures. Framed as a technologically driven and economically profitable vision of continued growth in a resource-scarce world, the CE has of late been taken up by the European Commission and global business leaders alike. However, within CE debates and documentation, little is said about the social and political implications of such transformative agendas. That is, whilst CE proponents claim their agenda is 'radical', this paper outlines its inability to address many deeply embedded challenges around issues of consumption and the consumer, echoing as it does the problematic (and arguably failed) agendas of sustainable consumption / lifestyles. Using the Sharing Economy as an example, we argue here that the ontological and sociological assumptions of the CE must be open to more 'radical' critique and reconsideration if this agenda is to deliver the profound transformations that its advocates claim are within our collective reach.

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“…In collaborative consumption, access to a good rather than ownership is of relevance (Belk, 2014;Botsman and Rogers, 2010;Leismann et al, 2013). Consumers share goods via car sharing companies (Bardhi and Eckhardt, 2012), toy lending libraries (Ozanne and Ozanne, 2011), and many other services, such as tool lending workshops and community gardens, owning neither the cars nor the toys or tools or jointly grown vegetables, but instead, having access to them.…”

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Power versus trust – what matters more in collaborative consumption?

Hofmann¹,

Hartl

Penz

2017

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For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract Purpose -Collaborative consumption, such as car sharing, specifically implicates customer-to-customer interaction, which must be regulated by service providers (companies, peers and self-regulating communities), comprising different challenges for business organizations. While in conventional business relations, consumers are protected from undesirable customer behavior by laws, regulations (power) in the context of collaborative consumption are rare, so that trust becomes more relevant. It is the purpose of the study to investigate possible mechanisms to prevent undesirable customers in collaborative consumption. Design/methodology/approach -In between subject designs, samples of 186 and 328 consumers filled in experimental online questionnaires with vignettes. Analyses were made of differences among car sharing companies, private persons and car sharing communities in terms of the power of providers, trust in providers and trust in other users of the shared goods, undesirable customer behavior and consumer-provider relations. *Related content and download information correct at time of download.Findings -Companies, private persons and self-regulating communities differ in terms of perceived power and trust. Participants specifically perceive mainly coercive power with the car sharing company, but with the private person and the community, reason-based trust in other users is perceived as prevalent. Nevertheless, undesirable customer behavior varies only marginally over the models. Originality/value -The present study is the first to investigate measures to prevent undesirable customer behavior over different collaborative consumption models. This enables appropriate identification of market segments and tailoring of services. The study identifies opportunities for companies in contrast to private persons and self-regulating communities and, in doing so, provides important stimulation for marketing strategy and theory development.

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Collaborative Consumption: Towards a Resource-Saving Consumption Culture

Cited by 195 publications

References 21 publications

Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland

Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland

Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world

Power versus trust – what matters more in collaborative consumption?

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