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Environmental Perception, Ethical Consumer Behavior, and Price Sensitivity: Impact on Using Intention of Eco-Friendly Products

  • Yang, Hoe-Chang;Han, Tae-Jeom
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.10
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - This study aims to identify the effect of corporate eco-friendly marketing, which focuses on corporate social responsibility, on the environment, natural preservation and protection, and environmental concern among consumers. Research design, data, and methodology - A total of 92 valid questionnaires were used for analysis. A structured model was established and a 3-step mediated regression test was employed to see how consumers' perception of ethical consumer behavior and price sensitivity are influential in relation to the impact of consumer's perception of eco-friendliness on the using intention in relation to eco-friendly products. Results - Three factors of eco-friendly perception all have a positive impact on ethical consumer behavior, thus lowering their price sensitivity. In particular, it is found that environmental knowledge and environmental concern are important to promote ethical consumer behavior. Conclusion - It is found that, to increase the using intention of eco-friendly products, an enterprise should practice an eco-friendly marketing strategy, deliver eco-friendly related knowledge, and include contents to allow consumers to take an interest in the environment for effective performance of marketing.

A study on the impact of consumers' psychological discomfort regarding eco-friendly products on their willingness to pay additional prices and the moderating effect of category involvement (친환경 제품에 대한 소비자의 심리적 불편함이 추가가격 지불 의향에 미치는 영향 및 제품군 관여의 조절효과 연구)

  • Eun-Jung Lee
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.253-259
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    • 2024
  • From the consumer's perspective, eco-friendly consumption is still a topic that can cause various psychological discomforts, and psychological discomfort can lower the intention to consume eco-friendly products through negative consumer psychological mechanisms. This study analyzed the influence of psychological discomfort regarding eco-friendly consumption on people's willingness to pay additional prices for eco-friendly products. In addition, we examined the moderating effect of consumers' involvement in the product family in this relationship. As a result of a statistical analysis based on consumer response data obtained from an online survey conducted with 407 American consumers, the level of people's psychological discomfort with eco-friendly consumption is directly related to their willingness to pay additional prices for eco-friendly products. Although it did not have a significant effect, it was confirmed that the influence of psychological discomfort on willingness to pay premium price was significantly different depending on the consumer's level of involvement.

A Study on the Influence of Eco-friendly Agricultural Products on Customer Satisfaction and Behavior Intention in Hotel Chinese Restaurants

  • Kim, Jung Tae;Jang, Hyuk-Rae;Cho, Sung-Ho;Hwang, Il Yeong
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of the study is to analyze the effects of customer satisfaction verses eco-friendly agricultural products (ingredients) awareness factors in luxury hotel Chinese restaurants on hotel image and customer loyalty (repurchase intention). To analyze what kind of effects of customer satisfaction verses eco-friendly agricultural products (ingredients) awareness factors in Chinese restaurants have on hotel image and behavior intention (loyalty), the study identified eco-friendly ingredients awareness factors. The study aims to suggest implications on service strategies and marketing strategies in luxury hotel Chinese restaurants based on the influence of customer satisfaction on hotel image and behavior intention (loyalty) using the identified factors.

A Study on the Influence of National Image on Mongolian Consumers' Repurchase Intention of Cosmetics - Focusing on the mediating effect of perceived quality and eco-friendly product image -

  • Tuvshinbayar, Bolortsetseg;Min Jung, Kang
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.376-382
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the national image on the intention to repurchase Korean cosmetics products from the perspective of consumers. This study investigated the effect of the Korean national image on the repurchase intention through the perceived quality and eco-friendly product image for Mongolian consumers. This study conducted a survey of Mongolian consumers, and the survey was conducted online with a total of 110 people. The analysis method was verified using the SPSS 18 program. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that the national image had a positive and significant effect on Mongolian consumers' intention to repurchase Korean cosmetics. In addition, it was found that perceived quality or ecofriendly product images play a mediating role in the relationship between the national image and the intention to repurchase cosmetics.

A Study on Design Application of Eco-Friendly Integrated Design Process (친환경 통합 디자인 프로세스의 디자인 적용에 관한 연구 -오피스 건물을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Min Gyu;Kang, Hee Seon
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.87-94
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    • 2013
  • This Study, as a Eco-Friendly Design Process of Office for sustainable design, aims to develop a sustainable design process by letting the designers easily approach the concept of Eco-Friendly Design Process and applying this to Eco-Friendly Design Process when the designers perform design. Through a review on simulation, a research was made on the seriousness of environmental problems and control that was caused by design, Environmentally friendly design, sustainability, and sustainable design's background and definition were studied. In order to develop a Eco-Friendly Design Process, an existing review from Building Energy Simulation that proposed about energy environmentally friendly design element and sustainable design element's semantic similarities were restructured as sustainable design element comparative analysis. Restructured sustainable design elements and the relationship between sustainable design elements and the relationship of each product developmental process levels were analyzed. Finally, through clustering, sustainable design guideline were developed. This Eco-Friendly Design Process is expected to be applied to as one of the methods in solving the global environmental issues in design practice.

A Study on the Moderating Effect of Government Support Policy between Eco- Friendly Vehicles Attributes and Consumer Purchasing Attitudes in Service Management Era (서비스경영시대의 친환경자동차 제품속성과 소비자 구매의도 간에서 정부지원정책의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Yim, Ki-Heung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.257-266
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    • 2018
  • The implication of this study is that the development and market participation of the next generation eco - friendly vehicles is accelerating, and consumers 'interest is increasing. Also, the product attributes of environment - friendly vehicles and the government's policy support for the next generation eco - friendly vehicles. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of purchasing behavior of eco-friendly vehicles on the product attributes of eco-friendly vehicles. Economic, image, functionality, and service convenience have positive effects on consumers' purchase intention. As a result of examining the moderating effect of the government support policy between the product attributes of environment - friendly vehicles and the purchase intentions of environment - friendly vehicles, the government or municipal government has no control effect such as vehicle price subsidy, vehicle tax subsidy, Carbon tax support to prevent emissions was found to have a moderating effect of supporting 10,000 won per ton, even if 5,000 won per ton was supported. This suggests that consumers who prefer to buy eco-friendly vehicles are more likely to have environmental factors.

The Effects of Store Environment on Shopping Behavior: The Role of Consumer Idiocentrism and Allocentrism

  • Ryu, Jay-Sang;Bringhurst, Audra
    • Asian Journal of Business Environment
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - The purpose of this research is to identify how idiocentric consumers and allocentric consumers respond to retail store environments and how such responses affect their consumer behaviors in a sustainable consumption setting. Method - Data were collected from 422 U.S. adult consumers via a web-based survey. Two store settings were created, perceptually related (eco-friendly clothing displayed with greenery)or perceptually-unrelated (eco-friendly clothing displayed without greenery), and consumers were asked to take the survey based on the given store setting. Results - Allocentric consumers perceived a product and its display environment were related whereas idiocentric consumers perceived the two were unrelated. Also, the former exhibited higher purchase intentions when the product and store environment were related (eco-friendly clothing displayed with greenery), but the latter did when the two were unrelated (eco-friendly clothing displayed without greenery). Conclusions - This research suggests that retailers should consider consumer self-concept at personal-level when implementing marketing strategies. This research also demonstrates that consumers are influenced by store environment in relation to their self-concept and that self-concept can be temporarily modified by various stimuli such as visual displays.

Green Marketing in the Fashion Industry (패션 산업의 그린마케팅 현황 연구)

  • Sung, Hee-Won;Kim, Eun-Kyeung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.529-539
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    • 2010
  • The environment and green are critical issues for businesses in the $21^{st}$ century. This study examines product assortments of eco-friendly products, green marketing strategies, and the marketability of Trashion products among fashion brands. Data were collected through an interview method from eight fashion brands that were actively conducting green marketing. The general activities of green marketing were to produce eco-friendly products and/or an economical support for environmental groups or green conservation campaigns. Eco-friendly products included organic cotton products, well-being products made of bamboo or beans, goods made of recycled plastic bottles, and Trashion items. The first reason was to improve the brand image, then take social responsibility, and last participate in the environmental movement. However, the price of green products and supplies of eco-friendly fabrics were the most challenging issues for fashion businesses. The marketability of Trashion products was directly opposed and managerial implications for green marketers were discussed.

The Influence of College Students' Consumption Value on Consumer Attitudes Towards Environmental Awareness and Clothing Environmental Behavior (대학생의 소비가치가 환경의식 소비자태도와 환경 의생활행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Eun-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2016
  • The object of this study is to find out the influence of college students' consumption value on consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness and clothing environmental behavior. Questionnaires were administered to 236 college students living in DaeguCity and Kyoungbuk province. Frequency, factor analysis, reliability analysis, regression analysis, and t-test were used for data analysis. Our findings are as follows. Consumption value of college students had factors as differentiated, consumption needs, utility, economies ostentation, others awareness, and belonging. Consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness were found as environmental importance, environmental product purchase, environmental product interest, and environmental action. Clothing environmental behavior were found as up cycle, buying eco-friendly clothing, active participation, saver purchase, and eco-friendly clothing management. The result of this study showed differentiated, others awareness, and belonging had significant effect of environmental product purchase and consumption needs, utility, and belonging had significant effect of environmental action. Differentiated, and others awareness had significant effect of up cycle, buying eco-friendly clothing, active participation, and eco-friendly clothing management. Gender of college students showed significant differences consumption value, consumer attitudes towards environmental awareness, and clothing environmental behavior.

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Impacts of Ethical Consumption Beliefs on Attitudes toward Eco-Friendly Faux Leather Apparel Products and Mediating Roles of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness and Apparel Environmental Knowledge (윤리소비신념이 친환경 인조피혁 의류제품 태도에 미치는 영향과 지각된 소비자 효율 및 의류환경지식의 매개효과)

  • Jung, Hye Jung;Oh, Kyung Wha
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.125-137
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    • 2013
  • This study investigated the conceptual constructs of ethical consumption beliefs and their impacts on the consumer attitudes toward eco-friendly faux leather apparel goods. The mediating roles of perceived consumer effectiveness and apparel environmental knowledge were examined in this research. A survey was conducted on female consumers between the ages of 20 and 50; subsequently, 300 responses were analyzed. The results of this study were follows: 1) The results of factor analysis and the reliability test on ethical consumption beliefs clearly showed factorial structures that include Social Responsibility, Eco-friendly Consumption, Animal Welfare, and Individual Enhancement. 2) The results of the mean scores of ethical consumption beliefs showed that respondents tended to consider Social Responsibility more important than the other three factors. Ethical consumption beliefs showed a significantly positive influence on consumer attitudes toward eco-friendly faux leather apparel products; in addition, Social Responsibility had the highest effect on product attitudes among the four factors of ethical consumption beliefs. 3) The perceived consumer effectiveness and environmental knowledge of apparel had important medicating roles in the relation-ship between ethical consumption beliefs and attitudes towards eco-friendly faux leather apparel products. This study highlighted a potential marketability of eco-friendly faux leather apparel products and that ethical consumption beliefs, perceived consumer effectiveness, and apparel environmental knowledge should be promoted among consumers to increase favorable attitudes towards these products.