When things are no longer possessions: does dispossession still take place in a context of collaborative consumption?

Eva Cerio ()
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Eva Cerio: IAE Angers - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers - UA - Université d'Angers, GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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Abstract: Based on the social life of things theory and a qualitative study conducted among 28 participants, we identify four disposition routes that occur when a consumer wants to give or sell his possessions on second-hand marketplaces (identity-based, mechanical, insecure, and opportunistic), that depends on psychological, material and environmental criteria. We highlight the fact that disposition is now becoming a rationalized and routine process rather than a dispossession one, in which individuals become distributors and opportunists.

Keywords: Second-hand economy; disposition; possession; gift-giving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-08
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Published in Fifty Years of Consumer Research, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Jun 2023, Reims, France

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