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Publication date: 13 January 2020

Factors influencing willingness of customers of environmentally friendly hotels to pay a price premium

M. Rosario González-Rodríguez, M. Carmen Díaz-Fernández and Xavier Font

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of customers’ environmental concerns, customers’ perceptions of a hotel’s environmental practices and of the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of customers’ environmental concerns, customers’ perceptions of a hotel’s environmental practices and of the hotels’ environmentally friendly images, on customers’ willingness to pay a price premium to stay at environmentally friendly hotels.

Design/methodology/approach

The theoretical framework comprises both social identity theory and value-belief-norm theory. The data were collected through a survey of 454 customers staying at eco-friendly hotels in Spain. The research model is tested by using a structural equation modelling approach.

Findings

The findings illustrate that customers’ environmental concerns have a greater explanatory value on their willingness to pay a price premium than do their perceptions of the hotels’ environmental practices. Furthermore, these causal relationships are similar in magnitude when considering the mediating effects of the hotels’ eco-friendly image and the environmental practices.

Research limitations/implications

The empirical findings provide managers with a better understanding of how customers’ environmental concerns and their own sense of identification with environmentally friendly hotels influence customers’ behavioural intentions towards willingness to pay a premium.

Originality/value

The paper contributes to the literature by highlighting those cognitive processes that influence the customers’ willingness to pay a price premium to stay at environmentally friendly hotels. Hence, the study provides valuable information to hotel managers.

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International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 32 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-02-2019-0147
ISSN: 0959-6119

Keywords

  • Social identity theory
  • Value-belief-norm theory
  • Willingness to pay a price premium
  • Environmental concern
  • Environmental practices

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Publication date: 3 August 2015

Factors affecting the relationship between environmental concern and behaviors

Jeff Thieme, Marla B. Royne, Subhash Jha, Marian Levy and Wendy Barnes McEntee

– The purpose of this paper is to understand the mediating factors affecting the relationship between environmental concerns and sustainable behaviors.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to understand the mediating factors affecting the relationship between environmental concerns and sustainable behaviors.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors survey 467 respondents and use a structural equation modeling approach to assess environmental involvement and willingness to pay more for green products as mediating variables between a multi-dimensional measure of environmental concern and sustainable behaviors.

Findings

The findings suggest that environmental involvement and willingness to pay more for green products mediate the relationship between environmental concern and sustainable behaviors. But of the three dimensions of environmental concern, only concern for energy is statistically significant in the model.

Research limitations/implications

The results empirically validate the multi-dimensionality of the environmental concern construct and its relationship with consumers’ sustainable behaviors. Both involvement and willingness to pay more for an environmentally friendly product play an important role in linking environmental concern to actionable behaviors.

Practical implications

To reach green consumers who are willing to pay more for environmentally friendly products and ultimately engage in sustainable behaviors, marketers should target those consumers who are most concerned with energy and more involved with the environment.

Originality/value

This paper is the first to study the gap between environmental concern and sustainable behaviors by utilizing involvement and willingness to pay more for an environmentally friendly product as mediators. Results provide critical insight into this often elusive gap. The authors also fill an important gap in the literature by including psychological factors driving consumers’ willingness to pay more for green products.

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 33 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MIP-08-2014-0149
ISSN: 0263-4503

Keywords

  • Consumer marketing
  • Sustainable development
  • Green marketing

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Publication date: 13 March 2017

Intellectual capital and environmental concern in subsistence small businesses

Carlos Maria Jardon and Amandio Dasilva

Small businesses created as a subsistence activity (subsistence small businesses (SSBs)), often are oriented towards the short term. The environmental performance, by…

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Purpose

Small businesses created as a subsistence activity (subsistence small businesses (SSBs)), often are oriented towards the short term. The environmental performance, by contrast, is an indicator of long-term strategies. The purpsoe of this paper is to analyse how intellectual capital (IC) dimensions affect environmental concern, preparing SSBs to have a proper environmental behaviour in the future.

Design/methodology/approach

A method based on the partial least square technique is suggested to select the model and estimate the parameters. A sample of 113 small businesses in the timber industry in a region of Argentina was selected for this study.

Findings

The results indicate that IC promotes environmental concern. Relational capital directly affects environmental concern, human capital and structural capital and these, in turn, indirectly affect the environmental concern through relational capital in SSBs.

Research limitations/implications

The sample used is a cross-section. IC is subjectively measured. This paper only studies small businesses in the timber sector in a region of Latin America.

Practical implications

This paper enables practitioners and scholars to understand and make legitimate decisions and conclusions that can foster SSB growth in environmental concern. The paper suggests a combination of strategies in order to achieve a sustained development.

Originality/value

The authors tested the impact of dimensions of IC on environmental concern in SSB of developing countries, showing the importance of IC in sustained strategies in these companies.

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Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, vol. 28 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-05-2015-0085
ISSN: 1477-7835

Keywords

  • Latin America
  • Environmental concern
  • Intellectual capital
  • Subsistence small business
  • Timber industry

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Publication date: 22 April 2003

Environmental Concerns, Effort and Impact: An Empirical Study

Nazim U. Ahmed, Ray V. Montagno and Douglas W. Naffziger

This study investigates the relationship between environmental concern, environmental effort and their impact on company performance. Results based on survey data from…

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This study investigates the relationship between environmental concern, environmental effort and their impact on company performance. Results based on survey data from sixty companies indicate that there is a positive correlation between environmental concern and effort. In addition, positive correlations between effort and operations efficiency and company image were found. No significant correlation between environmental effort and profit was found. It was observed that top management concern is a key to environmental initiatives. Manufacturing companies seem to have higher concern than those of service companies and expend more effort in reducing pollution, waste recycling etc. However, there is no significant difference in impact on performance between manufacturing and service companies relative to environmental efforts.

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American Journal of Business, vol. 18 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/19355181200300005
ISSN: 1935-5181

Keywords

  • Environmental consciousness
  • Sustainable development
  • Environmental management

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Publication date: 16 July 2020

Sustainability survey to assess student perspectives

James Hardy Speer, Virgil Sheets, Tina M. Kruger, Stephen Peter Aldrich and Nicholas McCreary

The purpose of this study is to assess environmental concern at a Midwest university, analyze trends in concern over time and determine the effect of the development of a…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to assess environmental concern at a Midwest university, analyze trends in concern over time and determine the effect of the development of a campus sustainability office.

Design/methodology/approach

A multi-question survey was administered through peer-to-peer recruitment from an undergraduate environmental science class each fall from 2010–2017. This exercise was originally developed as a pedagogical exercise on the scientific method.

Findings

Over eight years, incoming freshmen have expressed more concern that humans are harming the environment and students also express greater concern as they progress through college.

Research limitations/implications

The first year of the survey (2010) and the year that the lead PI was on sabbatical (2014) saw reduced response rates (∼1%–3% of the student population) compared to 6%–9% of the student population in other years.

Practical implications

Responses to all of the questions in the survey provide guidance for university administrations and sustainability offices about the concerns of the campus community, awareness about campus efforts and support for sustainability activities on campus.

Originality/value

Few studies have been published on students’ perspectives on environmental concern and sustainability activities on university campuses. These data provide an overview of environmental concern, perceived government action and empowerment to action over an eight-year period. This approach is recommended as a technique to teach the scientific method in introductory classes and as a means to collect data about student perspectives on sustainability.

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International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, vol. 21 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-06-2019-0197
ISSN: 1467-6370

Keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Survey
  • Pedagogy
  • Environmental science
  • Student perspectives

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Publication date: 18 April 2019

Green product attributes and green purchase behavior: A theory of planned behavior perspective with implications for circular economy

Aasha Sharma and Cyril Foropon

Nowadays, understanding green consumers has become very critical given its implications for marketers to understand and communicate green purchase patterns on the one…

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Nowadays, understanding green consumers has become very critical given its implications for marketers to understand and communicate green purchase patterns on the one hand, and to design and strategize both product offerings and customer services on the other hand. The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of product attributes on the degree of environment concern, the intention of green purchase and a series of green purchase proposed patterns. This paper is built on the theory of planned behavior, and expands it by replacing subjective norms and perceived behavioral control with respectively environmental knowledge and perceived consumer effectiveness, and also by extending purchase behavior to three types of purchase patterns, namely, unconditional purchase, conditional purchase and accidental purchase.

Design/methodology/approach

The interaction effect is analyzed through ANOVA, whereas path analysis is used to understand path strengths of proposed model, which is assessed through standardized regression weights and significance through p-value.

Findings

Overall, this study reveals the importance of product attributes in the decision-making process of green purchasers.

Research limitations/implications

This study deals with environmental behavior in general, and further research with a focus on specific behaviors is needed in this field investigating the rise of green consumption.

Practical implications

Product attributes play a role in the decision making of consumers willing to buy green products, and both communication and promotion of green products should integrate product attributes accordingly.

Originality/value

Worldwide, consumers are buying more and more green products, and this study leads to a better understanding of the decision-making process of consumers’ green products.

Details

Management Decision, vol. 57 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-10-2018-1092
ISSN: 0025-1747

Keywords

  • Environmental concern
  • Accidental purchase
  • Conditional purchase
  • Green product attributes
  • Unconditional purchase

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Publication date: 1 January 1993

Consumer Perceptions of the Environmental Impact of an Industrial Service

G.M. Bohlen, A. Diamantopoulos and B.B. Schlegelmilch

Aims to redress a research gap on green issues through its focus onconsumer perceptions of environmental nuisances arising in a servicesetting (freight transport)…

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Aims to redress a research gap on green issues through its focus on consumer perceptions of environmental nuisances arising in a service setting (freight transport). Presents the results of the preliminary stage of a large‐scale study, which consisted of semi‐structured personal interviews with members of the general public. Following a descriptive comparison of nuisances arising from road and rail freight transport, tests a number of hypotheses generated from the limited available research on socio‐demographic and situational factors which are likely to impinge on individuals′ perceptions of environmental nuisances.

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 11 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02634509310024155
ISSN: 0263-4503

Keywords

  • Consumer attitudes
  • Freight transport
  • Green issues

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Publication date: 25 January 2013

The effect of environmental concern and scepticism on green purchase behaviour

Tahir Albayrak, Şafak Aksoy and Meltem Caber

The aims of the study are: to compare the environmental concern and scepticism levels of the participants and whether or not they display green purchase behaviour; to…

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Purpose

The aims of the study are: to compare the environmental concern and scepticism levels of the participants and whether or not they display green purchase behaviour; to investigate the influence of environmental concern and scepticism on green purchase behaviour by utilizing the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

Design/methodology/approach

The data were collected from participant and non‐participant customers of the e‐invoicing program of Turk Telecom. Customers were clustered into four groups according to their environmental concerns and scepticism levels.

Findings

Research results show that those customers who have a high level of environmental concern and less sceptical reflect a positive attitude, have a high positive subjective norm and perceived behavioural control that motivates them to have stronger intentions to become e‐invoice subscribers in the near future.

Originality/value

The results found in the paper provide clear evidence supporting the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Turkey. Moreover, while most previous studies have employed undergraduate samples which are not representative of common customers, the present study employed a large and real customer sample which strongly represents customers in general.

Details

Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 31 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02634501311292902
ISSN: 0263-4503

Keywords

  • Environmental concern
  • Scepticism
  • Theory of Planned Behaviour
  • Green purchase
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Turkey

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Publication date: 4 November 2014

Others’ environmental concern as a social determinant of green buying

Laurent Bertrandias and Leila Elgaaied-Gambier

This paper aims to achieve a better understanding of the social dimension underlying green purchasing behavior by assessing the impact of environmental concern ascribed to…

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This paper aims to achieve a better understanding of the social dimension underlying green purchasing behavior by assessing the impact of environmental concern ascribed to relevant others.

Design/methodology/approach

A survey was conducted among 468 French interviewees. Using a scenario, respondents were asked to choose between two similar products: one is very fashionable but harmful to the environment and the other has comparable features with a lower negative impact on the environment. In parallel, respondents had to cite four relevant others and to make several attributions about them. Environmental concern was one of these attributions.

Findings

Ascribed environmental concern increases the probability to choose the product with a low environmental impact over the more harmful alternative. This process is mediated by perceived social risk and self-incongruity associated with the environmentally unfriendly product.

Research limitations/implications

Conclusions are drawn on the basis of a specific choice for a particular product category.

Practical implications

Environmentally responsible consumers should be encouraged to express their convictions publicly within their social network.

Social implications

Consumers are more inclined to adopt an environmental reading of what they plan to buy when they ascribe environmental preoccupations to their referent others either to preserve their social ties or to preserve their self-congruity. This proximity effect should be exploited to promote pro-environmental behaviors.

Originality/value

Most studies on the determinants of green behavior either focus exclusively on individual predispositions or tackle social influence too explicitly. By assessing the effect of ascribed environmental concern instead on individual environmental concern, this research offers an original approach.

Details

Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 31 no. 6/7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-05-2014-0966
ISSN: 0736-3761

Keywords

  • Environment concern
  • Interpersonal influence
  • Pro-environmental behavior
  • Self-congruity
  • Social norms
  • Social risk

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Publication date: 10 July 2017

Moderating and mediating roles of environmental concern and ecotourism experience for revisit intention

Yung-Chuan Huang and Chih-Hsing Sam Liu

This study aims to provide novel insights via a joint investigation of the mediating role of environmental concern and ecotourism experiences. It further explores…

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Purpose

This study aims to provide novel insights via a joint investigation of the mediating role of environmental concern and ecotourism experiences. It further explores environmental concern and image as moderators of the association between tourists’ ecotourism experience and revisit intention.

Design/methodology/approach

The study used a three-way framework which provided novelty ways of combined moderation-mediation tests on a sample of 474 foreign tourists.

Findings

Results show that environmental concern and ecotourism experience mediated the relationships between motivation and revisit intention. The moderating test shows that foreign tourists’ revisit intention and ecotourism experience are highest when environmental concern and image are high.

Practical implications

Results of this study suggest that it may be beneficial to relate resources of tourism’s organization to prepare for potential sustainable requirements and/or to assist tourists to develop positive pro-environment attitudes (such as inspire tourists’ sense of social responsibility to improve environmental quality), which could possibly improve the feelings about the natural environment as serving the public good and may raise concern about environmental protection reasonability for tourists.

Originality/value

This research is the first comprehensive examination of foreign tourists’ pro-environment attitudes and conducts three-way interaction between tourists’ ecotourism experience, image and environmental concern, which may provide a benchmark for future studies.

Details

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-12-2015-0677
ISSN: 0959-6119

Keywords

  • Motivation
  • Image
  • Revisit intention
  • Environment concern
  • Ecotourism experience

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