Int. J. Business Competition and Growth, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2014 275
Copyright © 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
Green marketing promotion tools and Indian
consumers’ green purchase intentions
Vishnu Nath
C/o Dr. Rajat Agrawal,
Department of Management Studies,
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Email: reachme.nath@gmail.com
Rajat Agrawal*
Department of Management Studies,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Email: rajatfdm@iitr.ernet.in
*Corresponding author
Aditya Gautam
Omkarananda Institute of Management and Technology,
Swami Omkarananda Saraswati Marg,
Post Office Shivananda Nagar,
Rishikesh – 249192, Uttarakhand, India
Email: adityag23@gmail.com
Vinay Sharma
Department of Management Studies,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India
Email: vinayfdm@iitr.ernet.in
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of green
marketing promotion tools such as environmental advertising and eco-labelling
on Indian consumers’ intention to purchase a green product. Consumer
purchase intentions for green products were considered as a dependent variable,
while environmental/green advertising, eco-labelling and consumer skepticism
were considered as independent variables. Using a random sample of 545,
the multiple regression analysis suggested that green advertising and
eco-labelling has significant positive relation to green purchase intentions,
while, skepticism towards green marketing promotion tools has no significant
affect on green purchase intentions. Based on the results, the study proposes
certain courses of action for policy and marketing actors.