Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime.
Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately designing products to limit their life span to encourage replacement. It is a common business strategy for consumer goods, with far-reaching ecological and social consequences. Here, we examine the definition, causes and consequences of planned ob...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 271 - 294 |
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Springer Nature
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