Regulatory Aspects of Servitisation

study materials for global course

Abstract

This course material was prepared as a support for a lectures series under Global Law Programme organised by the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium), Faculty of Law and Criminology. The course dealt with EU regulatory challenges arising from the servitisation of manufacturing and the related sustainability and digitalisation process in the EU economy. Servitisation is a complex interdisciplinary concept that essentially stands for bringing together products and services. Servitization as an economic megatrend reflects consumers’ oriented business models, offering not just products to the buyers, but solutions to their problems. This solution offering is enhanced by digitalisation of the economy that makes the relationship between product-service providers and their customers easier to maintain due to various mechanisms of distant communication and monitoring. Moreover, servitisation is at the centre of the endeavours to establish a more sustainable circular economy. Adding services to products can prolong their consumption time, decrease the amount of materials needed for certain effect and improve waste management. Increasingly, however, it is clear that servitisation is not just related to environmental sustainability, but social as well. These services often require people to be performed and digital applications tend to decrease their rights as workers to the benefit of the owners of these applications.

Keywords

servitisation;digitalisation;circular economy;sharing economy;platforms;extended producer's responsibility;ecodesign;consumer protection;EU;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2024
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Organization:	UM PF - Faculty of Law
Publisher:	Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba
UDC:	338.46:004:34
COBISS:	183271427
ISBN:	978-961-286-824-6
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Pravni vidiki storitvizacije
Secondary abstract:	To študijsko gradivo je bilo pripravljeno kot podpora za serijo predavanj v okviru programa Global Law, ki ga je organizirala Katoliška univerza Leuven (Belgija), Fakulteta za pravo in kriminologijo. Predmet je obravnaval regulatorne izzive EU, ki izhajajo iz storitvizacije proizvodnje in s tem povezanih procesov trajnosti in digitalizacije v gospodarstvu EU. Storitvizacija je kompleksen interdisciplinarni koncept, ki v bistvu pomeni združevanje izdelkov in storitev. Storitvizacija kot ekonomski megatrend odraža k potrošnikom usmerjene poslovne modele, ki kupcem ne ponujajo le izdelkov, temveč rešitve za njihove težave. Ta ponudba rešitev je nadgrajena z digitalizacijo gospodarstva, ki omogoča lažje vzdrževanje odnosa med ponudniki izdelkov in storitev ter njihovimi kupci zaradi različnih mehanizmov oddaljenega komuniciranja in spremljanja. Poleg tega je storitvizacija v središču prizadevanj za vzpostavitev bolj trajnostnega krožnega gospodarstva. Dodajanje storitev izdelkom lahko podaljša čas njihove porabe, zmanjša količino potrebnih materialov za določen učinek in izboljša ravnanje z odpadki. Vse bolj pa je jasno, da storitvizacija ni povezana samo z okoljsko trajnostjo, ampak tudi s socialno. Te storitve pogosto zahtevajo, da jih izvajajo ljudje, digitalne aplikacije pa običajno zmanjšujejo njihove pravice delavcev v korist lastnikov teh aplikacij.
Secondary keywords:	storitvizacija;digitalizacija;krožno gospodarstvo;sodelovalna ekonomija;platforme;razširjena produktna odgovornost;ekodizajn;varstvo potrošnikov;EU;
DOI:	10.18690/um.pf.2.2024
ID:	22766794