Collaborative consumption : towards a resource-saving consumption culture

By Kristin Leismann, Martina Schmitt, H. Rohn, C. Baedeker. 2013

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Resource efficiency in production and technological innovations are inadequate for considerably reducing the current use of natural resources. Both social innovations and a complementary and equally valued strategy of sustainable consumption are required: goods must be used longer, and services that support collaborative consumption (CC) patterns must be extended. “Using rather than owning” strategies, such as product sharing, have the potential to conserve resources. Based on the results of different German studies, this article highlights the resource-saving potentials of CC patterns and recommendations proposed for policies and further research questions. The purpose of this paper is to show that a general resource-saving potential can be realized by “use rather than own” schemes, depending on the application field and the framework for implementation. CC is suitable for making a positive contribution to achieving the Factor 10 target by playing an important role in changing consumer patterns.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland (2014, background): “Collaborative consumption is a rising trend with dematerialisation potentials in different consumption components [72].”
Sufficiency transitions: A review of consumption changes for environmental sustainability (2021, background): “In this vein, Leismann et al. (2013) have argued that sharing practices should be evaluated on a caseby-case basis rather than generalizing the sustainability of sharing.”
Contagious Effects of Customer Misbehavior in Access-Based Services (2016, background): “This car was dirrrrty and clearly had not been cleaned for several weeks (we are talking old crusty dirt here not new dirt from just one person).”
Understanding Collaborative Consumption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior with Value-Based Personal Norms (2017, unknown): “…common, or idle resources in consumer or peer networks—has been proposed as an alternative way of consumption by several researchers (e.g., Botsman and Rogers 2011; Heinrichs 2013; Leismann et al. 2013; Prothero et al. 2011) and practitioners (e.g., World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2013).”
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “They are important, nonetheless, as they offer alternatives to traditional consumptive practices and a growth economy (34, 35).”
Upsides and downsides of the sharing economy: Collaborative consumption business models' stakeholder value impacts and their relationship to context (2017, background): “Some herald these new CC business models as vital innovations and emancipators of people and resources (e.g., Botsman and Rogers, 2011; Kostakis and Bauwens, 2014; Sundararajan, 2013) and as contributors to environmental sustainability (e.g., Cohen and Kietzmann, 2014; Leismann et al., 2013).”
Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world (2016, background): “The benefits of this apparent re-engineering is said to include efficiency gains, the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and the fostering of greater social capital (Belk, 2007; Botsman & Rogers, 2010; Leismann et al., 2013).”
The eruption of Airbnb in tourist cities: Comparing spatial patterns of hotels and peer-to-peer accommodation in Barcelona (2016, background): “With this system, consumers benefit from lower costs for using goods and services at the same time as they avoid wasting resources (Leismann et al., 2013).”