Inclusion of Life Cycle Thinking in a Sustainability-Oriented Consumer’s Typology: A Proposed Methodology and an Assessment Tool

Lewandowska, Anna; Witczak, Joanna; Giungato, Pasquale; Dierks, Christian; Kurczewski, P.; Pawlak-Lemańska, Katarzyna

doi:10.3390/su10061826

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“…Not only that, but the newly deployed strategies should result in increased consumer benefits [6]. This means simultaneously adding new channels to existing ones to remove initial uncertainties and barriers in the purchase process for consumers and getting a detailed comparison of the implications to adding either online or offline channels for retailers [7]. This strategy should allow retailers to get their products (any category) to consumers in the most convenient and cost-effective way [1].…”

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Retailer–Consumer Sustainable Business Environment: How Consumers’ Perceived Benefits Are Translated by the Addition of New Retail Channels

2018

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In the current era, consumers are living in a multi-channel shopping environment. Retailers are expanding their business channels to get the most out of their ongoing multi-channel businesses and to create a sustainable shopping environment for consumers. The extant literature is quite elaborative about the impact of new online channels on retailers, but a very limited part of the said literature discusses the impact of adding both new online/offline channels to the retailers’ existing business channels and the perceived benefits they create for consumers. This paper makes the comparison of multi-channel additions and their impacts on consumer benefits in creating a sustainable retailer–consumer business environment. This dimension of research is quite new regarding the subject of multi-channel shopping. In this paper, a simulated experimental design is adopted to analyze the impact of the multi-channel structure with a mix of different product types (experience and search) and the perceived benefit to consumers (perceived variety, perceived convenience, and perceived risk). The results show that, compared to the newly added offline channels, newly added online channels can make consumers more aware of the overall variety, increase perceived convenience, and reduce perceived risk. However, for retailers selling search products, the newly added online channel does not create any significant difference to the consumers’ overall perceived variety of the retailers.

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Retailer–Consumer Sustainable Business Environment: How Consumers’ Perceived Benefits Are Translated by the Addition of New Retail Channels

2018

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“…, Chhetri, et al (2009a),Seegebarth et al (2016),Nepomuceno and Laroche (2015),Chieh-Wen et al (2008),Cowles and Crosby (1986),Boujbel and d'Astous (2012),Chhetri et al (2009b),Rich et al (2017), Peyer et al (2017), Shama (1988,Lewandowska et al (2018),Erdoǧmuş and Karapinar (2015),Pestle et al …”

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Voluntary simplicity: A literature review and research agenda

Rebouças

Soares

2020

Int J Consumer Studies

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Voluntary simplicity (VS) is a lifestyle focused on seeking a simple life by reducing consumption and other practices. This systematic literature review aims to analyse and critically discuss the state of the art of VS. This review provides a categorization scheme of VS and analyses: the number of studies and year of publication; journals, number of citations and research areas; study location; VS definitions; types of studies; and research methods. By providing a map of existing research, the paper contributes to the clarification of the VS construct and to the assessment, synthesis and identification of research gaps, and opportunities for further research. VS implications for theory, practice and policy are discussed within the context of consumption/ anti-consumption.

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“…Therefore, as Lewandowska et al (2018) noted "consumer power," if directed correctly, could be able to make a "construction" by insignificant increments and to constitute a basis for conditioning the imperative of sustainability in everyday life. In this context, a vital question is what "everyday sustainability" means.…”

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“…In this context, a vital question is what "everyday sustainability" means. Sustainability itself is a complex and multicomponent concept founded on the assumption that meeting human needs and achieving economic development should be made by ensuring a balance between economic, social, and environmental systems (Lewandowska et al, 2018).…”

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Sustainable Development as a Factor Differentiating Consumer Behavior: The Case of Poland

Maciejewski¹,

Malinowska²,

Kucharska³

et al. 2021

ERSJ

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The study employed the online survey technique. In order to determine the types of consumers, 18 diagnostic variables characterizing consumer behavior in the context of sustainable development, including sustainable consumption, were used. The type extraction was carried out in two steps. The first was a cluster analysis conducted with the hierarchical Ward method with the square of the Euclidean distance, and the second was a non-hierarchical cluster analysis adopting the k-means method. Findings: As a result of the conducted analyses, four relatively homogeneous types of consumers were distinguished based on their behaviors that fit into the concept of sustainable development, including consumption. The types are: Apologists, Hedonists, Active when necessary, Moderately involved. Practical Implications: The types of consumers identified and described in the paper may constitute the basis for market segmentation for firms offering consumer goods and services. In addition, the presented results of research conducted in Poland may constitute the basis for carrying out similar research in other European countries. Originality/value: In the case of Poland, there is a lack of knowledge about the types of consumers as regards their behavior in the context of sustainable development, including sustainable consumption, it can therefore be assumed that the research results contribute to the theory of consumer behavior.

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Inclusion of Life Cycle Thinking in a Sustainability-Oriented Consumer’s Typology: A Proposed Methodology and an Assessment Tool

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

Retailer–Consumer Sustainable Business Environment: How Consumers’ Perceived Benefits Are Translated by the Addition of New Retail Channels

Retailer–Consumer Sustainable Business Environment: How Consumers’ Perceived Benefits Are Translated by the Addition of New Retail Channels

Voluntary simplicity: A literature review and research agenda

Sustainable Development as a Factor Differentiating Consumer Behavior: The Case of Poland

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