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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"consumption behaviour"”.
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Analysis of barriers and drivers towards sustainable consumption behaviour from an Irish consumer perspective
To transition to a sustainable consumption environment, Ireland has articulated a variety of National framework plans and policies, yet several sustainability related indicators, such as resource efficiency, sustainable development goals twelve (SDG12) score and waste per capita positions Ireland …
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The role of reference groups as credible sources in African women’s natural hair care consumption behaviour
… in Black African women’s natural hair care consumption behaviour. Reference groups’ source credibility has long been studied by consumer researchers and marketing practitioners because credible sources of information are important in impacting consumer behaviour. Source credibility has been …
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The effect of collectivism on family meal consumption behaviour and its implications on food companies in Sierra Leone
… backgrounds, who espoused different cultural behaviours at mealtimes and in their business dealings. The significance of this study is that it highlights the differences and similarities inherent among the families and businesses in the Sierra Leonean collectivist context, and Africa …
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The influence of Chinese philosophical religious traditions on Chinese consumption behaviour: a multiple case study of Chinese festivals
… has predominantly focused on Confucian luxury consumption behaviour and none have addressed the three principal philosophical religious traditions of China (namely Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism) in the context of consumers and their consumption behaviours. This study is exploratory in …
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The presence of and antecedents to bandwagon consumption behaviour among the South African black middle class in the context of luxury motor vehicles
… Black middle class to engage in bandwagon consumption when purchasing luxury motor vehicles. The South African Black middle class has been receiving attention in consumer markets, especially from luxury brand houses looking at emerging markets for growth. This study was designed to measure …
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Investigation of Energy Demand Modeling and Management for Local Communities. Investigation of the electricity demand modeling and management including consumption behaviour, dynamic tariffs, and use of renewable energy.
… similar community, and then predicts the energy behaviour of each household, and hence of the community. It is based on a combination of the statistical data, and a questionnaire survey. The methodology therefore enables realistic predictions and can help local planners decide on measures such as …
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Az első lépések a fogyasztóvá váláshoz: Hogyan befolyásolja az óvodáskorú gyermekek környezete az élelmiszer-fogyasztási viselkedésüket? = The first steps to becoming consumers: How preschool children's surroundings impact on their food consumption behaviour
… L. (2001a). Development of the children's eating behaviour questionnaire. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42 (7), 963-970. o.
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Consumer identity: the case of home confined consumers
This thesis focuses on the lived consumption expenences that home confined consumers employ to retain an identity in absence of direct marketplace interaction. Home confined consumers account for a significant percentage of the population that are termed disabled. This group of consumers are …
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Identifying and understanding consumers of wild animal products in Hanoi, Vietnam: implications for conservation management
… information about wild animal consumers and consumption behaviour in urban Vietnam. In particular, little is known about the characteristics of consumers, the context of consumption, the values associated with wild animal products, the ability of farmed wild substitutes to satisfy consumer …
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The role of emotions in game experience: linking emotions, game experience and return intentions
… efforts to understand the consumer, consumer behaviour researchers generally adopt a cognitive perspective, which propagates a rational, information processing approach to consumer behaviour (O’Shaughnessy and O’Shaughnessy, 2003). However, a unitary theory of consumption behaviour is …
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Essays on Residential Electricity Consumption Profiles: Weather Effects and Household Behaviour Patterns
… unprecedented opportunity to examine household consumption behaviour in narrow time windows, whereas past studies could only look at monthly or even yearly consumption. However, most studies that have used smart meter data focused either on load management (load forecasting, theft detection, …
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Understanding the influence of individual behaviour and social networks in sustainability transitions.
A behaviour change towards sustainable food purchasing behaviour is crucially necessary for the survival of the planet. This thesis applied a mixed method approach, combining results from a cross-sectional online survey (N=474), a lab experiment (N=134) and an agent-based model (ABM) to explore how …
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Consumer behaviour in computer mediated environments: implications for marketers
… examined the relationship between key consumer behaviour variables and the broad consumption behaviour patterns of consumers who searched and shopped for products over the Internet. The aim was to explore and suggest to marketing managers how and why people behaved as they do whilst searching …
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Environmental concern, knowledge, and the enactment of environmental citizenship in a retail food environment: an investigation into the perceptions and behaviours of Cape Town consumers
Sustainable consumption has long been recognised as essential for the achievement of sustainable development. Whilst early efforts to achieve sustainable consumption focused on using technological innovation and process efficiencies to reduce the resource intensity of products, create new, less …
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Exploring the Effect of Tourism Type on Green Consumption Intentions in the Hotel Industry: The Moderating Roles of Benefit Type and Benefit Time
Green consumption behaviour has been widely investigated. Scholars have suggested that a luxury tourism product type can be a negative predictor of environmentally friendly consumption intentions. However, conditions under which green practices can be most effective still need to be discovered, …
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A quantitative measurement of policy options to inform value-added tax reform in South Africa
… were determined, allowing for households consumption behaviour to change in response to a change in VAT policy and direct cash expenditure policy. The identified policy changes were applied to the structural model, the results were described and policy recommendations were made.
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The Role of Self on Ethical Consumption in a Religious Culture: A Case of Consumers in Thailand
… explores the role of the self-concept on ethical consumption behaviour within the Thai consumer context. Religiosity has an influence on a person’s self and morality as Thai people place high importance on religious values. Ten consumers are studied through in-depth, phenomenological interviews, …
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SASSI and the MSC: How effective have they been with reaching consumers in Cape Town and raising their awareness
… initiatives, and to link awareness with seafood consumption behaviour. It used face-to-face surveys, which were conducted at all times of the week in outlets of three major supermarket chains located at five middle-class shopping centres. Aspects investigated included consumers': recognition of …
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'We're all Fairtrade consumers now!? An exploration of the meanings, moralities and politics of Fairtrade consumption
… a different tale. Moving away from accounts of consumption that rely on models of conscious, expressive and reflexive choice, the study demonstrates the importance of paying attention to the increasing institutionalisation of forms of collective Fairtrade purchasing, as well as the ways in which …
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Pick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels
… control as a key characteristic of contemporary consumption behaviour. Its main contributions are the findings that the need for control has six dimensions (time, place, costs, risks, information and personal contact), and that the influence of these dimensions on consumer channel choice varies …
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