Download or read book Consumption Differentials and the Environment written by Mary Beth Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychological and Behavioral Decision Making of Green Consumption written by Ruyin Long and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staying the Consumption Course written by Benjamin Krischan Schulte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Krischan Schulte develops a process-model of consumer lock-in in service relationships by connecting three areas of research: path dependence, consumer behavior and service relationship marketing. He defines consumer lock-in as a situation of a potentially unaware inability to switch from or exit a consumption process due to entrenchment with increasing barriers on the individual and/or social level. Switching barriers are elaborated as consumer lock-in mechanisms. The resulting process model is outlined and empirically examined in an explorative panel study of a service relationship process in higher education. The author ́s findings support the presence of consumer lock-in in services as an idiosyncratic process of gradual entrapment. The phenomenon has relevance for researchers and practitioners in complex service relationships, where lock-in was found to be a likely occurrence but difficult to grasp.
Download or read book Inside Consumption written by S. Ratneshwar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from The Why of Consumption, this book examines motivational factors in diverse consumption behaviours. In a world where consumption has become the defining phenomenon of human life and society, it addresses the effects of critical life events on consumption motives, and the sociological and intergenerational influences on consumer motives and preferences. Its cross-disciplinary approach brings together some of the leading scholars from diverse subject areas to examine the central question about consumption: ‘why?’. This is a unique and invaluable contribution to the area, and an essential asset for all those involved in researching, teaching or studying consumption and consumer behaviour.
Download or read book Confronting Consumption written by Thomas Princen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and journalists, in fact, accept the economists' view of consumption as nothing less than the purpose of the economy. Yet many people have a troubled, intuitive understanding that tinkering at the margins of production and purchasing will not put society on an ecologically and socially sustainable path. Confronting Consumption places consumption at the center of debate by conceptualizing "the consumption problem" and documenting diverse efforts to confront it. In Part 1, the book frames consumption as a problem of political and ecological economy, emphasizing core concepts of individualization and commoditization. Part 2 develops the idea of distancing and examines transnational chains of consumption in the context of economic globalization. Part 3 describes citizen action through local currencies, home power, voluntary simplicity, "ad-busting," and product certification. Together, the chapters propose "cautious consuming" and "better producing" as an activist and policy response to environmental problems. The book concludes that confronting consumption must become a driving focus of contemporary environmental scholarship and activism.
Download or read book Towards Sustainable Household Consumption Trends and Policies in OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of household consumption patterns in five key areas: food, tourism-related travel, energy, water and waste generation.
Download or read book Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty written by J. Geweke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As desired, the infonnation demand correspondence is single valued at equilibrium prices. Hence no planner is needed to assign infonnation allocations to individuals. Proposition 4. For any given infonnation price system p E . P (F *), almost every a E A demands a unique combined infonnation structure (although traders may be indifferent among partial infonnation sales from different information allocations, etc. ). In particular, the aggregate excess demand correspondence for net combined infonnation trades is a continuous function. Proof Uniqueness fails only if an agent can obtain the same expected utility from two or more net combined infonnation allocations. If this happens, appropriate slight perturbations of personal probability vectors destroy the equality unless the utility functions and wealth allocations were independent across states. Yet, when utilities and wealths don't depend on states in S, no infonnation to distinguish the states is desired, so that the demand for such infonnation structures must equal zero. To show the second claim, recall that if the correspondence is single valued for almost every agent, then its integral is also single valued. Finally, note that an upper hemicontinuous (by Proposition 2) correspondence which is single valued everywhere is, in fact, a continuous function. [] REFERENCES Allen, Beth (1986a). "The Demand for (Differentiated) Infonnation"; Review of Economic Studies. 53. (311-323). Allen, Beth (1986b). "General Equilibrium with Infonnation Sales"; Theory and Decision. 21. (1-33). Allen, Beth (1990). "Infonnation as an Economic Commodity"; American Economic Review. 80. (268-273).
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption written by Ayalla A. Ruvio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the contemporary world. In our materialistic world it seems as if there is no debate that our consumption behaviour is fused with our self-identity - shaping it, changing it and often challenging it. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption introduces the reader to state-of-the-art research, written by the world’s leading scholars regarding the interplay between identity and consumption. The book addresses the diverse issues regarding the ways identity affects our consumption behaviour and vice-versa and in doing so, presents a broad perspective on the dynamics of self-identity and consumption. With chapters discussing the theory, research and practical implications of these dynamics, including the way they change across our life span and their expression within different social, cultural and religious contexts, this book will be a valuable reference source for students and academics from a variety of disciplines.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy written by Jayson L. Lusk and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First reference on food consumption and policy.
Download or read book The Structure of Consumption Decisions written by Vani K. Borooah and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The why of Consumption written by S. Ratneshwar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the authors draw from branches of psychology, decision theory, sociology and cultural anthropology to present a diverse selection of critical perspectives on consumer motivation.
Download or read book Consumption visions in consumer decision making written by Diane M. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consumer Behaviour and Sustainable Fashion Consumption written by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the importance of consumer behaviour in sustainable fashion and consumption. Consumer behaviour plays a major role in sustainability, and when it comes to textile products, a number of studies have shown that for certain product categories, consumer behaviour during use and disposal stages influences the entire life cycle impacts of the product more than the raw material and manufacturing stages. However green the production, the overall sustainability of a product depends on the consumers who use and dispose of it.
Download or read book Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility written by Karnika Gupta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the concept of consumer social responsibility (CnSR) by considering the combination of ‘consumption behaviour’ and ‘social responsibility’. It puts forward a theory of responsible consumption behaviour, then models and empirically tests this theory using quantitative research methods. In so doing, the book offers a new consumer behaviour model: the C-A-C-B (Concern-Attitude-Commitment-Behaviour) model. The book appeals to readers interested in consumer behaviour, research methodologies, social responsibility, corporate social responsibility, segmentation and profiling, sustainability, and structural equation modelling with path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The book also offers concrete recommendations that will benefit businesses and governments alike.
Download or read book How Consumers Make Consumption Choice written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ChapterTwoBehavioral economy explains how and why consumer choiceCan apply behavioral economy method to explain how and why customer individual will decide every decisional choice? It is one fun psychological and mocro economic question to research every consumer individual behavior. Why does he/she choose to buy the product or consume the service? Does he/she compare the economic benefit or opportunity cost before he/she choose to buy the product or consume the service? What factors persuade or attract the consumer to make the final consumption decision. All these questions which seem product manufacturers or product sellers or service providers can attempt to apply behavioral economy theory to predict consumer behaviors more easily in order to avoid the loss chance to choose to buy their products or consume their service more easily in every consumer individual choice decision making process.Traditional economy can be predominted by psychology, but it can also include elements of philosophy, sociology nd even mathematics or econometrics. When any product manufacturers or sellers or service providers expect to predict consumer market how will change to influence consumer individual consumption effort. Analysis is necessary, it is made possible a better understanding of the human brain and of the fundmentals on which it builds decision-making. However, they also need to make any hypotheses of consumption environment to attempt to find what factors will influence future individual customer behavioral changes to make decision making whether how any why he/she chooses to buy the product or consume the service. So, the research methodology was concentrate on quality method more than quantity method when any product manufacturer or service provider expects to predict future consumer behavioral how and why changes more easily. The research processing includes data collected from the global business similar product seller market. The data can concern: How and why the environmental factors had influenced many consumers make emotional reponses of individuals in economical decision making to choose the purchase any similar brand product consumers' shopping experiences will help the present product manufacturers to predict whether how and why what factors will influence the similar product consumers to choose to buy its products in future consumption environment more easily.It is any product manufacturers or sellers or service providers whose final aim to achieve any behavioral economic research concerns consumer behavioral researchs. According to standard economic model consumers are making decisions in the comprehensive economic or consumption environment, they know their preferences, their choices are always rational more than not rational. So, rational mind will influence their consumption choice behaviors to make the most reasonable consumption decision when they feel or believe their choice to buy the product or consume the service which is the most reasonable . They will compare different brands of products values to evaluate whether which brands can bring the largest economic benefit to avoid the loss to use after they choose to buy the product to use.
Download or read book The Economics of Consumption written by Willard Wesley Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings written by Klaus Rennings and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this book, decisions on energy consumption by private households are examined. The analyses are based on several empirical methods. The results show that the road to more sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings is not hampered by a lack of will on behalf of the consumers. However one should be realistic that there are many instances where improving thermal institution involves additional economic costs for individual households.
