Sustainable Product-Service Systems Between Strategic Design and Transition Studies /

• Main Author: Ceschin, Fabrizio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Management.; Industrial management.; Design.; Sustainable development.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Sustainable Development.; Design, general.; Business Strategy/Leadership.

This book investigates the potential contribution that a strategic design approach can make to stimulating and supporting the societal embedding of sustainable PSSs (product-service systems). A new strategic design role thus emerges; a role in which the ideation and development of sustainable PSS co...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Transition towards sustainability: the need of radical innovations
• 2 Product-Service System innovation: a promising approach to sustainability
• 3 Introducing and scaling up sustainable Product-Service Systems: insights from transition studies
• 4 Towards a new way of designing and managing the societal embedding of sustainable Product-Service System
• 5 Where do we go from here?.