When people are green and greedy: A new perspective of recycling rewards and crowding-out in Germany, the USA and China

Yang, Xisi; Thøgersen, John

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.086

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“…The second contribution of this research is that, through the lens of the MOA framework, our systematic review illustrates how the effectiveness of these policy instruments can be mixed, supporting concerns raised in previous literature (e.g., Grolleau et al 2016;Nielsen, Holmberg, and Stripple 2019;Yang and Thøgersen 2022). By classifying the environmental policies based on constraining versus facilitating (for economic and regulatory instruments) or facilitation of motivation, ability, or opportunity (for informational instruments), our review highlights how each type of environmental policy has its own benefits as well as drawbacks.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…For example, although regulatory policy instruments might be effective because of their enforcement power, these policies might also cause consumer reactance (Nielsen, Holmberg, and Stripple 2019). Economic instruments might be effective if the incentives are sufficiently high, but these extrinsic rewards can overrule intrinsic motivations (Yang and Thøgersen 2022). Finally, although informational instruments might increase environmental awareness, they unfortunately do not effectively convert to pro-environmental behavior (Grolleau et al 2016).…”

Section: Environmental Policy Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Policies and the Promotion of Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Pham,

Thai,

Heffernan

et al. 2023

Journal of Macromarketing

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Governments and policymakers play a crucial role in promoting consumer behaviors to mitigate climate change. The research on environmental policies over the past decades has not significantly increased knowledge regarding how effectively these policies help consumers embrace pro-environmental behaviors. Using the motivation–opportunity–ability (MOA) framework, this systematic review reveals that regulatory policies that constrain opportunities are more likely to promote pro-environmental behavior. Furthermore, economic policy instruments that facilitate opportunities are also more likely to promote pro-environmental behaviors. Despite being more commonly employed, informational policy instruments are less effective than regulatory and economic instruments. Although informational policy instruments that target opportunities instead of motivations and abilities can result in better outcomes, behavior change remains a challenge. This systematic review is significant because it clarifies mixed results in the literature regarding the effectiveness of environmental policies in promoting pro-environmental behaviors. Accordingly, a framework of MOA-based policy mix is proposed to help policymakers develop effective instruments that stimulate pro-environmental behaviors.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Section: Environmental Policy Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Policies and the Promotion of Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Pham,

Thai,

Heffernan

et al. 2023

Journal of Macromarketing

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“…For example, recycling attracts consumers in a few cases (Sharma et al, 2021). It is necessary to engage individual consumers to increase recycling performance (Yang & Thøgersen, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), Wang et al (2019) find that perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, attitudes, and economic motivations significantly positively affect the residents' participation intention in online recycling. However, the existing evidence regarding the effectiveness of these various interventions in engaging private consumers appears contradictory and insufficient (Yang & Thøgersen, 2022). A potential disadvantage of economic incentives is that they may crowd out individuals' intrinsic motivation (Frey & Oberholzer-Gee, 1997).…”

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Does firms' carbon disclosure increase consumers' recycling willingness and firms' recycling performance?

2022

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Nowadays, firms are expected to actively respond and take actions to respond to global warming and carbon emissions reduction. As a part of a circular economy, recycling improves waste management and reduces carbon emissions for firms. In the development of firms' strategies, the problem of enhancing the recycling performance becomes a challenge. This paper explores how carbon disclosure influences firms' recycling performance from consumers' purposive inference of firms' recycling behaviors. First, based on a sample of 442 firms' data, we demonstrate that firms' carbon disclosure increases firms' recycling performance. To further explain this effect from the consumer's point of view, two online experiments (N1 = 445 and N2 = 433) show that firms' carbon disclosure increases consumers' recycling willingness, as it acts as an environmental appeal that raises consumers' communal intention inference about firms' recycling and thus enhances consumers' recycling willingness. Furthermore, we find that economic incentives do not increase consumers' recycling willingness. Our study suggests that firms should be cautious in using economic

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How green intrinsic and extrinsic motivations interact, balance and imbalance with each other to trigger green purchase intention and behavior: A polynomial regression with response surface analysis

Duong,

Nguyen,

Nguyen

2023

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When people are green and greedy: A new perspective of recycling rewards and crowding-out in Germany, the USA and China

Cited by 25 publications

References 124 publications

Environmental Policies and the Promotion of Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Environmental Policies and the Promotion of Pro-Environmental Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

Does firms' carbon disclosure increase consumers' recycling willingness and firms' recycling performance?

How green intrinsic and extrinsic motivations interact, balance and imbalance with each other to trigger green purchase intention and behavior: A polynomial regression with response surface analysis

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