Arman, Saleh Md. and Mark-Herbert, Cecilia
(2021).
Re-Commerce to Ensure Circular Economy from Consumer Perspective.
Sustainability. 13
, 10242
[Research article]
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Abstract
Responsible consumption practice is crucial to minimizing waste as part of sustainable development (SDG 12). This can be achieved by extending product life in a cradle-to-cradle system as part of a circular economy. However, are consumers willing to extend product life by reusing materials? The phenomenon of re-commerce, where consumers sell products to each other (C2C), takes place in physical as well as web-based markets. This project focuses on enabling factors for re-commerce practices on Facebook among consumers in Bangladesh. A review of existing literature provided grounds for an empirical focus group study of Bangladeshi consumers. Using a social practice theory perspective in a thematic analysis shows that enabling factors in terms of technical competence, context-bound conditions influencing meanings such as socially accepted procedures, and practical practices relating to materials such as payment forms and logistics support, all serve as enabling or hindering factors. The study contributes to the understanding of conditions for re-commerce practices as part of a circular economy system where consumers are encouraged to engage in responsible consumption by extending product life cycles.
Authors/Creators: | Arman, Saleh Md. and Mark-Herbert, Cecilia | ||||||
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Title: | Re-Commerce to Ensure Circular Economy from Consumer Perspective | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Sustainability | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2021 | ||||||
Volume: | 13 | ||||||
Article number: | 10242 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||
Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
ISSN: | 2071-1050 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (Peace and Conflict Research and Studies on Sustainable Society) | ||||||
Keywords: | Facebook, regenerative economy, social practice theory, sustainable development, thematic analysis | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113986 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-113986 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 25871 | ||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Economics | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 19 Oct 2021 08:25 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2021 08:31 |
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