Cambodian customers' perception of remanufactured automotive partsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Remanufacturing / [ed] Yan Wang, Winifred Ijomah, James Windmill, Wei Zhang, Zhigang Jiang, 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The Cambodian economy is growing significantly causing the local car fleet to follow. Consequently, the need for car spare parts is steadily increasing. Unlike other regions inthe world, like Europe, North America and some Asian countries, automotive partremanufacturing in Cambodia has hardly been practised nor analyzed. This research aimsto study the awareness and perception of car owners in Cambodia of remanufactured carparts as alternatives to new spare parts. To reach this aim, primary data was collected toinvestigate the knowledge and the perception of remanufactured car parts amongtowards alternatives to new spare parts (e.g., remanufactured parts). The 425 validresponses from Cambodians were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Evaluating theresponses show, that 70% of respondents were aware of remanufacturing, but theirperception is mostly negative. More than half perceive remanufactured automotive parts asinferior to new counterparts. When being offered alternatives to new parts without using the term 'remanufactured' the willingness to buy is higher than when using the term.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023.
Keywords [en]
Circular Economy, End-of-Use (EoU), End-of-Life (EoL), Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC), Sustainability, Automotive, Spare Parts, Electric Vehicle (EV), Reuse, Repair, Refurbish, Remanufacturing, Recycle, Cambodia
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics Business Administration
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-196414OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-196414DiVA, id: diva2:1785129
Conference
11th International Conference on Remanufacturing, Amsterdam, June 27-29, 2023
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