This paper advances the conceptual understanding of consumption stewardship, defined here as a moral commitment to safeguard, nurture and use consumption resources to create consumer value. We delineate consumption stewardship from related consumption variables and articulate its underlying assumptions, conceptual distinctiveness and application areas. To create new theoretical and practical insights, the paper explores how consumption stewardship unfolds when a person enters into and lives in restricted consumption. A 2-year qualitative study, which included observation, casual conversations, and interviews, was implemented. Findings illustrate the nature and trajectory of consumption stewardship across latent, vigilant, submissive and shared modes. Our conceptual development of consumption stewardship and empirical evidence of the homeless experiences makes two main contributions. First, we show how the demands of stewarding material objects operate as a powerful determinant for individual (re)valuation of various possessions. Second, we identify how consumption stewardship drives different ways of consumption for value seeking. Findings offer insights for debates in the marketplace about protecting one's possessions, policies around consumption adequacy and social services' role for addressing space-related needs of vulnerable consumers.

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少看重，多保护：受限环境下的消费管理

本文推进了对消费管理的概念理解，这里将其定义为保护、培育和使用消费资源以创造消费者价值的道德承诺。我们从相关的消费变量中描述消费管理，并阐明其基本假设、概念独特性和应用领域。为了创造新的理论和实践见解，本文探讨了当一个人进入并生活在受限消费中时，消费管理是如何展开的。实施了一项为期 2 年的定性研究，其中包括观察、随意交谈和访谈。调查结果说明了消费管理在潜在、警惕、顺从和共享模式中的性质和轨迹。我们对消费管理的概念发展和无家可归经历的经验证据做出了两个主要贡献。首先，我们展示了管理物质对象的需求如何作为个人（重新）评估各种财产的强大决定因素。其次，我们确定消费管理如何推动不同的消费方式以寻求价值。调查结果为市场上关于保护个人财产的辩论、围绕消费充足性的政策以及社会服务在解决弱势消费者与空间相关需求方面的作用提供了见解。