Heterogeneity analysis of the effects of technology progress on carbon intensity in China

Li, Ke; Lin, Boqiang

doi:10.1108/ijccsm-05-2015-0053

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“…Green economy performance is defined as the efficiency of energy usage and pollutant emissions, while green productivity growth can be measured as the dynamic changes in energy and environmental performance [13][14][15]. Data envelop analysis (DEA) is a powerful tool for assessing energy and environmental performance.…”

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Green Economy Performance and Green Productivity Growth in China’s Cities: Measures and Policy Implication

Lin

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Resource depletion and environmental degradation have become serious challenges for China's sustainable development. This paper constructs indicators to assess China's green economy performance and green productivity growth, in which economic expansion, resource conservation and environmental protection need to be incorporated simultaneously. For this purpose, we combine non-radial directional distance function and meta-frontier Malmquist productivity to develop the indicators. The methodology also allows for the decomposition of driving forces of China's green economy. Moreover, the dataset employed in this paper allows for the evaluation of 275 cities in China during the period 2003-2012. The main findings are as follows. First, most of China's cities did not perform efficiently in terms of the green economy, with an average score of only 0.233. Second, the growth rate of green productivity is slower than real GDP, and the green productivity growth in China is only moderate. Third, innovation is the main driving force of China's green productivity growth, but the central region lags behind when it comes to green innovation. Fourth, artificial local protectionism and transport limitations impede the progress of cities that perform ineffectively in the green economy. Based on our empirical findings, we provide policy implications and suggestions for enhancing China's green economy performance and productivity growth.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Green Economy Performance and Green Productivity Growth in China’s Cities: Measures and Policy Implication

Lin

2016

Sustainability

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“…The emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is amongst the main causes of global warming. Ample literature on carbon emission is available (Li and Lin, 2016; Jones, 2014; Du et al , 2016; Renukappa et al , 2013), and also on responsible purchasing (Winter and Lasch, 2016; Mont and Leire, 2009). Reducing energy consumption is one of the appropriate ways to mitigate the threats of global warming.…”

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An empirical study of consumers intention to purchase energy efficient appliances

Waris

Hameed

2020

SRJ

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical framework of consumers’ purchase intention of energy efficient home appliances. Design/methodology/approach Non-probability quota based on age and education and purposive sampling technique have been used to assess data collected by a questionnaire survey. Findings The findings of the study reveal that consumers’ knowledge of eco-labels, environmental concern and perceived consumer effectiveness are the important predictors of purchase intention. However, the positive relationship between green trust and products’ functional value was found insignificant. It is believed that consumers’ are skeptical about products’ functional benefits. Research limitations/implications Although this study has presented a holistic approach to assess consumer purchase intention for energy-efficient home appliances, there are some limitations of the current study. First, this study has focused on consumer intention to purchase energy-efficient home appliances rather than actual purchase of appliances. Ajzen (1991) argued that intention is the accurate and immediate measure of actual, but gaps exist between intention and the actual behavior of the consumers (Ajzen and Fishbein, 1980). Consumers’ intentions may not always result in actual behavior. Thus, to expand research applicability, researchers should include actual behavior of consumers by conducting interviews or collecting data from the same consumers after an interval of three to six months. Second, the study has focused on consumers’ psychographic variables, there may be many other factors such as technological variables, government and pressure group influence and media impact on consumer intention to purchase energy-efficient home appliances. Future studies can integrate the impact of these potential variables on consumer purchase intention of energy-efficient home appliances with the same model. The third limitation is related to the methodology of this study, the quantitative method has been used in this study. Future studies may use qualitative and mixed methods to better understand consumers’ inclination of purchase intention of energy-efficient home appliances in Pakistan. Besides, a qualitative study will be helpful to explore new variables that are essential in the decision-making of consumers for the purchase of energy-efficient home appliances in Pakistan. Pakistan is a developing country where the majority of the people are belonging to the middle-class; there may be many other important factors that affect consumers’ purchase intention of energy-efficient home appliances. Therefore, an in-depth qualitative study would be helpful to explore those variables in the context of a developing country. Practical implications Energy consumption has posed serious threats to the sustainability of the environment and endangered the lives of many species across the globe. Environmental degradation due to unsustainable consumptions has provided ample opportunities to the marketers that led to the development of sustainable products such as energy-efficient home appliances. In this study, the antecedent of purchase intention of energy-efficient appliances includes attitude, functional values, perceived consumer effectiveness, consumers’ knowledge of eco-labels, environmental concern and green trust. Although researchers have extended TBP to predict consumers’ purchase intention of energy-efficient appliances, studies lack to provide a holistic view from consumers’ perspective. Consumers’ concern for the safety of the environment depicts consumers tendency to purchase environmentally friendly products and promote less hazardous products. Marketers should incorporate environmentally friendly benefits to the product that serve to attract maximum consumers and maintain harmony with the environment. Consumers’ knowledge of eco-labels, green trust and functional values are a vital construct that needs focus in term of the energy-efficient appliances purchase decision. Eco-labels are one of the emerging marketing tools that serve to guide consumers related to products environmentally friendly attributes and contribute to the acceptability of products. Marketers can use eco-labels to differentiate green products from conventional and establishes consumers’ trust in product performance. Originality/value This study is relevant to energy-efficient home appliances. Systematic literature of previous studies suggested the need to conduct and examine the antecedents of energy-efficient home appliances in developing markets. This research highlights that perceived consumer effectiveness is the most influencing factor affecting intention. The implications of this study would be helpful in understanding consumers’ behavior toward the purchase of green products in developing markets.

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“…Environmental protection is a pressing concern for the entire globe. There is a rich body of literature on low-carbon emission (Bord et al, 2000;Renukappa et al, 2013;Jones, 2014;Li and Lin, 2016;Du et al, 2016), green manufacturing (Montalvo, 2008;Deif, 2011;Bhattacharya et al, 2015), sustainability strategies (Law and Gunasekaran, 2012;Mangla et al, 2013;Harik et al, 2015), responsible manufacturing (Bazan et al, 2017), environment management (Massoud et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2009), responsible purchasing (Mont and Leire, 2009;Winter and Lasch, 2016), environment-friendly technology (Luken et al, 2008;Gutowski et al, 2005), product recovery (Kapetanopoulou and Tagaras, 2011), etc. Ultimately, the aim of all these studies is related to the central theme of protecting the environment and building environmental consciousness (ECO).…”

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Dynamics of environmental consciousness and green purchase behaviour: an empirical study

Mishal

Dubey

Gupta

et al. 2017

IJCCSM

140

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Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between environmental consciousness (ECO), green purchase attitude (GPA), green purchase intention (GPI), perceived customer effectiveness (PCE), green behaviour (GRB) and green purchase behaviour (GPB). Based on the statistical analyses, this paper offers some further research directions to advance the extant literature. Design/methodology/approach-The theoretical model is firmly grounded in extant literature. To test the study hypotheses, the authors have developed a survey instrument following a two-stage process. The constructs were first operationalized by the authors and then pre-tested by experts. Dillman's (2007) guidelines were then followed to gather data. Finally, the theoretical model was tested using multivariate statistical tools. Findings-Results indicate that ECO has an influence on GPA and PCE; GPA has an influence on PCE and GRB; GPI has an influence on PCE; and GRB has an influence on GPB. Environmental benefit still ranks at the sixth position among eight product-selection criteria, as is evident from qualitative in-depth interviews indicating a primarily rationalistic and not an altruistic purchase approach. The gap in translation of ECO into GB and GPB can be attributed to costliness, non-availability with less variety, lack of brand reputation of green products and budget constraints for customers. Research limitations/implications-The study faces the limitation of generalizability of the results because it was carried out in a particular state in India; it may not be the perception of the country as a whole. The bias owing to social desirability, selective memory and telescoping with the use of self-reported data could also be a limitation for the current empirical study. Originality/value-This study aimed to extend pro-environmental behaviour studies beyond developed countries and to empirically validate the models built on the theory of ECO leading to GPB, especially for India, a rising market. A novel approach to empirically discuss the situational and market factors will provide a much-needed thrust for research on these lines.

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Heterogeneity analysis of the effects of technology progress on carbon intensity in China

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

Green Economy Performance and Green Productivity Growth in China’s Cities: Measures and Policy Implication

Green Economy Performance and Green Productivity Growth in China’s Cities: Measures and Policy Implication

An empirical study of consumers intention to purchase energy efficient appliances

Dynamics of environmental consciousness and green purchase behaviour: an empirical study

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