The Role of the Dominant Social Paradigm in the Quality of Life/Environmental Interface

Kilbourne, William E.

doi:10.1007/s11482-006-9004-0

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“…Caring for the natural environment, as Kilbourne (2006) notes, can be based on three types of value: intrinsic, instrumental, and aesthetic (also see Wapner and Matthew 2009). Nature or the ecosystem is seen as having intrinsic value in the deep ecology tradition (Leopold 1989;Naess 1990).…”

Section: Caring For Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Mindful consumption: a customer-centric approach to sustainability

Sheth

Sethia

Srinivas

2010

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

874

688

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How effectively business deals with the challenges of sustainability will define its success for decades to come. Current sustainability strategies have three major deficiencies: they do not directly focus on the customer, they do not recognize the looming threats from rising global over-consumption, and they do not take a holistic approach. We present a framework for a customer-centric approach to sustainability. This approach recasts the sustainability metric to emphasize the outcomes of business actions measured holistically in term of environmental, personal and economic well-being of the consumer. We introduce the concept of mindful consumption (MC) as the guiding principle in this approach. MC is premised on a consumer mindset of caring for self, for community, and for nature, that translates behaviorally into tempering the selfdefeating excesses associated with acquisitive, repetitive and aspirational consumption. We also make the business case for fostering mindful consumption, and illustrate how the marketing function can be harnessed to successfully implement the customer-centric approach to sustainability.

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Section: Caring For Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Mindful consumption: a customer-centric approach to sustainability

Sheth

Sethia

Srinivas

2010

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

874

688

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“…The dominant industrial worldview emphasises science, technology and consumption. It has a strong belief in economic growth, the market, human domination over nature, and faith in technology to solve environmental and other social problems [73,74]. This worldview is generally espoused by government organisations, corporations [28], and business studies [75][76][77].…”

Section: The Industrial Worldview and Its Presence In Business And Mamentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketing and Sustainability: Business as Usual or Changing Worldviews?

2019

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Marketing, and the business schools within which most marketing academics and researchers work, have a fraught relationship with sustainability. Marketing is typically regarded as encouraging overconsumption and contributing to global change yet, simultaneously, it is also promoted as a means to enable sustainable consumption. Based on a critical review of the literature, the paper responds to the need to better understand the underpinnings of marketing worldviews with respect to sustainability. The paper discusses the concept of worldviews and their transformation, sustainability’s articulation in marketing and business schools, and the implications of the market logic dominance in faculty mind-sets. This is timely given that business schools are increasingly positioning themselves as a positive contributor to sustainability. Institutional barriers, specifically within universities, business schools, and the marketing discipline, are identified as affecting the ability to effect ‘bottom-up’ change. It is concluded that if institutions, including disciplines and business schools, remain wedded to assumptions regarding the compatibility between the environment and economic growth and acceptance of market forces then the development of alternative perspectives on sustainability remains highly problematic.

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“…Past researchers explain that caring for the natural environment can be based on three types of value which are intrinsic, instrumental and aesthetic [8]. Under the intrinsic value, we, as human beings, have an obligation to preserve the environment regardless of any utilitarian concerns that mark the instrumental value orientation.…”

Section: A Caring For the Naturementioning

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“…Instrumental value provides us the motive to conserve the environment so that it remained sustainable towards human beings and thus remains useful to humans. Under aesthetic value, Kilbourne [8] stated that it occupies a middle range between preservationism and conservationism. Currently, the idea of green consumption is receiving much attention among consumers and even corporate sectors [9].…”

Section: A Caring For the Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Mindful Consumption (MC) on Investment Decision: A Study Within Malaysian Individual Investors

Malek¹,

Osman²,

Alwi³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 1st AAGBS International Conference on Business Management 2014 (AiCoBM 2014)

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Mindful consumption is considered to be a new wave of consumer behaviour. Moreover, as an increasingly educated and financially sophisticated society, Malaysia has the potential to further the trend of mindful consumption in everyday living while, at the same time, contributing towards sustainable future. This paper was designed to extend the line of discussion between the trends of mindful consumption in Malaysian society according to the mindful consumption model by Sheth et al. (J Acad Mark Sci 39:21-39, 2011). This model was adopted in this study as the guiding principle where mindful consumption is premised on a consumer mindset of caring for self, caring for community and lastly caring for nature that reflect behaviourally into temperance with acquisitive, repetitive and aspirational consumption. Correspondingly, this paper focuses on mindful consumption of investors towards investment decision making. In addition, this allows them to tell their own perspective on how mindful consumption impacted their investment decision-making. It is anticipated that by adopting mindful consumption in this study, the reasons towards investor's investment decision can be identified through their consumption behaviour.

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The Role of the Dominant Social Paradigm in the Quality of Life/Environmental Interface

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

Mindful consumption: a customer-centric approach to sustainability

Mindful consumption: a customer-centric approach to sustainability

Marketing and Sustainability: Business as Usual or Changing Worldviews?

Impact of Mindful Consumption (MC) on Investment Decision: A Study Within Malaysian Individual Investors

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