821 © Academy of Marketing Science 2017
M. Stieler (ed.), Creating Marketing Magic and Innovative Future Marketing
Trends, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy
of Marketing Science, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45596-9_153
Do Consumers Having Different Levels
of Green Consumption Value and Frugality
Have Same or Different Levels of Participation
in Environmentally Responsible Consumption
Behaviors? An Extended Abstract
Sudhanshu Gupta and Richa Agrawal
Introduction
The increase in the amount of environmental studies being undertaken today suggests
the popularity of such studies among academic researchers, businesses and policy
makers. Existing studies have mostly concentrated on studying the determinants of
environmental behaviors and/or profiling green consumers (Roberts 1995, 1996;
Straughan and Roberts 1999; Chan 2001; Kim and Choi 2005; Glig et al. 2005;
Akehurst et al. 2012; Khare 2014). Unfortunately, such studies have mostly confined
to studying only limited ERC behaviors. Also, much of the literature is concentrated
in developed economies (Diamantopoulos et al. 2003), with few notable exceptions in
emerging economies (e.g., Chan 2001; Khare 2015). With the increasing concern for
the environment and growing consumer class in emerging economies, marketers in
the green domain, are looking to tap such markets. Thus, this study concentrates on
understanding the environmental behaviors of Indian consumers. Specifically, we
investigate how different levels of green consumption value and frugality impact an
individual’s participation in various environmental behaviors.
In this study, we denote the concept of environmental behaviors as “environmen-
tally responsible consumption” (ERC), which is defined as “all such environment
friendly behaviors that may be undertaken by an individual in the course of his/her
everyday consumption, such that the negative impact of consumption on environ-
ment is reduced.” We include green consumption value and frugality since these
concepts have been well established in literature and so as their relationship with
ERC.
S. Gupta (*) • R. Agrawal
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
e-mail: sudhanshugupta2002@gmail.com; richa@iitm.ac.in