Green Consumerism

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This paper examines the existing literature on green consumerism and discusses various influences on green purchase behavior. The study moves on from the demographic, behavioral and psychographic variables that influence consumer buying behavior to less explored influences like perceived consumer behavior, perceived relative advantage, green product attributes and situational factors which may be having substantive impact on purchase behavior. The Discussions leads to further research propositions and directions in the field. The proposed model is built on the premise that demographic, psychographic and behavioral influences may lead to environmental concern which may trigger purchase Intention, but for actual purchase to happen variables related …show more content…

(Getzner & Grabner-Kräuter, 2004) Although only demographic characteristics of consumers are not enough to determine the profile of green consumers, some common factors which are useful information when segmenting consumers can be certainly carved out of them (D Souza Taghian Lamb Peretaitko 2007). Results of studies using variables like gender were not conclusive enough .Empirical research show minimal influence of Gender on green consumerism. Straughan and Roberts (1999) stated that women are more pro-environmental and more concerned about environment than men (Berkowitz & Lutterman, 1968; Banerjee & McKeage, 1994).No concrete results whether women are likely to act in a more environmentally aware manner than men in terms of green consumption were found (Berkowitz and Lutterman …show more content…

(Kassarjian, 1971; Anderson and Cunningham, 1972; McEvoy, 1972; Kinnear et al., 1974; Van Liere and Dunlap, 1981; Sandahl and Robertson, 1989; Zimmer et al., 1994; Roberts, 1995, 1996;Roberts and Bacon,

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