While many information technology vendors deliberately cut their products’ lifecycles to elicit repeat purchases, consumers are often unaware of such planned obsolescence. This paper investigates the effects of atypical two-sided communication about planned obsolescence on consumers’ beliefs and buying intentions. Drawing upon insights from inoculation theory, we hypothesize that trust and inte...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a retailer's pro"t-maximizing myopic inventory policy for an item recognized as subject to gradual obsolescence. Demand is assumed to be a decreasing function of both the retailer's sale price and of time, up to a certain stochastic time point when obsolescence occurs and, as a result, the demand suddenly drops to zero. For each ordering cycle, the decisi...

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Digitally transformed firms show resilience against environmental volatility by regularly developing adaptive capabilities and transforming their processes to mitigate the effects of obsolescence. However, there is a lack conceptual clarity on obsolescence notion means avoiding it. This paper aims investigate how firms’ empirical sensitivities evolving changes emerge materialize into ongoing ma...