Sustainable Product-Service Systems

Ceschin, Fabrizio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03795-0

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“…In this study a new sharing service is presented -a Library of Things, which is a product service system [PSS] (UNEP 2002;Ceschin 2014). This offer should have the potential to close the gap described above, because it avoids many disadvantages of existing sharing offers, and it therefore represents a solution for a systemic problem (Manzini et al, 2001;Manzini &Vezzoli, 2003).…”

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Libraries of Things as a new form of sharing. Pushing the Sharing Economy

Ameli

2017

The Design Journal

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Abstract:Although the willingness to share is huge, sharing is rarely applied in everyday life, because many current Sharing Economy offers are not practicable. This paper asks what contributions an innovative Sharing Service -a library not simply lending books but a wider range of items -can make to close the gap between willingness to share and practice. Most of these innovative libraries were founded in the last few years, but many still fail to overcome the identified gap. As global environmental problems demand a change of consumer behaviour to enable human actions within planetary boundaries, bridging the gap could have a huge impact. Libraries of Things could reduce the average resource and energy consumption of users, maintaining quality of life. This paper analyses existing Libraries of Things and Tool Libraries. The outcome is assessed against empirically proven user expectations to detect the discrepancies between supply and demand of current offers commonly available.

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Libraries of Things as a new form of sharing. Pushing the Sharing Economy

Ameli

2017

The Design Journal

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“…However, the implementation of PSS offerings requires companies to redesign their business processes and value chains as well as acquire different competences, thus creating a number of obstacles for companies to overcome [6,7]. Key PSS implementation barriers are related to organisational mindset, customer acceptance and a lack of supportive regulations, and affect in particular business-to-customers (B2C) PSS [8][9][10]. In this paper, authors investigate Distributed Manufacturing (DM) as a promising production model which can be applied to PSS to address some of its implementation barriers.…”

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Applying Distributed Manufacturing to Product-Service System Design: A Set of Near-Future Scenarios and a Design Tool

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Product-Service Systems (PSS), if properly designed and implemented, represent a promising approach to sustainability. However, there is a number of organisational, cultural and regulatory barriers that hinder the widespread PSS implementation. In this paper, the authors investigated Distributed Manufacturing (DM) as a promising production model which can be applied to PSS to address some of its implementation barriers and improve its sustainability. To that end, existing PSS implementation barriers were collected and coupled with systematically analysed favourable DM features to describe a set of PSS+DM near-future scenarios, addressing the complete PSS lifecycle. Scenarios were then integrated into the PSS+DM Design Tool aiming to support idea generation for PSS implementation. The tool was tested with students, PSS and/or DM experts, manufacturing companies and design practitioners through two rounds of workshops in order to evaluate its completeness, effectiveness and usability and define recommendations for improvements. Based on the results, the improved final version of the PSS+DM Design Tool was developed, presenting the potential to support idea generation to improve sustainable PSS implementation through integrating DM features in each PSS lifecycle stage.

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“…In fact, Mylan (2014) largely focused on production changes, although consumption patterns also present a significant challenge, which consists of not only evaluating an SPSS but also understanding the contextual conditions in which it is introduced and exploring service innovation and practical attributes (Gallouj and Savona, 2008;Vezzoli et al, 2015). Ceschin (2014) indicated that a lack of understanding continues to permeate innovation activities and sustainable advantage and that these attributes can affect the transition of service innovation. Xing et al (2013) presented a conceptual model and emphasized value co-production and collaborative advantage, indicating that the key to product service innovation for strong sustainability is the meaningful and complementary cooperation of all stakeholders, which necessitates linking with SPSS.…”

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Service innovation in sustainable product service systems: Improving performance under linguistic preferences

Tseng

Chiu

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International Journal of Production Economics

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Sustainable product service systems enable firms that are operating under resource limitations to deliver the best possible outcomes in terms of social well-being and economic growth. However, prior studies have not yet investigated the function of service innovation in sustainable product service systems or analyzed the convergence of importance and performance weighting in maximizing resource utilization in the supply chain. Moreover, prior studies have not yet integrated and proposed a complex interrelationship-driven hierarchical model including qualitative preferences or identifying weighting under linguistic preferences. This study applied the fuzzy Delphi method, fuzzy importance performance analysis and an analytical network process to analyze an interrelationship-driven hierarchical model of service innovation in sustainable product service systems. Hence, this study provides a set of attributes and a hybrid method to assess the model as well as linguistic preferences to weight the importance and performance measures. The results present four features that are included in the model: sustainable consumption, collaborative advantage, innovation activities and service innovation capabilities. Therefore, when building sustainable product service systems, firms should maintain operations and aim for business synergy in self-generated innovative products/services along with high-quality products/services, collaboration innovation and product and service innovations. Managerial and theoretical implications are discussed.

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Sustainable Product-Service Systems

Cited by 38 publications

References 26 publications

Libraries of Things as a new form of sharing. Pushing the Sharing Economy

Libraries of Things as a new form of sharing. Pushing the Sharing Economy

Applying Distributed Manufacturing to Product-Service System Design: A Set of Near-Future Scenarios and a Design Tool

Service innovation in sustainable product service systems: Improving performance under linguistic preferences

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