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JOURNAL OF MARKETING
卷 85, 期 3, 页码 44-61出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022242921992052
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consumer resistance; practice theory; social change; sustainable consumer behavior; sustainability intervention
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- UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme: Round Two 2018
The study found that consumer resistance to sustainability interventions is not because consumers are unwilling to change individual behaviors, but because the interventions overly focus on individual behaviors and ignore the dynamic influences of social practices, disrupting the multiple practices that shape consumers' lives. Therefore, an effective way to reduce consumer resistance is to focus on social practices as a whole when designing and managing sustainability initiatives.
Given the increasingly grave environmental crisis, governments and organizations frequently initiate sustainability interventions to encourage sustainable behavior in individual consumers. However, prevalent behavioral approaches to sustainability interventions often have the unintended consequence of generating consumer resistance, undermining their effectiveness. With a practice-theoretical perspective, the authors investigate what generates consumer resistance and how it can be reduced, using consumer responses to a nationwide ban on plastic bags in Chile in 2019. The findings show that consumer resistance to sustainability interventions emerges not primarily because consumers are unwilling to change their individual behavior-as the existing literature commonly assumes-but because the individual behaviors being targeted are embedded in dynamic social practices. When sustainability interventions aim to change individual behaviors rather than social practices, they place excessive responsibility on consumers, unsettle their practice-related emotionality, and destabilize the multiple practices that interconnect to shape consumers' lives, ultimately leading to resistance. The authors propose a theory of consumer resistance in social practice change that explains consumer resistance to sustainability interventions and ways of reducing it. They also offer recommendations for policy makers and social marketers in designing and managing sustainability initiatives that trigger less consumer resistance and thereby foster sustainable consumer behavior.
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