Three paths to disposition: The movement of meaningful possessions to strangers

By J. Lastovicka, Karen V. Fernandez. 2005

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Subfields: Marketing, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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The consumption and disposition behaviour of voluntary simplifiers (2010, background): “…of people who are living with or had died from AIDS (Kates, 2001), the disposition of meaningful possessions to strangers in garage sales and online auctions (Lastovicka and Fernandez, 2005), and the role of special possessions and their disposition by older consumers (Price et al., 2000).”
Access-Based Services as Substitutes for Material Possessions: The Role of Psychological Ownership (2020, background): “Our findings thus enhance understanding of the dispossession of material goods (Albinsson and Perera 2009; Lastovicka and Fernandez 2005), with specific insights for sharing economy research.”
Pride in contemporary sport consumption: a marketing perspective (2010, background): “Rooted in a common identity—both being part of the same fan subculture—such a shared self provides some assurance that accurate meaning is communicated from the giver to the receiver ( Lastovicka and Fernandez 2005 ).”
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “(2008) argue that this should be understood as a valuable coping mechanism that has the effect of ‘bracketing out’ illness in order to minimise its impact on personal identity.”
The Compensatory Consumer Behavior Model: How self-discrepancies drive consumer behavior (2017, unknown): “One way to achieve this goal is to dispose of possessions that are associated with the undesired self (Lastovicka & Fernandez, 2005).”
Mapping symbolic (anti-) consumption (2009, background): “1) builds on frameworks from earlier research by integrating Ligas and Cotte's (1999, p. 611) modeling of the brand negotiation process as an interaction between three environments (marketing, social and individual) into Banister and Hogg's (2004) congruency framework.”
From Trash To Treasure And Beyond: The Meaning Of Voluntary Disposition (2009, background): “Disposition occurs more readily when the parties involved share a common identity (Lastovicka and Fernandez, 2005).”
The rise of inconspicuous consumption (2015, background): “We know that those within a group often share a common sense of self (Aron, Aron, and Smollan 1992; Belk 1988; Lastovicka and Fernandez 2005) and”
When less is more: Consumer aversion to unused utility (2012, background): “Indeed, consumers who divest themselves of meaningful possessions appear to exhibit aversion to waste by recipient others (Lastovicka & Fernandez, 2005), perhaps accounting for a portion of the 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage in the United States (Mooallem, 2009).”