Consumer motivations for sustainable consumption : The interaction of gain, normative and hedonic motivations on electric vehicle adoption
(2018) In Business Strategy and the Environment 27(8). p.1272-1283- Abstract
- Recent conceptual studies identify gain, normative and hedonic factors as three categories of motivations of consumer proenvironmental behavior. However, empirical understanding of how these motivations interact and affect proenvironmental behavior is limited. This study is based on a survey of car owners in Sweden (N = 573) and uses structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The empirical findings point to the importance of all three motivations (gain, normative and hedonic) in consumer electric vehicle adoption intentions. Furthermore, for consumers who perceive high social norms regarding sustainable consumption, the direct effect of hedonic motivations on behavioral intention is stronger, and the direct effect of gain... (More)
- Recent conceptual studies identify gain, normative and hedonic factors as three categories of motivations of consumer proenvironmental behavior. However, empirical understanding of how these motivations interact and affect proenvironmental behavior is limited. This study is based on a survey of car owners in Sweden (N = 573) and uses structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The empirical findings point to the importance of all three motivations (gain, normative and hedonic) in consumer electric vehicle adoption intentions. Furthermore, for consumers who perceive high social norms regarding sustainable consumption, the direct effect of hedonic motivations on behavioral intention is stronger, and the direct effect of gain motivations is insignificant. The business strategy implications indicate that targeting consumers who perceive high social norms in relation to proenvironmental behavior and communicating the hedonic and normative aspects of proenvironmental behaviors to this group might be more effective than general mass communication. (Less)
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- Rezvani, Zeinab ; Jansson, Johan LU and Bengtsson, Maria
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- 2018-12
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- keywords
- consumer behavior, gain, hedonic motivation, norm, sustainable consumption
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- Business Strategy and the Environment
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- 27
- issue
- 8
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- 1272 - 1283
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- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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- scopus:85047497261
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- 0964-4733
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- 10.1002/bse.2074
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- English
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abstract = {{Recent conceptual studies identify gain, normative and hedonic factors as three categories of motivations of consumer proenvironmental behavior. However, empirical understanding of how these motivations interact and affect proenvironmental behavior is limited. This study is based on a survey of car owners in Sweden (N = 573) and uses structural equation modeling to analyze the data. The empirical findings point to the importance of all three motivations (gain, normative and hedonic) in consumer electric vehicle adoption intentions. Furthermore, for consumers who perceive high social norms regarding sustainable consumption, the direct effect of hedonic motivations on behavioral intention is stronger, and the direct effect of gain motivations is insignificant. The business strategy implications indicate that targeting consumers who perceive high social norms in relation to proenvironmental behavior and communicating the hedonic and normative aspects of proenvironmental behaviors to this group might be more effective than general mass communication.}},
author = {{Rezvani, Zeinab and Jansson, Johan and Bengtsson, Maria}},
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publisher = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
series = {{Business Strategy and the Environment}},
title = {{Consumer motivations for sustainable consumption : The interaction of gain, normative and hedonic motivations on electric vehicle adoption}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.2074}},
doi = {{10.1002/bse.2074}},
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