Sustainable homeservices? Toward household services that enhance ecological, social and economic sustainability

Halme, Minna; Jasch, Christine; Scharp, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.04.007

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“…It requires understanding the user as part of a group or community, from the perspectives of marketing, sociology, psychology and other fields. It requires understanding how S.PSS solutions geared to consumer lifestyles can actually lead to environmental benefits, from the perspective of ecological economics (Halme et al 2004), environmental management and material footprint studies (Lettenmeier et al 2014) and from other fields.…”

Section: Sustainable Product-service System Design Of User Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

New design challenges to widely implement ‘Sustainable Product–Service Systems’

Vezzoli

Ceschin

Diehl

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Section: Sustainable Product-service System Design Of User Acceptancementioning

confidence: 99%

New design challenges to widely implement ‘Sustainable Product–Service Systems’

Vezzoli

Ceschin

Diehl

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

309

238

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“…if the material artefact remains in the ownership of the producer then there is an economic incentive to design and deliver long lasting products in order to postpone maintenance and disposal costs and the costs for manufacturing of new products (Halme et al 2004)). …”

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confidence: 99%

Critical factors for implementing and diffusing sustainable product-Service systems: insights from innovation studies and companies' experiences

Ceschin

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Eco-efficient Product-Service System (PSS) innovations represent a promising approach to sustainability. However the adoption of such business strategies is still very limited because it often involves significant corporate, cultural and regulatory barriers. An important challenge is not only to conceive eco-efficient PSS concepts, but also to understand the contextual conditions that facilitate their societal embedding, and which strategies and development pathways are the most appropriate.The combination of theoretical insights from innovation studies (in particular Strategic Niche Management and Transition Management) and a case studies research (exploring the innovation journeys made by six companies in introducing their eco-efficient PSS innovations in the market) is used to investigate the factors that influence the implementation and diffusion of this kind of innovations. The article provides a structured overview of these factors, grouping them in four clusters: implementation of socio-technical experiments; establishment of a broad network of actors; building up of a shared project vision; creation of room for broad and reflexive learning processes.Based on these results it is argued that a broader and more strategic system approach should be adopted by companies. Companies should focus not only on the PSS solution and its value chain, but also on the contextual conditions that may favour or hinder the societal embedding of the PSS itself. The article concludes by outlining a key area for future research.

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“…Ledoux et al (2005) Present the overview of the set of sustainable development indicators recently adopted by European commission to monitor, assess and revise the sustainability strategy. Halme et al (2004) Argue that there is a need for the concept of sustainable services and suggest a way to assess sustainability. To do this, indicators are proposed.…”

Section: Review Of Sustainability Indicators and Selection Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability in the Turkish retailing industry

Erol

Çakar

Erel

et al. 2008

Sustainable Development

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Retailing is a diverse and dynamic industry offering a wide range of goods and services to consumers.There is also an increasing recognition that this corporate retail power is the driving force for the whole of the supply chain. Due to these facts, it is argued that retailing companies have a huge potential to impact on sustainability performance of national economies. In order to materialize this potential, performance in sustainability should be assessed, and evaluating sustainability performance of an industry requires developing a system of performance evaluation framework. In the context of sustainable development, selecting proper sustainability indicators are one of the most crucial steps to fulfi ll performance evaluations. Since there has been no attempt to develop proper sustainability indicators in retailing industry, this paper aims to select appropriate indicators for future evaluation of industrial sustainability performance for grocery retailing in terms of three sustainability aspects: social, environmental and economic. To this end, (1) a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature was done, (2) and Analytic Hierarchy Process/ Weighted Additive model-based table was developed to rank the indicators for each aspect, (3) the input for the tables was obtained from rapidly growing grocery retailing industry in Turkey by conducting surveys, and (4) using the average values of the tables, sustainability indicators for each aspect were ranked and the most appropriate ones were selected.

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Sustainable homeservices? Toward household services that enhance ecological, social and economic sustainability

Cited by 88 publications

References 14 publications

New design challenges to widely implement ‘Sustainable Product–Service Systems’

New design challenges to widely implement ‘Sustainable Product–Service Systems’

Critical factors for implementing and diffusing sustainable product-Service systems: insights from innovation studies and companies' experiences

Sustainability in the Turkish retailing industry

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