Ecologically friendly buying — Theoretical implications of a phenomenological perspective

Solér, Cecilia

doi:10.1016/0956-5221(96)00010-3

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“…Secondly, customers have to be educated to value a clean environment. Solér (1996) says that ecologically friendly purchasing is crucially dependent on consumer perceptions. Attitudes have to change for actions to be effective (Halme, 1997).…”

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Corporate environmental behaviour - a comparison between Nordic and US firms

Lindell¹,

Karagozoglu

2001

Bus. Strat. Env.

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The green challenge will be one of the key strategic issues facing businesses in the coming decades. Some argue that it is important for mankind as a whole. In this article the opinions of Nordic and US managers on environmental matters are investigated and compared. A questionnaire was sent to senior managers mainly in four industries: forest and paper, electronics, telecommunications and the printing industry. The results show that US managers perceive government laws and actions to be more stringent than Nordic managers do and the time to adapt was felt to be too short. There were no differences between the two regions in the degree of pro‐activeness and environmental innovation. However US managers reported a shortage of skilled labour. Managers both in the Nordic countries and the USA considered themselves to be ahead of their competitors in environmental actions. Nordic managers were much more positive toward the competitive effects and profitability of environmental measures than their US counterparts. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

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Corporate environmental behaviour - a comparison between Nordic and US firms

Lindell¹,

Karagozoglu

2001

Bus. Strat. Env.

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“…One such characteristic might be the consumer's perception of environmental quality. Soler (1996) found that environmentally-friendly purchasing is shaped by consumers' experiences. These can propagate an association between environmental issues and their own behaviour.…”

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“…This is consistent with economic theory in that the reduction of global pollution impacts, for instance the emissions of greenhouse gases, is a public good. Soler (1996) proposes that "instructive and trustworthy" information is a factor in that it allows rational decisions to be made by consumers based on their intentions. Moore (1993) supports this proposition, and it is of key significance to the argument of this paper since it is an underlying assumption of the strategic behavioural model developed in the next section.…”

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“…The main conclusion from the study was that consumers are confused and distrustful about environmental claimsbut most of them could be persuaded to buy "green" products if they are given the right sort of information. Thus, the general requisite for "green" consumerisminformative and trustworthy information (Soler, 1996) is also necessary for ecolabelling.…”

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Green Consumerism and Ecolabelling: A Strategic Behavioural Model

Hussain¹

2000

J Agricultural Economics

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The ethos of “green” marketing is to affect tastes and perceptions so that those individuals for whom the attribute of environmental‐friendliness is significant can signal this preference by choosing the “green” alternative. This paper presents a strategic behavioural model of interactions between two agents, a firm and consumer, under conditions of incomplete information. The outcome of the model is that, unless some restrictive and (arguably) unrealistic conditions apply, some proportion of “green” marketing campaigns will be misleading; “green” marketing is not restricted to “green” products, and “green” consumers only adapt their purchasing habits some of the time. Ecolabelling schemes can be used as a means of ameliorating this inefficiency in information‐transfer. Whether state intervention to make ecolabelling mandatory for “green” products is welfare‐improving depends on the balance between the deadweight losses from the process and the gains in terms of facilitating the expression of “green” preferences.

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“…From a sustainability viewpoint, this is bad news. Scholars have suggested that the road to sustainability requires measures such as green accounting (Gray and Bebbington, 2001), green product development (Ritzén, 2000), life-cycle assessments (Baumann, 1998;Baumann and Tillman, 2004), new consumption patterns (Solér, 1996), green marketing (Belz, 2001) and functional sales (Söderström, 2004). A majority of the influential texts in the field of corporate environmental management are normative and technical in the sense that they point at what needs to be done in order to reach a more desired future (Dobers et al, 2000(Dobers et al, , 2001a.…”

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Design, lifestyles and sustainability. Aesthetic consumption in a world of abundance

Dobers

Strannegård

2005

Bus Strat Env

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This paper strives for a conceptualization of sustainability, design and contemporary consumption. By sketching out how effective production systems have created an abundance of products, the paper links this development to the aestheticization of society and an increased interest in design. In market economies characterized by profusion, corporations engage in activities filling their offerings with aura, aesthetics, symbols and meaning. In such lands of plenty, conspicuous consumption becomes a thoroughly expressive activity and highly problematic for actors with ambitions to design a sustainable future. Our conclusion is that sustainability must ultimately be seen as intertwined with social processes such as fashion, identity and identity construction.

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Ecologically friendly buying — Theoretical implications of a phenomenological perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Corporate environmental behaviour - a comparison between Nordic and US firms

Corporate environmental behaviour - a comparison between Nordic and US firms

Green Consumerism and Ecolabelling: A Strategic Behavioural Model

Design, lifestyles and sustainability. Aesthetic consumption in a world of abundance

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