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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sandrina Francisca Teixeira, Belem Barbosa, Hugo Cunha, Zaila Oliveira
Summary: This article aims to identify the factors that influence consumers' intention to purchase organic food. It found that attitude towards organic food is the main determinant of purchase intention, while health concerns and perceived quality also have significant impacts on attitude. However, the study did not confirm the effect of environmental concerns on attitude. Managers are recommended to emphasize the health benefits and quality of organic food to foster positive attitudes and leverage purchase intention.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ivana Blesic, Marko D. Petrovic, Tamara Gajic, Tatiana N. Tretiakova, Julia A. Syromiatnikova, Milan Radovanovic, Jovanka Popov-Raljic, Natalia V. Yakovenko
Summary: This study found that personal attitudes towards food waste, perceived behavioral control, environmental attitudes, and hygiene-based food waste all play a role in influencing consumers' food waste behavior in restaurants. This research has practical implications in the hospitality sector.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Inga-Lill Soderberg, Misse Wester, Agnieszka Zalejska Jonsson
Summary: This study aims to investigate factors influencing the recycling behavior of young people and explore their views on barriers to recycling. The survey conducted among residents of student housing in Stockholm, Sweden revealed that positive attitude, personal norms, perceived behavioral control, and perceived convenience of recycling have a positive impact on recycling behavior.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nicole Campos-Arteaga, Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Alexandra Gonzales-Vasquez, Fabrizio Rios-La-Torre, Jaasiel Melillo-Espinoza-Chueca, Maria de Las Mercedes Anderson-Seminario, Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Christian R. Mejia, Jaime A. Yanez
Summary: This study evaluates the antecedents of Italian local wine consumption and finds that purchase intention is related to perceived behavioral control, ethnocentric personality has a positive influence, and cosmopolitan personality has a negative influence. It is also confirmed that personal norms and place identity are related to attitudes toward this behavior.
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Food Science & Technology
Giulia Sesini, Greta Castellini, Paola Iannello, Linda Lombi, Edoardo Lozza, Luigi Lucini, Guendalina Graffigna
Summary: The demand for organic food has increased in recent years, as well as the requests for food authentication and safety. Omics technologies can effectively respond to these needs, enhance the transmission of food safety information, and differentiate between organic and conventional products. However, there is limited knowledge about consumers' perception of this novel certification approach.
FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Nana Niu, Wei Fan, Mengmeng Ren, Mei Li, Yiping Zhong
Summary: The present study used the green consumption paradigm to investigate the internal mechanisms of pro-environmental behavior at different personal costs and the role of social and personal norms in promoting individual pro-environmental behavior. The results showed that pro-environmental behavior decreased as personal costs increased. However, social norms effectively promoted individuals' pro-environmental behavior, and personal norms mediated this effect at high personal costs.
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Agronomy
Meike Rombach, David L. Dean, Tim Baird, Jacob Kambuta
Summary: This study provides insights and best-practice recommendations for marketing managers in the US food retail sector and the horticultural industry. An online survey utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior as a conceptual framework explores the factors influencing US consumers' intentions to purchase locally grown apples, highlighting the significance of behavioral, normative, and control beliefs in shaping attitudes. Subjective norms and perceived behavioral control are identified as key drivers of behavioral intention.
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Business
Leonidas C. Leonidou, Pantelitsa P. Eteokleous, Anna-Maria Christofi, Nikolaos Korfiatis
Summary: This study uses meta-analysis to extract results from 149 studies and finds that individuals with strong environmental, health, and safety awareness are more likely to buy organic products. The study also explores the moderating role of cultural dimensions on the relationships between constructs. Additionally, it reveals that research focusing on organic food has stronger effects on construct associations compared to non-food products.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Food Science & Technology
Sylvain Charlebois, Amy Hill, Melanie Morrison, Janele Vezeau, Janet Music, Kydra Mayhew
Summary: This study aimed to measure the price competitiveness of products certified by the Aliments du Quebec program. The results challenge the popular belief that local food products are often more expensive, as in most subcategories, locally certified products were either as expensive or cheaper than comparator products.
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Business
Agnieszka Malecka, Maciej Mitrega, Barbara Mroz-Gorgon, Gregor Pfajfar
Summary: This study focuses on the cognitive factors that drive collaborative consumption, conceptualizing it as a social innovation adopted by consumers due to their pro-social thinking towards consumption process and outcomes. Pro-social factors such as trust, sociability, and novelty seeking, along with social norms, contribute to collaborative consumption intention. These findings are important for policy makers and businesses in the CEE region.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sara Brune, Whitney Knollenberg, Kathryn Stevenson, Carla Barbieri
Summary: Encouraging sustainable behaviors in food choices is crucial for the sustainability of food systems. This study expands the understanding of sustainable behavioral change by examining engagement in local food systems through agritourism experiences. The findings suggest that activating moral considerations and subjective norms can motivate public engagement in local food, while easing perceived barriers can promote private behaviors. Agritourism experiences are effective in modifying behavioral antecedents and should provide holistic experiences to facilitate deeper engagement with local food.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ting Li, Ting Xu, Yan Liang, Wei Luo, Jin Zhang
Summary: In this study, the extended Value-Identity-Personal (VIP) norm model was used to analyze the influencing factors of Pro-Environmental Behavior (PEB) among college students in Xi'an, China, with the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as an example. The findings showed that personal environmental social responsibility and personal norms have a significant direct impact on PEB, and personal norms are strongly influenced by environmental personal social responsibility. This study provides viable countermeasures and suggestions for college students to improve PEB.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Engineering, Environmental
Jessica M. Oehman, Callie W. Babbitt, Carli Flynn
Summary: This study seeks to understand the beliefs, experiences, and barriers related to household food waste separation. The results indicate that attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control are positively associated with the intent to separate household food waste. However, concerns about odor, pests, and messiness negatively influence behavioral intent.
RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
(2022)
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Information Science & Library Science
Yangzi Wu, Xiaoli Hu, Jiuchang Wei, Dora Marinova
Summary: This study investigates how employees' attitudes, social pressure and job characteristics influence the intention to share knowledge, finding that attitudes, social norms, and job autonomy positively impact knowledge-sharing intentions. Job autonomy also acts as a moderating factor between perceived social norms and knowledge-sharing intentions.
JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kathleen Jacobs
Summary: This study examines the psychological factors that influence consumers' preference for product longevity in purchasing electrical home appliances. The research combines Lancaster's consumer theory, theory of planned behavior, and theory of basic human values to identify the motivational factors behind this preference. The findings suggest that consumers' preference for long-lasting products is driven by a positive attitude, but only when it is driven by personal gains rather than environmental considerations. Additionally, biospheric values enhance both types of attitudes, while stimulation values inhibit them; hedonic values only enhance attitude based on personal gains.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marcus Brandenburg, Tim Gruchmann, Nelly Oelze
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nelly Oelze, Tim Gruchmann, Marcus Brandenburg
Article
Management
Ahmed Hussein Ali, Ani Melkonyan, Bernd Noche, Tim Gruchmann
Summary: A new scale for evaluating sustainable logistics service quality (SLSQ) in LSP companies in Egypt is proposed, based on literature review and interviews. The research contributes to theory by proposing a new framework and to practice by linking the framework with Egyptian law, while also discussing limitations and potential future research directions.