The Effects of Environmental Concern on Environmentally Friendly Consumer Behavior: An Exploratory Study

Minton, Ann P.; Rose, Randall L.

doi:10.1016/s0148-2963(96)00209-3

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“…Such individuals purchase only natural and eco-friendly products that use biodegradable packaging (Schwartz and Miller, 1991;Minton and Rose, 1997). Literature further suggests that such individuals would not participate in any form of activity that would harm the environment (Schwartz and Miller, 1991;Minton and Rose, 1997).…”

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“…Based on literature on individual behaviour and effective job performance, this study has suggested the use of GPB as a proxy for green performance as effective green behaviour of individuals (Schwartz and Miller, 1991;Minton and Rose, 1997;Albayrak, Caber, Moutinho and Herstein, 2011). The use of GPB as proxy for green performance enable GHRM managers to achieve their key objective of identifying and recruiting potential candidates with reasonable green commitment for a given position for their organization, without their prior engagement (Jabbour et al, 2010).…”

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Green competence framework: evidence from China

Subramanian

Abdulrahman

et al. 2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Recently Human Resources Management (HRM) functions such as recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation are expected in considering environmental management (EM) issues. Environmental protective acts with adequate ecological knowledge and socioeconomic behavior and skills are referred to in this paper as green competencies. However, a systematic approach for developing and understanding key factors that enhance individuals' green competencies is lacking. This study contributes to green human resource literature by integrating environmental consumer behavior literature with traditional skills and competencies literature to help firms to select the right individuals to achieve their environmental goals. Using Robert's competencies framework and structural equation modeling (SEM), this paper empirically examines the influence of individual green competencies on organizations' green practices and performance objectives. Our model is tested using a sample of 1,230 employees working in key industries in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo. The results indicate that acquired green competencies are more positively associated with individuals' green competencies and green behavior. The study empirically demonstrates that verifying acquired green competence attributes such as environmental knowledge, green purchase attitude and intention during employee selection would certainly be helpful for firms to identify individual green performance potential.

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Section: Green Performancementioning

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Section: Green Performancementioning

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Green competence framework: evidence from China

Subramanian

Abdulrahman

et al. 2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Previous studies have found that attitudes are valid predictors of pro-environment behavioral intentions (e.g., Minton and Rose, 1997). For example, a person who demonstrates a positive attitude towards organic food products is more likely to purchase in organic supermarkets.…”

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Explaining pro-environment consumer behavior in air travel

Birgelen

Semeijn

Behrens

2011

Journal of Air Transport Management

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Some airlines and airports have begun offering a voluntary carbon offsetting service. This article examines the behavior of passengers with respect to their preparedness to compensate for CO2 emissions. Responses from an on-line-survey of air travelers suggest severity, self-perception, and importance are positively related to willingness-tocompensate. How passengers perceive their self-effectiveness in reducing CO2 emissions does not affect willingness-to-compensate, but influences likelihood of compensating directly. KEYWORDS:Pro-environment consumer behavior, voluntary carbon offsetting, theory of planned behavior 1.INTRODUCTION Air travel is widely acknowledged to significantly impact global climate through the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide (CO2). With the inclusion of aviation in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) planned for 2012, the air transportation sector "is about to feel the full blast of regulatory heat" (Turner, 2009). Steps have already been taken to improve aircraft technological but measures to modify air travel behavior remains limited still. Airlines and airports have started offering voluntary carbon offsetting schemes to air travelers.Little is known, however, about the acceptance of voluntary carbon offsetting schemes (Hooper et al., 2008). When it comes to pro-environment behavior the theory of planned behavior (TPB) may offer useful insights1. Here we use it to look at the factors * Corresponding author: m.vanbirgelen@fm.ru.nl t The authors are grateful to the editor of JATM and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and constructive critiques. tt This manuscript is based on Pia Behrens' Master thesis (Maastricht University, 2009) 1 It has been used for example for examining pro-environment food consumption (Vermeir and Verbeke, 2006) and consumer behavior pertaining to beverage packaging (Van Birgelen et al., 2009).

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“…The contribution of PN in sustainable behavior may vary between different types of behavior (Bamberg and Schmidt 2003;Kaiser and Scheuthle 2003). PN was successfully added to the TRA in an analysis of intentions to buy environment-friendly products (Minton and Rose 1997). Harland et al (1999) examined predictors of public intention regarding five types of sustainable behavior-car use, and consumption of water, paper, energy, and meat-and four of these types of behavior.…”

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