Residents' behaviour as a function of cognitive appraisals and affective responses toward a petrochemical industrial complex

Navarro, Miguel Angel López; Llorens-Monzonís, Jaume; Tortosa-Edo, Vicent

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.03.071

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“…First, convergent validity requires a factor loading of greater than 0.500, but 0.498 was accepted as approximate to the threshold of 0.500 and was highly significant (p < 0.001). In addition, the average variance extracted (AVE) should be above 0.500 for all latent variables, which says that at least 50% of measurement variance is explained [71]. Table 2 shows that all AVEs ranged from 0.511 to 0.813.…”

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Residents’ Green Purchasing Intentions in a Developing-Country Context: Integrating PLS-SEM and MGA Methods

Wang

Sun

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This paper aims to examine the determinants of green purchasing intentions among different resident groups in a developing-country context. We first expand the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and build a theoretical model based on green purchasing intention, including attitude, perceived behavioural control, subjective norms, environmental concern, habit, and socio-demographic characteristics (i.e., age, gender, residential area, and educational level). Following this, we collect 552 questionnaires from residents in Tianjin Municipality, China. We use partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to analyse the green purchasing intention of the population sample and then employ a multi-group analysis (MGA) to explore the group differences in residents' green purchasing intention. The results show that green purchasing intention is significantly and positively influenced by attitude, perceived behavioural control, subjective norms, and environmental concern but not by habit. The relationship chain of environmental concern→subjective norms→purchasing intention is the strongest. The results of the MGA show that for residential-area groups, the relationships between attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and habits and purchasing intention differ significantly between the downtown group and the outside-the-city group. For the educational-level groups, the relationship between environmental concern and subjective norms differs significantly between the high-education group and the low-education group. Finally, these findings contribute to the literature on the TPB model on green purchasing intention and provide some suggestions for the local government and green marketers.

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Residents’ Green Purchasing Intentions in a Developing-Country Context: Integrating PLS-SEM and MGA Methods

Wang

Sun

et al. 2019

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“…Research on the relationship between industry and local communities has also looked into the dual role industries play in sustaining local economies and influencing people's quality of life (e.g. Castán-Broto, 2013;López-Navarro et al, 2016). The abovementioned study found that residents near the Tarragona petrochemical complex had more positive perceptions in both dimensions (higher economic benefits and lower risk); the Tarragona residents also reported higher levels of trust in the way firms manage risk, a variable traditionally associated with risk perception in the literature (Siegrist, 2000;Ter Huurne and Gutteling, 2009).…”

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Firm-local community relationships in polluting industrial agglomerations: How firms' commitment determines residents' perceptions

Navarro

Tortosa-Edo

Castán-Broto

2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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This research contributes to the literature on the management of firm-local community relationships in polluting industrial agglomerations. Taking as reference a previous quantitative study on residents' perceptions of economic benefits and risk in the vicinity of two Spanish petrochemical complexes (Castellón and Tarragona), the aim of this paper is to analyse how companies in the two areas have built and manage, individually and collectively, their relations with the local community, while assessing the extent to which a more committed management has resulted in a more favourable perception by the public. For this purpose, we conducted indepth interviews with managers of the main companies on the two sites. The results show different patterns of behaviour by firms in the two industrial agglomerations. Companies located in the area of Tarragona, where citizens' perceptions were more favourable, have historically been more committed to building stronger socioeconomic links with the local community and encouraging a sense of community, and to making greater efforts to engage local residents through a process of dialogue. Moreover, the existence of a collective strategy in Tarragona, coordinated through a local industry association, has also played an important role in facilitating the industry's relationship with the local community. The findings of the study suggest the need to consider the industrial agglomeration and the firms' collective actions in research on relationships with the local community alongside actions by individual companies.

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“…One possible reason why people attribute greater importance to negative events may be because of their extreme aversion to losses and costs (Kahneman and Tversky, 1984). In this vein, and in relation to the petrochemical industry, López-Navarro et al (2016) showed that residents prioritise environmental issues over economic ones in their behavioural intentions, thus endorsing the argument that the damage of a loss (environmental costs) tends to outweigh the benefits (economic consequences). Apart from the relative importance of both factors, recall that the results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed a negative correlation between judgements of risk and benefit, a correlation already highlighted in previous studies (e.g., Alhakami and Slovic, 1994;Siegrist et al, 2000).…”

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The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members

Navarro

Tortosa-Edo

2023

Local Environment

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Although environmental activists play an important role in addressing local environmental injustices, they find it difficult to legitimise their activities. They are frequently challenged by political and business forces on the grounds that they are raising barriers to local economic development and are often regarded as irrational or hysterical. In this study we analyse the legitimacy conferred on local environmental organisations by residents living near a polluting industrial site. Considering an individual's judgement of legitimacy as an attitude and drawing on the social psychological and risk-benefit analysis literatures, we define a model that explains how individuals' beliefs and perceptions about local environmental organisations and their context (in terms of the local industry risk-benefit controversy), together with personal environmental beliefs, influence their assessments of legitimacy. Results show that individuals' legitimacy judgements of local environmental organisations are directly influenced by beliefs about their credibility and the risk perceptions associated with the industrial area, and indirectly affected by personal environmental beliefs.

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Residents' behaviour as a function of cognitive appraisals and affective responses toward a petrochemical industrial complex

Cited by 16 publications

References 112 publications

Residents’ Green Purchasing Intentions in a Developing-Country Context: Integrating PLS-SEM and MGA Methods

Residents’ Green Purchasing Intentions in a Developing-Country Context: Integrating PLS-SEM and MGA Methods

Firm-local community relationships in polluting industrial agglomerations: How firms' commitment determines residents' perceptions

The legitimisation of local environmental organisations by community members

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