What We Believe Is Not Always What We Do: An Empirical Investigation into Ethically Questionable Behavior in Consumption

Fukukawa, Kyoko; Ennew, Christine

doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0567-1

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“…This paper considers microlevel variables on attitude, intention and behaviour. Future research may incorporate price, government incentives and environmental benefits at the macrolevel. The TPB can be misleading as consumers sometimes report an intent to purchase, but do not follow through (Carrington et al, ; Fukukawa & Ennew, ). Testing consumer follow‐through with the TRA in the context of reused/recycled content at different price points is advisable.…”

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Impact of environmental knowledge and product quality on student attitude toward products with recycled/remanufactured content: Implications for environmental education and green manufacturing

2018

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This study investigates the impact of environmental knowledge and perceived product quality on purchasing intention and purchasing behavior of recycled products: A4 paper, mobile phones and printers. The intent is to understand how to move future generations toward more sustainable behavior, as currently unsustainable amounts of waste are generated across the Far East. Expectancy value theory and the theory of reasoned action are applied to the purchase of products with recovered and/or recycled content (n = 215). The study indicates: (1) a significant positive relationship was found between both the intention to purchase and the purchase of recycled products; (2) the perception of recycled product risk has a significant negative impact on the perception of recycled product quality and the attitude toward environmental protection; (3) perceived quality of recycled product is positively related to attitude toward environmental protection; (4) perceived quality of recycled product and attitude to environmental protection are positively related to intention to purchase recycled products; and (5) surprisingly, knowledge regarding environmental damage and pollution is unrelated to attitude toward environmental protection. This study offers new insights into the impact of education on environmental protection, purchasing of greener products and the need for environmental education to move from a goal of understanding to that of action.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…2. The TPB can be misleading as consumers sometimes report an intent to purchase, but do not follow through (Carrington et al, 2010;Fukukawa & Ennew, 2010). Testing consumer followthrough with the TRA in the context of reused/recycled content at different price points is advisable.…”

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Impact of environmental knowledge and product quality on student attitude toward products with recycled/remanufactured content: Implications for environmental education and green manufacturing

2018

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“…People often explain away their self‐serving behaviors by attributing them to upholding other values (e.g., explaining an unfair behavior that benefits the self as altruism toward a close other who also unfairly benefits; Gino, Ayal, & Ariely, ). Feeling as if one has been cheated by another also results in more immoral behavior by decreasing feelings of guilt about these unethical behaviors at the “unfair” individual's expense (Fukukawa & Ennew, ). Even reporting high concern and good intentions toward helping others can make people feel less obligated to act upon those feelings (White & Plous, ).…”

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When Values and Behavior Conflict: Moral Pluralism and Intrapersonal Moral Hypocrisy

Graham

Meindl

Koleva

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Social & Personality Psych

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The authors review the various ways moral hypocrisy has been defined and operationalized by social psychologists, concentrating on three general types: moral duplicity, moral double standards, and moral weakness. While most approaches have treated moral hypocrisy as an interpersonal phenomenon, requiring public claims, preaching (versus practicing), or judgments of others (versus oneself), this paper also considers intrapersonal moral hypocrisy – that is, conflicts between values and behavior that may exist even in the absence of public pronouncements or judgments. Current attempts to understand and combat intrapersonal moral hypocrisy are aided by moral pluralism, the idea that there are many different moral values, which may come into conflict both between and within individuals. Examples are given to illustrate how taking into account individual differences in values can help to reduce moral hypocrisy. The authors close by considering the possibility that in a pluralistic world, reducing intrapersonal moral hypocrisy might not always be a normatively desired end goal.

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“…7 The estimation of these thresholds is theoretically and empirically essential because it allows an in depth analysis of the Muslim consumer behavior. Much of the empirical research, which seeks to understand the ethical dimension in consumer behavior, is based on questionnaires and surveys of consumers (Fukukawa and Ennew 2010). By using specific instrumental variables, we suggest measures of the ethicalness of the consumer behavior; we find the appropriate indexvariable indicating (un)ethical consumption.…”

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Fairness and Ethics in Spending

Ghassan

2016

J. Rev. Global Econ.

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Islamic faith and the ethical dimensions of the individual and the community have a significant role in guiding economic behavior by connecting the worldly life to the hereafter. In the Islamic economics paradigm, by relating ethics to the economic behavior of spending, we exhibit the good (bad) attributes of ethical (unethical) behavior. In this paper, we contribute to developing a measure of the overspending and underspending that allows testing the presence of wastefulness and niggardliness.

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What We Believe Is Not Always What We Do: An Empirical Investigation into Ethically Questionable Behavior in Consumption

Abstract: consumer ethics, consumer fraud, ethical decision-making, ethical intention, theory of planned behavior,

Cited by 38 publications

References 40 publications

Impact of environmental knowledge and product quality on student attitude toward products with recycled/remanufactured content: Implications for environmental education and green manufacturing

Impact of environmental knowledge and product quality on student attitude toward products with recycled/remanufactured content: Implications for environmental education and green manufacturing

When Values and Behavior Conflict: Moral Pluralism and Intrapersonal Moral Hypocrisy

Fairness and Ethics in Spending

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