Capital of the Department of Caldas, Republic of Colombia, located in the center of the country, coffee region, with over 400,000 inhabitants.
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The Electronic Obsolescence as an Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurship: The Case of EEE in Manizales, Colombia
Diego Lopez Cardona (University of Manizales, Colombia) and Rocio del S. Tabares Hoyos (Universidad de Manizales, Colombia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8939-6.ch011
Abstract
The chapter contains the concepts of social entrepreneurship, planned and perceived obsolescence, corporate social responsibility, the legal framework for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) waste, and reverse logistics, as theoretical support from different authors. Applied to Manizales, Colombia, the study was conducted with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The information was collected through surveys and interviews with 26 entrepreneurs and 331 households' consumers to know the type of appliances, how they buy, change, and use them, and the chain of intermediaries. With planned and perceived obsolescence, products lose their life in a short time, are dumped as waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), and collected by people of a low educational and economic level that survive in precarious conditions. Due to these results and conclusions, the authors offer in the chapter the opportunity to generate proposals for their inclusion and social development.