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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 176, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121432
Keywords
Green consumption values; Sharing economy; Sustainable consumption behavior; Theory of consumption values; Gender; Metaverse
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- LiikesivistysrahastoFoundation for Economic Education [12-6861]
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This study examines the gap between consumers' intentions and behaviors in sustainable resale behavior by investigating the consumption values associated with using a sharing economy platform. The findings suggest that economic and practical values have a negative impact on green consumption values, while recreational, generative, societal benefit, and protestor values have a positive influence. Furthermore, gender moderates these relationships.
Past research has extensively studied the antecedents and consequences of consumers' green consumption values, as well as the psychological mechanisms that underlie an ethical consumer. Yet a frustrating paradox remains, indicated by the consumers' intention-behavior gap for their sustainable behavior. To address this gap, the present study focuses on the consumption values that lead to using a sharing economy platform. Our study draws on the theory of consumption values and altruistic-egoistic values, as well as spillover effect psychology, to examine associations between context-specific values, green consumption values, and sustainable resale behavior. By collaborating with a Nordic second-hand peer-to-peer platform brand, our findings-obtained from large-scale field data (n = 3256)-challenge the conventional wisdom by demonstrating that economic and practical values for using the second-hand peer-to-peer platform negatively affect green consumption values and subsequently weaken the consumers' preparedness to engage in sustainable resale behavior. In contrast, recreational, generative, societal benefit, and protestor values positively influence green consumption values and increase the consumers' willingness to engage in pro-environmental behavior. Further, such relationships are moderated by gender: stronger effects were identified among female consumers. These findings have important implications for theory and practice.
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