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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25863| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime |
| Authors: | Bieser, Jan C.T. Blumer, Yann Burkhalter, Linda Itten, René Jobin, Marilou Hilty, Lorenz M. |
| et. al: | Yes |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074 10.21256/zhaw-25863 |
| Published in: | Cleaner and Responsible Consumption |
| Volume(Issue): | 7 |
| Issue: | 100074 |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2666-7843 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Smartphone; Lifecycle; Lifetime extension; Consumer intervention; Environmental impact |
| Subject (DDC): | 004: Computer science 333: Economics of land and resources |
| Abstract: | A promising strategy to reduce smartphones' environmental footprint is to increase their service lifetime, thereby reducing the demand for resource-intensive production of new devices. Most of the existing literature focuses on production-oriented measures, such as improving repairability, but what remains missing is a systematic overview of consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones' service lifetime. In this study, we applied the consumer intervention mapping approach by systematically identifying consumer decision situations along the smartphone life cycle and interventions that encourage consumers to make smartphone lifetime-extending decisions. We identify two main mechanisms to achieve lifetime extension: retention by increasing the time during which a user keeps a device, and recirculation by passing on a device to an additional user. Altogether, we identified 26 different types of interventions to induce consumers to make smartphone lifetime-extending decisions and structure these according to consumer-influence techniques, e.g., informing consumers about retention/recirculation options and environmental impacts caused throughout device life cycles, persuading consumers by creating emotional attachment, nudging consumers through product labels for secondhand devices, simplifying execution of lifetime-extending decision options through take-back programs, and incentivizing lifetime-extension through buy-back programs. These interventions' success in achieving lifetime extensions and reducing environmental impacts in practice depends on the degree to which they actually extend smartphones' service lifetime and reduce production of new devices (displacement rate), induction and re-spending effects associated with the interventions, and the interventions’ implementation feasibility, which conflicts of interest in the smartphone ecosystem often challenge. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25863 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | Lebensdauerverlängerung für Mobilgeräte |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Bieser, J. C. T., Blumer, Y., Burkhalter, L., Itten, R., Jobin, M., & Hilty, L. M. (2022). Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 7(100074). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074
Bieser, J.C.T. et al. (2022) ‘Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime’, Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 7(100074). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074.
J. C. T. Bieser, Y. Blumer, L. Burkhalter, R. Itten, M. Jobin, and L. M. Hilty, “Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime,” Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, vol. 7, no. 100074, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074.
BIESER, Jan C.T., Yann BLUMER, Linda BURKHALTER, René ITTEN, Marilou JOBIN und Lorenz M. HILTY, 2022. Consumer-oriented interventions to extend smartphones’ service lifetime. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption. 2022. Bd. 7, Nr. 100074. DOI 10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074
Bieser, Jan C.T., Yann Blumer, Linda Burkhalter, René Itten, Marilou Jobin, and Lorenz M. Hilty. 2022. “Consumer-Oriented Interventions to Extend Smartphones’ Service Lifetime.” Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 7 (100074). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074.
Bieser, Jan C. T., et al. “Consumer-Oriented Interventions to Extend Smartphones’ Service Lifetime.” Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, vol. 7, no. 100074, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2022.100074.
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