Exploring renting models for clothing items - resource interaction for value creation
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2025

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore renting models for clothing items and their value creation logics with a basis in resource interaction.Design/methodology/approachThe paper relies on a multiple case study of renting models pursued by start-up companies in the Swedish context. The cases cover fashion wear as well as outdoor clothing. The theoretical frame builds on the industrial marketing and purchasing approach to business markets with a special focus on resource interaction and value creation.FindingsThe multiple case study provides the basis for identifying three categories of renting models: membership, subscription and individual item renting. The three models use different patterns of resource mobilisation, resource utilisation and resource combination to build their value creation logics.Research limitations/implicationsA plethora of different business models for sharing resources will be needed in reaching sustainable development in the fashion context. Renting models is one such model for sharing resources that increase product usage but struggles with economic sustainability.Practical implicationsThe paper offers implications for actors in the fashion industry and capital systems by considering renting models not as tech start-ups but as sustainable start-up business models in which investments require longer time frames before showing results.Originality/valueFew studies have treated the variety of renting models for clothing items. Thereby this paper extends the literature by providing a categorization of such models and how they create value.

Renting models

Sharing economy

Business models

Business networks

Resource interaction

Författare

Agnes Andersson Waenstrom

Högskolan i Borås

Daniel Hjelmgren

Högskolan i Borås

Maria Landqvist

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Frida Lind

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Supply and Operations Management

Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing

0885-8624 (ISSN)

Vol. In Press

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)

Företagsekonomi

Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap

DOI

10.1108/JBIM-04-2024-0281

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2025-01-10