Design for divestment in a circular economy: Stimulating voluntary return of smartphones through design

For the transition toward a circular economy, it is essential that products are returned for reuse, refurbishing or recycling. In order to address the lack of literature on the topic from a user perspective, this paper explores how users can be stimulated to return used smartphones. Taking a Research through Design approach, we developed a...

Discovering the drivers for corporate investments or divestments in the European downstream oil sector: An application of Transaction Cost Economics and of Q methodology research

The European downstream oil sector has seen drastic changes over the past years and particularly after 2008 and the outbreak of the financial crisis. The developments which have taken place have put the sector under serious pressure, which was mainly felt by the European refining industry. In a nutshell, the industry has been greatly affected by...