Manke, Birte Karoline LinneaBirte Karoline LinneaManke2023-04-132023-04-132023-02-20https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/107732Consumers face abundance, which means owning more objects or being presented with more opportunities than consumers can realistically use. The abundance forces consumers to decide about the disposal, disconnection, and reorganization of their consumption objects and time. However, prior research on consumers decision-making around disposal and reorganization is scant. Existing theories build strongly on consumer identity concerns. This perspective made previous research center around the relationship between the consumer and a consumption object, with a special interest in meaningful consumption objects. Research is required, which widens the perspective: Additional research should consider the relationship between consumption objects. Further, explore the role of mundane consumption objects. Additionally, prior research focused strongly on analog consumption objects. However, digitalization brings up challenges of abundance also in the digital sphere. Little research is conducted on how consumers handle the increasing temporal demands. We investigate how consumers handle material, immaterial abundance, and increasing temporal demands through ethnographic and interview studies. The thesis contains four papers, which are presented in chronological order. The first paper explores how consumers re-organize their domestic classification systems. This paper offers a conceptualization of domestic classification systems and clutter and a description of how it emerges. A sociological category research lens allows us to describe how consumers re-organize their domestic classification systems. The second paper investigates consumers digital decluttering behavior. First, we elaborate on the different demands between digital and analog objects. Then we present the motivations for consumers to start a digital decluttering process and the practices consumers engage in to declutter digitally. The third article is also concerned with the phenomenon of digital decluttering. This paper focuses on how consumers explicitly engage in digital decluttering practices to regain time. We present a process model which describes how consumers become more reflexive about their choices around time allocation. The last paper investigates in-depth consumers time management and planning behavior. This paper presents a model of how consumers allocate their time.enEthnologieVerbraucherverhaltenZeiteinteilungEDIS-5299DeclutteringTime ManagementTime PlanningConsumer BehaviorAbundanceConsumer CultureDigital Declutteringdoctoral thesis