Purchasing intentions of Chinese consumers on energy-efficient appliances: Is the energy efficiency label effective?

Wang, Zhaohua; Qingyu, Sun; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Bin

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.117896

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“…A more recent study conducted in South Korea, based on structured questionnaires to understand the purchase intentions of Korean consumers toward EEAs, found that subjective norms had a positive effect on energy-efficient behavior [28]. Further, Wang et al [48] emphasized that this effect also holds for purchasing intentions of EEAs. These findings have been further supported by additional studies across Asia [45,57].…”

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“…Most scholars have, however, focused on the energy-efficient purchasing intentions of samples of the wider population, so that research on differences between groups is lacking. However, some recent studies have begun to incorporate socio-demographic characteristics into their models with the aim of exploring group differences [47,48]. Thirdly, this study applies multi-group analysis (MGA) to deepen the structural equation model analysis, with the aim of exploring the purchase intentions of different groups of consumers toward EEAs.…”

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Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior

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This research applies an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) to empirically investigate consumers’ intentions in Pakistan to purchase energy-efficient appliances (EEAs). Most developing countries face energy crises. As a result, many countries consider EEAs to be part of the solution to energy-related problems and teach sustainable consumption behavior to consumers. Previous studies have neglected developing countries in this context, yet developing markets have great potential for EEA adoption. To understand EEA adoption, we incorporated such variables as warm glow benefits, utilitarian environmental benefits, normative beliefs, and moral obligations as antecedents to TPB variables. The moderating effect of eco-literacy between attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control (PBC), and purchase intention toward EEAs are also examined. Data was gathered through a survey questionnaire from 673 Pakistani consumers to empirically test the proposed hypotheses. The results reveal that utilitarian environmental benefits and warm glow benefits significantly influence attitudes toward EEAs. The findings also show a positive effect of normative beliefs on subjective norms. The interaction effect of eco-literacy positively influences the relationship between attitude and purchase intention, with similar results for subjective norms and purchase intention. However, no significant moderating effect of eco-literacy is found between PBC and purchase intention. Furthermore, we performed multi-group analysis to explore significant group differences by utilizing socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, education, and income. The results show significant group differences, with females’ purchasing behavior, younger consumers, and educated consumers being more readily influenced. Finally, insights for policymakers, suggestions and future directions are discussed.

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Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior

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“…In the research framework of cultural values, Hofstede's cultural model is a classical framework of cross-cultural studies (Graafland & Noorderhaven, 2018;Xia et al, 2019). Hofstede's (1984) initial framework of cultural values only included four dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism/collectivism and femininity/masculinity.…”

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Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

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Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) of residents can greatly alleviate the threat of environmental pollution to human living environment and promote sustainable development of the society. Cross-cultural studies show that there are significant differences in PEB among countries with different cultural backgrounds. Even within the same country or region, individual cultural values are not identical. So, can various individual cultural values impact PEB differently? To answer this question, this paper investigates the mechanism on how cultural value differences affect residents' PEB, based on Hofstede's cultural model. Following an analysis of 475 questionnaires from residents, the results show that Hofstede's five dimensions of cultural value can significantly impact public-and/or private-sphere PEB. Among them, collectivism and long-term orientation of residents have positive effects on both public-and privatesphere PEB and uncertainty avoidance has a negative impact. Besides, masculinity only affects the public-sphere PEB, and power distance affects neither private-nor public-sphere PEB. In addition, three social-demographic characteristics including gender, age, and educational level have a significant moderating effect on the relationship between cultural values and PEB. These findings can provide useful recommendations for policy makers to draft PEB guidelines and incentive policies based on the differences in cultural values of their residents.

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“…According to Wang et al (2019), the attitude is the key factor affecting the consumers' purchase intent. The environmental attitude (ecological attitude) is manifested on three dimensions: cognitive, affective, and active (Diminescu, 2003), being a person's collection of beliefs, effects, and behavioural intents regarding environmental activities or problems (Schultz et al, 2004), and this attitude is frequently used to foresee the environmental behaviour (Kaiser et al, 1999).…”

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“…Regarding the energetic efficiency, according to Teng et al (2012), the success of the implementation of practices concerning power conservation in hotels and carbon emission reduction depends mainly on the management's support and on the personnel's implication. According to Wang et al (2019), the attitude may influence the purchase of energetically efficient devices or equipment. The purchase of this equipment or of other technologies to minimise power consumption or the use of power regenerable sources (solar, geothermal sources) (Bohdanowicz, Zientara and Novotna, 2011) contributes to the improvement of energetic efficiency.…”

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Ecological Purchases Made by Managers in Hotel Industry. An Approach of the Main Determining Factors

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Lately, there has been an intensification of the concern for environmental protection and development of an ecological attitude and behaviour among the operators in tourism industry. Consequently, ecological purchases have become important components in establishing hotel environmental strategies and in the customers' consumption behaviour. Most of the researchers present this very attitude of the customers regarding the green products and their intention to buy them. The present research approaches ecological purchases from the hotel managers' perspective, by analysing the relationships among them, and the environmental attitude, environmental problems, and the benefits motivating the managers to make ecological purchases in 92 hotels in Romania. In this research we used the frequency analysis, scale reliability, and multiple linear regression analysis (the method of the least squares). The data were analysed with the help of STATA program, and the results support the research hypotheses, showing that the influence of the environmental attitude and of the economic benefits on ecological purchases is important. The results show a significant and positive relationship among the ecological purchases, the environmental attitude, and the associated benefits. In addition, the study identifies a negative relationship between the ecological purchases and the environmental concern. Furthermore, hotel classification has a negative influence on the ecological purchases made by their managers. The implications, limits, and future lines of research are also mentioned in this study.

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Purchasing intentions of Chinese consumers on energy-efficient appliances: Is the energy efficiency label effective?

Cited by 81 publications

References 29 publications

Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior

Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior

Promoting sustainable development: The impact of differences in cultural values on residents' pro‐environmental behaviors

Ecological Purchases Made by Managers in Hotel Industry. An Approach of the Main Determining Factors

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