{"title":"What being an owner can also mean: A socio-anthropological study on the development of a forgotten relationship to objects","authors":"Isabelle Dabadie, P. Robert-Demontrond","doi":"10.1177/20515707211014436","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In a context of ecological crisis, new economic models have developed based on the replacement of ownership by access. While they have been studied at length, the very idea of ownership, which is supposed to be abandoned in this process, has rarely been questioned. This is the aim of our research, which investigates the meanings of the concept of ownership for consumers. A socio-anthropological investigation and an ethnographic study on various sharing systems (for houses, boats and clothes) reveals the development of a relationship to ownership, which differs from the one that prevails in the society. In this paradigm, which questions possessive individualism, the owner appears as the ‘custodian’ of his possessions. The identification of his expectations opens managerial and societal perspectives to build the offers that will enable him to fulfil this role.","PeriodicalId":45672,"journal":{"name":"Recherche et Applications en Marketing-English Edition","volume":"37 1","pages":"7 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20515707211014436","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Recherche et Applications en Marketing-English Edition","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20515707211014436","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In a context of ecological crisis, new economic models have developed based on the replacement of ownership by access. While they have been studied at length, the very idea of ownership, which is supposed to be abandoned in this process, has rarely been questioned. This is the aim of our research, which investigates the meanings of the concept of ownership for consumers. A socio-anthropological investigation and an ethnographic study on various sharing systems (for houses, boats and clothes) reveals the development of a relationship to ownership, which differs from the one that prevails in the society. In this paradigm, which questions possessive individualism, the owner appears as the ‘custodian’ of his possessions. The identification of his expectations opens managerial and societal perspectives to build the offers that will enable him to fulfil this role.
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Recherche et Applications en Marketing (English edition) is a peer reviewed academic international journal publishing original research in the field of marketing in French and translated into English. It is a main reference for the development and dissemination of new concepts and new methods in marketing. The journal publishes articles covering any aspect of marketing, including consumer behaviour, communication, retailing, CRM, new product development and more. The journal publishes research articles, research notes, critical state of the art papers, and also articles offering perspectives from other disciplines which might be applied to marketing. Recherche et Applications en Marketing is an official journal of the AFM (French Marketing Association - Association Française du marketing). It is the leading French research journal in the field of marketing which has been published since 1986, and in both English and French since 2007.