Chapter 3: Development of the Disposition Model: Hypotheses and Conceptual Framework

The main objective of this chapter is to develop a conceptual research model to examine product disposition tendency of disposers. In order to achieve the objective, paradigm of product disposition processes (Hanson, 1980), model of factors influencing product replacement (van Nes and Cramer, 2010) and prior studies that have adopted qualitative approach to study factors impacting product disposition behavior and disposer identity are examined and discussed. Subsequently, these theories are fused to conceptualize the research model. Within this section, the interrelationships between constructs that build up the research model are discussed. The research model for this study is presented within this section. The following section then puts forward the research hypotheses for this study.