Why Ethical Consumers Don’t Walk Their Talk: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Gap Between the Ethical Purchase Intentions and Actual Buying Behaviour of Ethically Minded Consumers

By Michal J Carrington, Benjamin A. Neville, G. Whitwell. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Marketing

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The ideology of the ethical consumption gap (2016, background): “Carrington et al. (2014) focus on discrepancies between ethical consumption intentions and actual behavior and find that ingrained ‘‘unethical’’ purchasing and consumption habits place consumers in a state of autopilot, are often multilayered, involve complex sequences of behavior and are therefore…”
Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR): Toward a Multi-Level, Multi-Agent Conceptualization of the “Other CSR” (2013, neutral): “Work on attitude–behavior gaps (e.g., Bray et al. 2010; Carrington et al. 2010; Chatzidakis et al. 2007; De Pelsmacker et al. 2005; Uusitalo and Oksanen 2004) in ethical consumption undermines this perspective, suggesting consumers act upon various motives that complement and compete with ethical…”
Sustainable Consumption and the Attitude-Behaviour-Gap Phenomenon - Causes and Measurements towards a Sustainable Development (2015, background): “(based on Balderjahn, 2013; Carrington et al., 2010; Vermeier and Verbeke, 2006) Nevertheless it is observed that attitudes towards sustainable consumption deviate from the actual consumption behaviour.”
Moral Disengagement in Harmful but Cherished Food Practices? An Exploration into the Case of Meat (2014, background): “For example, in the environmental domain, a large body of evidence shows that the relationships between environmental knowledge and awareness, pro-environmental attitudes, and pro-environmental behaviours, are often weak or non-existent (cf. Carrington et al. 2010; Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002).”
Are Consumers Really Willing to Pay More for a Favorable Country Image? A Study of Country-of-Origin Effects on Willingness to Pay (2012, background): “This is important because “there exists a gap between what consumers say they are going to do and what they actually do at the point of purchase” (Carrington, Neville, and Whitwell 2010, p. 141).”
Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior (2020, background): “Yet, regardless of the shade of altruism, past research has shown that both stimulate warm glow effects [78] and that warm glow benefits significantly impact consumer attitudes toward green energy brands [38,79].”