The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field

Sustainability

Rafael Laurenti¹  Filippo Corsini²  Franziska Meinherz³  FrancescoPaolo Appio⁴  Luca Mora⁵ 

[1] ITM School of Industrial Engineering and Management, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden;Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy;Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Station 2, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;Research Center, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire, 92916 Paris La Défense,France;The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh EH14 1DJ, UK;

关键词: sustainability;    sustainable consumption;    bibliometric analysis;    practice theory;    circular economy;    sharing economy;    smart city;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su11020341

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The application of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies is increasingly advocated based on the premise that this allows to analyse consumption as a social phenomenon. Consequently, the applications of social practice theories to this field are expanding geometrically and to date, little retrospective work on this evolution has been made. We conduct a bibliometric analysis of applications of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies. Our results show a temporal succession of research trends: ‘consumer identity’ dominated the field between 2009 and 2012, ‘business and governance’ between 2012 and 2014, ‘sustainable consumption and production’ between 2013 and 2014, ‘urban living and policy’ between 2014 and 2015 and ‘household energy’ from 2015 until the present. We see a high potential of future applications of practice theories in the fields of the sharing and circular economy, as well as in research on smart cities. We provide new insights into the evolution and future trends of applications of social practice theory to domains that are relevant for research on sustainability and consumer studies.

【 授权许可】

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