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Piscicelli, L., Cooper, T. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8623-2918 and Fisher, T. ORCID: 0000-0003-2565-8805,
2015.
Understanding consumer influences on product lifetimes: the
Individual-Practice Framework.
In: T. Cooper ORCID: 0000-0001-8623-2918, N. Braithwaite ORCID: 0000-0001-6424-8919, M. Moreno and G. Salvia, eds.,
Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) Conference proceedings, [Nottingham Trent University], Nottingham, 17-19 June 2015.
Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University: CADBE, pp. 277-282.
ISBN 9780957600997
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Abstract
In the field of sustainability, understanding consumer influences on product lifetimes is deemed essential to reduce the environmental impact of consumption. The aim of the research project which informs this paper was to investigate different ways of thinking about how consumers’ values may contribute to the acceptance, adoption and diffusion of collaborative consumption – an economic model based on sharing, lending, swapping, gifting, bartering, or renting products and services enabled by network technologies and peer communities (cf. Botsman and Rogers, 2011). By making it possible to obtain use of goods without owning them, these alternative patterns of consumption have some potential to prevent new purchases, intensify product usage and promote reuse of possessions that are no longer wanted, thus contributing to longer product lifetimes.
The relationship between values and the participation in collaborative consumption was explored through mixed methods research drawing from two different, if not contrasting, theoretical perspectives to understand consumer behaviour: social psychology and social practice theory. Drawing on their possible complementarity, the investigation was structured in two subsequent and interactive phases: a quantitative data collection and analysis, followed by a qualitative strand of research. The initial quantitative study measured individual values through use of Schwartz's PVQ-R3 tool. Results were followed up through semi-structured interviews facilitated by a series of visual prompts. This paper presents the resulting Individual-Practice Framework, which uniquely combines insights from social psychology and social practice theory to examine and explain the interrelation between the individual, his/her personal values, and specific combinations of the ‘material’, ‘meaning’ and ‘competence’ elements that sustain social practices.
| Item Type: | Chapter in book |
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| Creators: | Piscicelli, L., Cooper, T. and Fisher, T. |
| Publisher: | Nottingham Trent University: CADBE |
| Place of Publication: | Nottingham |
| Date: | 2015 |
| ISBN: | 9780957600997 |
| Rights: | [© Nottingham Trent University 2015]., cc Proceedings are under a Creative Common License Number CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment Schools > School of Art and Design |
| Record created by: | Jill Tomkinson |
| Date Added: | 08 Apr 2016 10:53 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 14:25 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27466 |
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