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GREEN CONSUMERISM
Perspectives, Sustainability,
and Behavior
GREEN CONSUMERISM
Perspectives, Sustainability,
and Behavior
Edited by
Ruchika Singh Malyan
Punita Duhan
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
seminars and conferences. She has published more than 12 research papers
with prestigious national and international publishers such as Sage, Palgrave,
Springer, IGI global, Bloomsbury, etc. She has published two edited books
titled “Managing Public Relations and Brand Image through Social Media”
and “Radical Reorganization of Existing Work Structures through Digitali-
zation” with IGI Global. One more book titled “M-commerce: Experiencing
the phygital Retail” is being published by Apple Academic Press, Taylor &
Francis Group. She is also on editorial board of peer reviewed prestigious
journals. Besides, she has been actively involved in curriculum develop-
ment and e-content development of various universities, National Institute
of open schooling, Central Board of Secondary Education and Technical
Education Departments of Delhi and Haryana state in management area.
She has attended more than 30 training programs and workshops and has
organized around 10 seminars/conferences/workshops.
CONTENTS
2. Green Pricing: The Journey Until Now and the Road Ahead ...... 21
Anjali Karol and C. Mashood
Anitha Acharya
Department of Human Resources, IBS, a constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University,
Hyderabad, India
José Álvarez-García
Department of Financial Economics and Accounting of the University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
Richa Dahiya
Department of Management Studies, SRM University, Sonepat, Haryana, India
Deepa
KIET School of Management, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Pinaki Dey
Department of Biotechnology, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Geetika Gupta
Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhadson Road,
Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Manish Gupta
Department of Human Resources, IBS, a Constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University,
Hyderabad, India
Om Jee Gupta
Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U. P, India
Prateek Gupta
KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, U. P, India
Siddharth Jain
Department of Civil Engineering, KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, U. P, India
Anjali Karol
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
Pradeep Kautish
College of Business Management, Economics and Commerce, Mody University of Science and
Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan
Chanchal Kumar
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
xii List of Contributors
Madan Lal
Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
C. Mashood
SPI Global, Chennai, India
Nittala Rajyalakshmi
Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh, India
Sumit Roy
Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
S. N. Sahdeo
Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Nitika Sharma
Department of Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Nomita Sharma
Department of Management Studies, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Anurag Singh
Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U. P, India
Kunal Sinha
Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Jharkhand, India
Harsh Tullani
Department of Management Studies, SRM University, Sonepat, Haryana, India
George Varghese
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
Dharmavaram Vijaylakshmi
Gayatri Vidya Parishad, Gayatri Valley, Rushikonda, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Lakshmi Viswanathan
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
LIST OF REVIEWERS
Anitha Acharya
Department of Human Resources, IBS, a constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University,
Hyderabad, India
Prachi Aggarwal
Meerabai Institute of Technology, Directorate of Training and Technical Education, New Delhi, India
José Álvarez-García
Department of Financial Economics and Accounting of the University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain
C. Mashood
SPI Global, Chennai, India
Geetika Gupta
Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhadson Road,
Patiala, Punjab 147004, India
Manish Gupta
Department of Human Resources, IBS, a Constituent of IFHE, Deemed to be University,
Hyderabad, India
Om Jee Gupta
Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U. P, India
Siddharth Jain
Department of Civil Engineering, KIET Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, U. P, India
Anjali Karol
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
Pradeep Kautish
College of Business Management, Economics and Commerce, Mody University of Science and
Technology, Lakshmangarh, Sikar, Rajasthan
Chanchal Kumar
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Sumit Roy
Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
S. N. Sahdeo
Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Nitika Sharma
Department of Commerce, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
xiv List of Reviewers
Nomita Sharma
Department of Management Studies, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Anurag Singh
Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U. P, India
Kunal Sinha
Department of Management, Birla Institute of Technology, Jharkhand, India
Harsh Tullani
Department of Management Studies, SRM University, Sonepat, Haryana, India
George Varghese
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
Lakshmi Viswanathan
Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai, India
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Today, the world is in need of new decisions and innovations, which has led to
a green marketing environment and the creation of a new market condition to
the potential buyers. Both marketers and consumers are nowadays focusing
on green products and services. Companies are adopting green marketing
practices and are producing green products that have fewer harmful effects
on the environment than conventional products. Consumers are becoming
more and more aware of the environmental problems and are actively trying
to reduce their impact on the environment by purchasing green products and
moving towards a greener lifestyle.
Additionally, strategic marketing actions of companies target their prod-
ucts and services to these kinds of consumer groups to gain market share
and minimize their production costs. Green consumerism creates a balance
between the expectations of consumer behavior and business profit motives.
This book is a strenuous effort by the editors to understand the area of
green consumer behavior in a versatile manner. This book enables readers
to comprehend the concept of green consumer behavior, which has led to
various green marketing initiatives being taken by companies. This book
puts together the work of researchers and consultants working in this field
from across the world.
Overall, this book meets the needs of researchers, academicians, profes-
sionals, and students working in the domain of sustainable development,
green consumer behavior, green products and methods, ecological develop-
ment, and so forth. This book will help develop the eco-literacy of people
working in this area. It will prove to be an excellent reference resource and
a handbook for detailed and up-to-date knowledge about green consumer
behavior. Editors Ruchika Singh Malyan and Punita Duhan deserve to be
congratulated for this sincere academic endeavor that covers the various
facets of green marketing in a comprehensive manner.
Prof. B. K. Punia
Vice Chancellor,
Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak – 124001 (Haryana), India
PREFACE
The idea of green consumerism is very important in this decade and is popular
among many sections of society in an effort to save the planet Earth. The
world over, economic development has come at the cost of the environment.
Green consumerism is a movement, expanding rapidly, to encourage people
to buy products that are considered environmentally friendly. The needs of the
consumers are evolving, and brand loyalty is being continuously redefined.
Nowadays, consumers are taking responsibility and doing the right
thing as consumer awareness and motivation continue to drive change in
the marketplace. Also, companies are integrating appropriate green strate-
gies into their operational activities, product development processes, and
marketing activities to achieve a competitive advantage in saturated markets.
This helps companies gain market share and minimize their production costs.
Therefore, green consumerism has been increasingly promoting the prac-
tice of purchasing products and services produced in a way that minimizes
social and/or environmental damage. It also creates a balance between the
expectations of consumer behavior and business profit motives.
Accordingly, this book aims to understand the importance of promoting
green products and then tries to explain consumers’ buying intentions and
decisions in respect to green or ecologically friendly products under the
consumer behavior theory. This publication will be beneficial for academi-
cians, researchers, practitioners, and students studying green marketing and
for usage by marketers and consumers.
The editors’ objective, while proposing this book, was to consolidate
the contemporary academic and business research. The editors have made a
meticulous effort to present up-to-date research related to green marketing
in a comprehensive manner and to provide some ideas for future research
avenues. Some of the broad areas this book caters to are green pricing, green
consumer behavior, various dimensions of consumer purchase intentions,
sustainable marketing, innovation techniques used to go green, eco-aware-
ness, and other ongoing developments in this rapidly expanding area.
The book has been organized in the following three sections:
Section I: Green Marketing Practices: Different Perspectives
Section II: Sustainability Aspects of Green Marketing
Section III: Ecological Dimensions of Green Consumer Behavior
xxiv Preface
desires which, in turn, are delivered in the changing needs of the consumers.
A model of consumer behavior has been proposed by the authors, which
consists of four factors. It can be adopted by manufacturers, companies,
and marketers of green products. They can make use of the model while
framing strategies for green products. The application of the model will help
in the appropriate assessment and evaluation process so as to understand the
dynamics of consumer behavior.
Chapter 5 talks about green practices that can be followed for a greener
living. The authors say that awareness about green practices is progress itself.
Therefore, educating oneself and others holds the key to a paradigm shift
from business to a one planet living. The authors also suggest the mantra
of reuse, reduce, and recycle, which, if followed religiously, would reduce
our carbon imprints on the planet. With certain limitations, there are various
opportunities discussed for the eco-entrepreneurs. They are those business
professionals who keep the concept of going green close to their heart and
central to their business, along with the end goal of profit. Eco-entrepreneurs
have enormous uncaptured and unexplored markets available to them, and
they can certainly do well if they can offer green products that are superior
to their nongreen alternatives.
Chapter 6 explains the determinants of consumer purchase intention for
solar products in Varanasi city (India). This study is aimed at solar products
that are green products and are used for conservation of resources. Even
after the gigantic promotion of solar products usage, the growth of the solar
product market is very slow. The authors have investigated the key factors
that influence the purchase intention of consumers for solar products. The
authors suggest that if similar research is conducted in other states as well,
marketers and policymakers will be able to serve consumers in a better way
and can generate better demand for solar products.
Chapter 7 explores a wide range of literature on environmental concern
by synthesizing consumer marketing domain and perspectives of corpora-
tions on the issue of environmentally conscious consumer behavior and
green marketing. The author has analyzed the issue by conducting in-depth
research using various statistical tools. The implications derived from the
present study have an impact on a number of marketing-related areas. The
results indicate that consumers in India have a positive attitude toward envi-
ronmental concern, they demand green products, and they attempt to figure
out the impact of their consumption on environmental well-being.
Chapter 8 offers an important insight as to how a consumer derives trust
from brand associations. The authors have explored the relationship between
green brand association and green trust to achieve green competitive
xxvi Preface
NOTAS DE RODAPÉ:
Na cathedral de Lisboa
Sinto sinos repicar:
Serão annos de princeza?
D’algum santo o festejar?
É a rainha que se parte
Té ás terras de Thomar.
..............................
Em vez das armas antigas
Dos nobres valentes Paes,
Na fachada, sobre o portico,
Vêem-se hoje as dos Cabraes
Que em seu campo ensanguentado
Por brazão tém tres punhaes.
E o Senhor decretou
Exterminio á geração
Sobre essa raça maldita!
3.—A MARIA-DA-FONTE