Business's environmental responsibility in Taiwan ? Moral, legal or negotiated

Sheng, Peihua; Chang, Linda; French, Warren A.

doi:10.1007/bf00871702

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“…For instance, Sheng et al (1994) report that Taiwanese do not tend to recognise their individual responsibility with respect to their country's environmental problems, unless they are constrained by law. Strutton et al (1994) have shown that consumers tend to invoke generally accepted value justifications in order to reduce their culpability and maintain their self-concept in the face of unethical behaviours, like denying one's responsibility because of uncontrollable factors.…”

Section: Justifications For Unethical Consumer Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 98%

Understanding Consumers’ Ethical Justifications: A Scale for Appraising Consumers’ Reasons for Not Behaving Ethically

d’Astous

Legendre²

2008

J Bus Ethics

117

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Section: Justifications For Unethical Consumer Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 98%

Understanding Consumers’ Ethical Justifications: A Scale for Appraising Consumers’ Reasons for Not Behaving Ethically

d’Astous

Legendre²

2008

J Bus Ethics

117

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“…This deduction is supported by the results of a study by Sheng, Chang, and French (1994) who used the DIT with a sample of Taiwanese businesspeople and found that Taiwanese businesspeople focused more on the conventional level than on the postconventional level of MJD. Table 2 also provides the results reported by Ford et al (2000) which contained the DIT data for Japanese procurement executives.…”

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confidence: 72%

An empirical investigation of the moral judgment development of Taiwanese procurement executives

Lin

2009

soc behav pers

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The issue of ethical behavior in procurement has become increasingly critical to many organizations. A sample of 213 procurement executives from large Taiwanese companies was assessed in terms of their moral judgment development measured by the Defining Issues Test (Rest, 1979). The findings indicate that Taiwanese procurement executives focus more on the conventional level than on the postconventional level of moral judgment development. Taiwanese procurement personnel at a higher management level will have higher overall scores for moral judgment development than those at a lower management level, and upper management focus less on mutually satisfying outcomes and group harmonization than do middle or lower levels.

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“…Previous studies by Carrigan and Attalla (2001) and Grappi et al (2017) corroborated the GD justification, concluding that what is legal is socially acceptable to consumers. Studies by Sheng et al (1994) and Vitell and Paolillo (2003) also validated the fact that the consumers felt that there is a strong link between unethical actions and the law, and thus ethics is the responsibility of the government, and this affected their purchase intention of ethical products.…”

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confidence: 77%

Role of justification of unethical behaviour in sustainable fashion consumption among Indian consumers: a parallel mediation approach

Kaur¹,

Gupta

Singh

2023

JCM

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Purpose Sustainable consumption is an important topic for different industries, including the fashion industry. Despite a favourable attitude of consumers towards sustainable products in the fashion industry, the actual purchase by the consumers is limited. Thus, the present study examines sustainable consumption using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). The purpose of this paper is to study the mediating impact of strategies of justification of unethical behaviour on the gap-based relationship between a purchase intention and a purchase decision for a consumer in a sustainable clothing context. Design/methodology/approach For the study, the primary data from 229 graduate-level fashion students enrolled in universities across India has been analyzed with the help of structural equation modelling. Findings The study results have proven that attitudes and subjective norms can positively affect purchase intentions when it comes to purchase of the environmentally sustainable products. Further, economic rationality (ER) and government dependency (GD) partially mediate the purchase intention–behaviour gap of the justification strategies for unethical behaviour. Practical implications The results would be helpful in implementing sustainable clothing consumption among Indian consumers. The study would be beneficial for industry professionals, export houses and scholars to discover possible reasons which can lead to the widening of the intention–behaviour gap when it comes to the purchase of the sustainable clothing consumption for Indian consumers. Critical implications for marketers from the present research assert that ER and GD are important factors that could increase the purchase intention of young consumers towards sustainable clothing. Originality/value The results of the study contribute to the existing literature in a novel way by adding justification strategies for unethical behaviour to the TPB model. This study is innovative as it adds new constructs to the TPB model by including the three justification strategies that people use for unethical consumption behaviour (ER, economic development and GD) to gain insight into why a purchase intention–behaviour gap exists for sustainable clothing.

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Business's environmental responsibility in Taiwan ? Moral, legal or negotiated

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Understanding Consumers’ Ethical Justifications: A Scale for Appraising Consumers’ Reasons for Not Behaving Ethically

Understanding Consumers’ Ethical Justifications: A Scale for Appraising Consumers’ Reasons for Not Behaving Ethically

An empirical investigation of the moral judgment development of Taiwanese procurement executives

Role of justification of unethical behaviour in sustainable fashion consumption among Indian consumers: a parallel mediation approach

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