The customer acceptance of refurbished smartphones

This research aims to uncover the factors influencing the customer acceptance of refurbished products. To gain insight in these factors, a quantitative study (N = 250) on the response of customers to the proposition of refurbished smartphones was conducted in cooperation with Fairphone. Fairphone is a social enterprise start-up, aiming to open...

From Smartphone to Futurephone: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Different Circular Economy Scenarios of a Smartphone Using LCA

The lack of literature on using life cycle assessment (LCA) for increasing environmental performance raises the need for concepts or eco-design tools to be combined with LCA to answer the question of how to strategize and take actions based on LCA results. This study intends to address this need by using mobile phones as a case study and...