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Planned Obsolescence

Nature, 2021
Marissa Lingen
exaly   +2 more sources

Creative Destruction and Destructive Creations: Environmental Ethics and Planned Obsolescence

Journal of Business Ethics, 2009
planned obsolescence, durable goods, environment, product development,
Joseph Guiltinan
exaly   +2 more sources

Post Planned Obsolescence

2008 9th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, 2008
How to extend product life circle through innovative design is the responsibility of designer. Through analyzing the reasonable content in ?Planned Obsolescence? and the series design of Ricoh R digital camera, the author bring forward to the product series design model of ?post planned obsolescence?.
null Wei Sun, null Ping Sun
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Consumer Responses to Planned Obsolescence

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2019
Abstract Companies use planned obsolescence as a central marketing strategy to motivate their customers to (re)buy new and upcoming products. These companies try to increase their revenue and profit by reducing the value of a product's older version.
Philipp Klaus, Aikaterini Manthiou, Volker G Kuppelwieser   +2 more
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PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE AS A SIGNAL OF QUALITY

International Economic Journal, 2001
This paper provides a new rationale for planned obsolescence based on imperfect information about the quality of durable goods. The source of the inefficient choice of durability lies in the fact that the frequency of repeat purchases and the future expected profit that can monitor the quality of the good is inversely related to the durability of the ...
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Planned Obsolescence and Social Welfare*

The Journal of Business, 2006
Durable‐goods marketing has an obsolescence effect on older models. I consider two cases: commitment (where the decision on how much to invest in marketing is made in the first period) and noncommitment (where the decision is made in the second period).
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Planned obsolescence and monopoly undersupply

Information Economics and Policy, 2011
Abstract This paper examines the welfare implications of planned obsolescence in situations where the traditional monopoly undersupply exists. We find that the monopolist’s introduction of incompatibility between successive generations of products alleviates the monopoly undersupply problem and may therefore generate higher social welfare than ...
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Competitive Planned Obsolescence

2003
This paper provides a model of planned obsolescence in a competitive market. A feature of the model is that there are configurations where a firm cannot survive in the competitive market unless its product exhibits planned and known obsolescence. This form of obsolescence is complementary to that of existing models and arises from the ability of ...
Grout, PA, Park, I-U
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Planning for Obsolescence

LIMN
The emergence of China’s circular economy.
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Surplus and Obsolescence Planning

2015
The goal of surplus and obsolescence planning is to identify inventory within the supply network—i.e. the BOD—which exceeds the projected demand and therefore only consumes warehouse space. In order to identify the surplus and remove it from the concerned warehouses, first the total surplus within the supply network is determined. This is done based on
Jörg Thomas Dickersbach, Michael F. Passon   +1 more
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