51750
2018
2018
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Elsevier
New York
1
2018-06-07
2018-06-07
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The many faces of sustainability-conscious consumers
Responding to the global call for a "sustainable economy" requires meaningful insights into sustainability-conscious consumers and their actual buying behaviors. Sustainable consumption is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon because it encompasses several distinct behavioral patterns and consumption types. Therefore, companies are well advised to recognize multiple types of sustainability-conscious consumers with different expectations, attitudes, and values and to implement targeting strategies that do not rest on the assumption of homogeneity. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide a more fine-grained picture of (un)sustainable consumer segments and their differentiated effects in different product markets. Based on three large datasets, we create a robust six-segment typology of consumer consciousness regarding sustainable consumption. By using panel data on actual purchases, the results show not only that sustainability concerns significantly positively influence actual sustainable purchases, as expected, but also that sustainable buying can occur independently of sustainability concerns.
Journal of Business Research
a category-independent typology
10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.022
0148-2963
1873-7978
wos:2018
WOS:000442058600009
Seegebarth, B (reprint author), Tech Univ Carolo Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Inst Mkt, Abt Jerusalem Str 4, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany., ingo.balderjahn@uni-potsdam.de; mathiaspeyer@mail.de; b.seegebarth@tu-braunschweig.de; wiedmann@m2.uni-hannover.de; a.weber@hhl.de
German Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchFederal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) [01UT1429A]
2021-09-14T09:42:41+00:00
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Mathias Peyer
Barbara Seegebarth
Klaus-Peter Wiedmann
Anja Weber
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consumption
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Human values
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2016
2016
eng
68
99
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50
article
ACCI
Ames, Iowa
1
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The sustainability roots of anti-consumption lifestyles and initial insights regarding their effects on consumers' well-being
This article introduces the concept of sustainability-rooted anticonsumption (SRAC), which refers to consumers' anticonsumption practices of voluntary simplicity in living and, on a smaller level, collaborative consumption and boycotting with the goal of supporting sustainable economic development. The SRAC measurement approach is validated based on three empirical studies. Results of a representative German sample (Study 2) reveal that SRAC is predominantly negatively linked to consumer overconsumption dispositions. Exemplary, voluntary simplification and boycott intention may result in declining levels of indebtedness. Study 3 shows that psychosocial well-being is positively related to SRAC and overconsumption. However, a simplified lifestyle and a greater willingness to boycott are not necessarily associated with psychosocial well-being. This article provides insights for practitioners and policymakers to leverage existing SRAC values via “new” business models (sharing offers) or to influence the existing level of consciousness to effectively pave the way for solid progress in the sustainability movement.
The Journal of consumer affairs : JCA
1745-6606
10.1111/joca.12077
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Ingo Balderjahn
Barbara Seegebarth
Mathias Peyer
Klaus-Peter Wiedmann
Wirtschaft
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Universität Potsdam
45560
2016
2016
eng
68
99
32
50
article
Wiley
Hoboken
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The Sustainability Roots of Anticonsumption Lifestyles and Initial
This article introduces the concept of sustainability-rooted anticonsumption (SRAC), which refers to consumers' anticonsumption practices of voluntary simplicity in living and, on a smaller level, collaborative consumption and boycotting with the goal of supporting sustainable economic development. The SRAC measurement approach is validated based on three empirical studies. Results of a representative German sample (Study 2) reveal that SRAC is predominantly negatively linked to consumer overconsumption dispositions. Exemplary, voluntary simplification and boycott intention may result in declining levels of indebtedness. Study 3 shows that psychosocial well-being is positively related to SRAC and overconsumption. However, a simplified lifestyle and a greater willingness to boycott are not necessarily associated with psychosocial well-being. This article provides insights for practitioners and policymakers to leverage existing SRAC values via “new” business models (sharing offers) or to influence the existing level of consciousness to effectively pave the way for solid progress in the sustainability movement.
The Journal of consumer affairs
10.1111/joca.12077
0022-0078
1745-6606
wos2016:2019
5th International-Centre-of-Anti-Consumption-Research (ICAR) Symposium
JUL 04-05, 2014
WOS:000372327400004
Univ Kiel, Kiel, GERMANY, Univ Kiel
Seegebarth, B (reprint author), Tech Univ Carolo Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.; Peyer, M; Balderjahn, I (reprint author), Univ Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.; Wiedmann, KP (reprint author), Leibniz Univ Hannover, Hannover, Germany., b.seegebarth@tu-braunschweig.de; mpeyer@uni-potsdam.de; ingo.balderjahn@uni-potsdam.de; wiedmann@m2.uni-hannover.de
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Mathias Peyer
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Klaus-Peter Wiedmann
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2013
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Springer
New York
Academy of Marketing Science
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2013-10-12
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Consciousness for sustainable consumption : scale development and new insights in the economic dimension of consumers’ sustainability
The “triple bottom line” concept (planet, people, and profit) represents an important guideline for the sustainable, hence future-oriented, development of societies and for the behaviors of all societal members. For institutions promoting societal change, as well as for companies being confronted with growing expectations regarding compelling contributions to sustainable changes, it is of great importance to know if, and to what extent, consumers have already internalized the idea of sustainability. Against the background of existing research gaps regarding a comprehensive measurement of the consciousness for sustainable consumption (CSC), the authors present the result of a scale development. Consciousness was operationalized by weighting personal beliefs with the importance attached by consumers to sustainability dimensions. Four separate tests of the CSC scale indicated an appropriate psychometric quality of the scale and provided support for this new measurement approach that incorporates the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability.
AMS review : official publication of the Academy of Marketing Scienc
10.1007/s13162-013-0057-6
1869-814X
1869-8182
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Ingo Balderjahn
Anja Buerke
Manfred Kirchgeorg
Mathias Peyer
Barbara Seegebarth
Klaus-Peter Wiedmann
eng
uncontrolled
Sustainability
eng
uncontrolled
Consciousness for sustainable consumption
eng
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Scale development
Wirtschaft
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Universität Potsdam