Identification of Key Forces Influencing Sustainable Development in Taiwan

Mokhtar, Sharin; Deng, Yi-Shin

doi:10.5539/jsd.v8n2p174

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“…The survey was conducted in Taiwan for several reasons [63]. Taiwan is densely populated and the environment is heavily polluted [66], which made BYOB an official policy and most consumers are aware of it [67]. According to the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, billions of plastic bags are consumed annually on the island.…”

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Consumer Intention toward Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags in Taiwan: An Application of Ethics Perspective and Theory of Planned Behavior

Chang

Chou

2018

Sustainability

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Following Chan and coworkers ' (2008) research, the current study integrated Hunt and Vitell's (1986) ethics perspective and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to present a model that explains consumers' intention to "Bring Your Own Shopping Bags" (BYOB) with grocery shopping. The proposed model is empirically validated in Taiwan. Based on a survey of 601 respondents, the findings suggest that consumers' deontological evaluation is positively related to their attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control, while teleological evaluation is positively related to perceived behavioral control only. In addition, the results also indicate that consumers' attitude and perceived behavioral control has a positive relationship with BYOB intention, while subjective norm does not have a signification relationship with BYOB intention. In sum, this study contributes to the literature by providing insights for applying general ethics and theory of planned behavior to explain consumers' BYOB behavior. The results also provide policy makers guidelines regarding BYOB. Managerial implications and research limitations are discussed at the end of this paper.

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Consumer Intention toward Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags in Taiwan: An Application of Ethics Perspective and Theory of Planned Behavior

Chang

Chou

2018

Sustainability

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“…It forms the basis for all the subsequent analyses [8]. Relating it to GRI allows us to decide on the major issues that crude palm oil companies and consequently the crude palm oil industry have to address in the coming decades Figure 1.…”

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Sustainable Financing for Biogas Fuel from Palm Oil Industry Waste

Ya¹

2018

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Sustainable development as a new paradigm in generating economic growth has gained the attention and commitent of many institutions and countries. This issue is so important, that the United Nations in cooperation with various governments, civil society and other economic players have developed a sustainable development framework that is expected to bring economic and environmental sustainability interests together, provide economic transformation process, and expand access for the poor to get out of poverty, and enforce justice. This also takes into account that the social and environmental issues which have not been included in the economic calculations have become important elements that need to be considered. In particular, environmental sustainability is examined to better understand its impact on consumers and firm performance. We introduced Sustainable Financing, which is used as variable to implementing financial institutions' lending policies. Sustainable finance supporting the principles of sustainable development namely the 4P (pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-poor, and pro-environment). Due to the high energy requirements to support development, sustainable finance activities will give priority to the development of new renewable energy and energy conservation from Biogas Fuel escpecially based on Palm Oil Industry waste. In the long term, the distribution of sustainable financing to strategic sector industries is expected to encourage sustainable economic growth, which in turn will provide a larger market for financial services institutions.

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“…Therefore, the conduct of regular seminars, workshops, and "roadshows" for public servants at local governments could help create and improve their awareness of consequences of various environmental issues [35,53,54], which they lack due to the daily focus on operational and administrative tasks of implementing environmental policies. In addition, the implementation of a mandatory basic environmental education training program through legislation (such as the Environmental Education Act) [55,56] could address the lack of ascription of responsibility where pro-environmental behaviors might be established through awareness of consequences.…”

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“…Further research is required to provide comparisons between Taiwan and other countries and to determine related similarities or differences. In addition, future research can also be conducted to investigate other factors that influence pro-environmental behaviors [56,57], the related issues in the implementation of policies by public servants, and other possible effects on behavioral paths. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree I have an obligation to cherish the limited resources of the earth.…”

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Using the Norm Activation Model to Predict the Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Public Servants at the Central and Local Governments in Taiwan

Fang

Chiang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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An understanding of the environmental value-action gap between public servants at the central and local governments is essential for the effective implementation of environmental policies, which is limited in the extant literature. This study has adopted the norm activation model to explore the pro-environmental behaviors of public servants at the central and local governments in Taiwan. A total of 7567 valid questionnaires were collected, and significant differences were evident between public servants at the central (n = 3400) and local (n = 4167) governments in personal norms, awareness of consequences, ascription of responsibility, and pro-environmental behaviors. Findings revealed that personal norms were the key factors predicting pro-environmental behaviors of public servants at both the central and local governments. Results also indicated that the awareness of consequences by public servants at the central government had a direct effect on their pro-environmental behaviors, which in turn had a significant effect on their ascription of responsibility. In contrast, awareness of consequences by public servants at the local government had no significant direct effect on their pro-environmental behaviors and had only a weak positive effect on their ascription of responsibility.

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Identification of Key Forces Influencing Sustainable Development in Taiwan

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Consumer Intention toward Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags in Taiwan: An Application of Ethics Perspective and Theory of Planned Behavior

Consumer Intention toward Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags in Taiwan: An Application of Ethics Perspective and Theory of Planned Behavior

Sustainable Financing for Biogas Fuel from Palm Oil Industry Waste

Using the Norm Activation Model to Predict the Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Public Servants at the Central and Local Governments in Taiwan

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