scholarly journals Optimal Consumer Electronics Product Take-Back Time with Consideration of Consumer Value

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Tse Fang ◽  
Hsin Rau
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5552
Author(s):  
Mikkel Nøjgaard ◽  
Cristiano Smaniotto ◽  
Søren Askegaard ◽  
Ciprian Cimpan ◽  
Dmitry Zhilyaev ◽  
...  

Consumers across the globe tend to store their small electronic devices when they reach their end of life instead of disposing of them. This is a problem because if end-of-life devices are not recovered from consumers’ homes, the devices cannot be re-used or recycled, leading to increased production. We study what motivates consumers to store their end-of-life devices by looking at how storage creates consumer value. Applying a practice-based understanding of value, we find that storage is a social practice that generates value by protecting consumers from four different kinds of risk: practical risks, existential risks, environmental risks, and moral risks. Storage gives consumers a sense of security in their everyday lives and thus generates what we call ‘security value’. This notion implies that even though end-of-life devices sit idle in consumers’ homes, their value generating capacity remains active. The findings have implications for the role of consumers in reverse logistics strategies for sustainable systems.


2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Robert T. London
Keyword(s):  

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Patrick Godefroid ◽  
Tobias Keber ◽  
Boris A. Kühnle ◽  
Oliver Zöllner

Smart-TVs mit immer eindrucksvolleren Fähigkeiten sind der Trend im Bereich der Consumer Electronics. Die intelligenten Geräte sind nicht nur eine technische Neuerung, sondern sie stellen traditionelle Konzepte in Wirtschaft, Recht, Politik und Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Die bisweilen auch als „Hybrid-TV“ bezeichneten Gerate stehen für eine neue Dimension der Konvergenz und rücken als Forschungsgegenstand in den Fokus ganz unterschiedlicher medienwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen. Technisch muss man sich zunächst einmal klarmachen, wie die Verschmelzung von Fernseh- und Online- Welt tatsächlich funktioniert und welche Begrifflichkeiten die neue Fernsehwelt hervorgebracht hat. In wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht stellt sich dann unter anderem die Frage, wie weit Charakteristika der Internet-Ökonomie bei einem Verknüpfen von Internet und Fernsehen Implikationen für die Erlös- und Refinanzierungsmodelle des TV haben. Ob die noch immer rundfunkzentrierten Vorgaben des Medienrechts die mit Smart-TV einhergehenden Fragen tatsachlich noch sachgerecht adressieren, ist fraglich, was einen Blick auf die medienpolitische Entwicklung erforderlich macht. Schließlich besteht Erörterungsbedarf dahingehend, wie sich der stärkere Grad der Individualisierung von Inhalten und die damit verbundene Zersplitterung der Rezeptionswirkung auf die Gesellschaft auswirken.


Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 880-885
Author(s):  
K.P. Bhavatharini ◽  
Ms Dr. Anita Albert

Manju Kapur exposes the disparity and how modernity plays a major role in our society and also the hollowness modern life through her novel Custody. The present paper deals with the key aspects of custody, like extra marital affair, exploration of children and the law system of India. Manju Kapur has published five novels and all her novels dealt with postmodern era, which became sensational in the literary world. She talks about the life of people in Metropolitan cities and how it changes the attitude of theirs and makes them to be victims of modernity through her novel Custody. She manages to disclose the atmosphere which revolves around the family and how it destroys their peace. Here the author portrays how her female protagonist goes to an extent to fulfill her need even breaking her marital relationship with her husband and lack of concern with her children. She portrays the unimaginable incident of broken marriage and illustrates how it causes their children to yearning for their custody from their parents. The children are mentally affected because of the conflict between their egoistic parents to take back their custody only to win the battle not having the real concern over the future of their children. The author manages to create an excellent atmosphere that reveals the various disasters roaming around the family. The future of the children is also hazard. This novel proves that Manju Kapur is a great curator of the modern Indian family.


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