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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,927 Views
14 Pages

Determinants of Actual Purchase Behavior in Farmers’ Markets

  • Bi-Kun Tsai,
  • Ku-Yuan Lee,
  • Chi-Ming Hsieh and
  • Pimpinan Somsong

3 October 2019

Farmers’ markets in Taiwan advocate for the sustainable consumption of locally produced food to support sustainability and social justice goals. Institutional trust and interpersonal trust are critical determinative factors in sustaining farmer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
143 Citations
33,240 Views
17 Pages

Recently, environmental issues have become major social concerns, and consumers are becoming increasingly aware of environmental matters; however, they remain hesitant to purchase eco-friendly products. This study examined consumers’ environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,791 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2023

The demand and commercialization of organic foods is developing rapidly. However, there is an imbalance between the increasing use of these products and the limited attention of researchers to this category of products. The present study intends to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
24,648 Views
18 Pages

28 December 2020

Environmental degradation is a serious problem in modern civilization as it causes changes in consumer behavior towards ecologically responsible purchasing. In order to understand the green product purchasing decision process, an extensive literature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,341 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Environmental Commitment on Green Purchase Behavior in China

  • Xixiang Sun,
  • Ziyuan Tian,
  • Jianguo Wang and
  • Weihuan Su

There is no consensus on whether environmental commitment can promote green purchase behavior. Especially in the Chinese context, the validity and internal mechanism of the impact of environmental commitment on green purchase behavior have not been d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,808 Views
12 Pages

Is Purchase Behavior Different for Consumers with Long COVID?

  • Alicia Blanco-Gonzalez,
  • Gabriel Cachón-Rodríguez,
  • Cristina Del-Castillo-Feito and
  • Ana Cruz-Suarez

COVID-19 has generated an uncertain environment, which has motivated changes in consumers’ behavior globally. However, previous studies have not clarified if these effects are equally strong throughout the population. In this research, we want...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,098 Views
33 Pages

30 August 2025

This study investigates the factors influencing green purchase behavior in emerging economies, focusing on Indonesian consumers’ preferences for organic food products. While sustainability awareness is growing globally, limited research has exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
158 Citations
38,544 Views
28 Pages

9 January 2022

Many consumers are concerned about environmental issues and have expressed interest in purchasing green products. However, actual sales of green products are still not as high as expected. Therefore, marketers of green products may need to investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,733 Views
12 Pages

22 July 2024

The increasing global focus on environmental sustainability has led to a growing emphasis on green purchase behavior. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is one of the classical theories used to understand individual green purchase behavior from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,852 Views
20 Pages

22 May 2024

Given the heightened awareness of health and sustainable development in contemporary society, light meals have become a popular dietary choice with considerable momentum. This study focuses on the role of influencer marketing platforms in promoting c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
27,108 Views
22 Pages

Ecolabels and the Attitude–Behavior Relationship towards Green Product Purchase: A Multiple Mediation Model

  • Kyriakos Riskos,
  • Paraskevi (Evi) Dekoulou,
  • Naoum Mylonas and
  • George Tsourvakas

17 June 2021

Ecolabels are regarded as an exceptional marketing and advertising tool that informs contemporary consumers about the green traits of a product. They provide information that motivates consumers to exhibit a positive attitude and actual behavior towa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,208 Views
16 Pages

Social media influencers (SMIs) have become pivotal stakeholders in digital marketing. This study examines how SMIs influence consumer decision-making and investigates the role of trust in this process. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior (TPB)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,669 Views
21 Pages

Green Purchase Behavior of University Students in Hungary: An Empirical Study

  • Farheen Naz,
  • Judit Oláh,
  • Dinu Vasile and
  • Róbert Magda

2 December 2020

In this modern age of digitalization, consumers have access to an ample amount of information regarding a product’s quality and benefits, which makes consumers more conscious of their consumption patterns and their impact on social and environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,162 Views
20 Pages

Pathways to Green Purchase: Pro-Environmental Behavior and Concern in Bali Tourism

  • Nilna Muna,
  • I Kadek Rio Yasanta and
  • Vithyacharan Retnasamy

13 October 2025

The current study aims to address the research gap regarding inconsistent findings on the effect of environmental knowledge (EK) in enhancing green purchase intention (GPI) by incorporating pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and environmental concern (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,504 Views
16 Pages

In the current competition process of e-commerce platforms, the technical and algorithmic wars that can quickly grasp user needs and accurately recommend target commodities are the core tools of platform competition. At the same time, the existing on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
23,222 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2022

This paper explores the relationship between consumers’ public self-consciousness, purchase behavior, post-purchase regret, and time-limited promotions in e-commerce. Time-limited flash sales have become a common promotion strategy in e-commerc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,950 Views
23 Pages

The Moderating Effect of Price on the Relationship Between Environmental Attitude and the Purchase Behavior of Organic Products

  • Iris Castillo-Plaza,
  • Nelson Carrión-Bósquez,
  • Andrés García-Umaña,
  • Oscar Ortiz-Regalado,
  • Ximena Tobar-Cazares,
  • Franklin Naranjo-Armijo,
  • Cristina Villacís-Mejía,
  • Lenin Tobar-Cazares and
  • Rodrigo Arévalo-Mejía

18 October 2025

Although previous research has highlighted the role of environmental concerns, responsibility, knowledge, and social norms in shaping sustainable consumption, the persistence of the intention–action gap remains a key challenge, particularly in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,699 Views
16 Pages

Consumer Ethnocentrism and Country of Origin: Effects on Online Consumer Purchase Behavior in Times of a Pandemic

  • Luis José Camacho,
  • Patricio Esteban Ramírez-Correa and
  • Cristian Salazar-Concha

29 December 2021

Electronic commerce has shown exponential growth over the past decade, but the impact of COVID-19 has exceeded all expectations. Based on the theory of planned behavior, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between consumer ethnocentrism a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,852 Views
23 Pages

In the era of digital economy and mobile internet, many platforms or brands have built various online or offline green communities to guide customers or fans to engage in green interactions. Obviously, community green interaction can enhance brand em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,760 Views
22 Pages

19 September 2024

Green purchasing behavior refers to the potential of consumers to reduce the impact on the environment and the excessive loss of natural resources in the procurement process as far as possible under the premise of meeting their own needs. This behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,325 Views
20 Pages

Consumer Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Consumer Purchase Behavior: Evidence from E-Commerce and Online Retail in Hungary

  • Pejman Ebrahimi,
  • Khadija Aya Hamza,
  • Eva Gorgenyi-Hegyes,
  • Hadi Zarea and
  • Maria Fekete-Farkas

17 September 2021

The twenty-first century has been full of fundamental changes in consumers’ behavior patterns, especially with the use of diverse social media knowledge-sharing platforms. Therefore, companies have highlighted the significance of knowledge sharing an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
186 Citations
57,533 Views
40 Pages

31 May 2021

Environmental deterioration brought about by consumers’ non-feasible utilization pattern is putting a pressure on the environment and is obstructing sustainable development. To hinder this impact and stimulate a more sustainable economic growth, one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,399 Views
16 Pages

Modeling Environmentally Conscious Purchase Behavior: Examining the Role of Ethical Obligation and Green Self-Identity

  • Rakesh Kumar,
  • Kishore Kumar,
  • Rubee Singh,
  • José Carlos Sá,
  • Sandro Carvalho and
  • Gilberto Santos

10 April 2023

Due to environmental degradation, using environment-friendly products has become necessary to reduce carbon emissions. However, the consumption of such products is still below expectations because these products are usually costlier than their tradit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,445 Views
20 Pages

28 December 2021

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a reduction in the overall consumption of dairy products in China. How to restore the consumption potential of dairy products and alleviate the serious impact on the dairy market in the post-epidemic pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
19,423 Views
27 Pages

24 September 2022

For the purpose of paving the way for reducing environmental pollution globally, adapting green energy to people’s lives in more areas is seen as a good solution. The strategic plan implemented to prevent possible energy and water shortages in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,544 Views
18 Pages

17 August 2023

Information on short-term rental platforms plays an important role in consumer purchase behavior. However, information asymmetry between host and guest has been identified as a problem in sharing economy contexts. In this paper, to fill this gap, the...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
33,246 Views
15 Pages

2 August 2023

The green cosmetics industry has witnessed significant growth over the last few years. Simultaneously, scholarly interest in the area has grown. However, overall, the evidence is inconsistent. Despite the growing literature, no systematic review has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,914 Views
20 Pages

23 June 2022

Since energy consumption in developing countries has increased significantly, motivating energy-saving habits among citizens is an important issue both from the academic and industrial perspectives. Thus, this study aims to predict consumer purchase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,668 Views
25 Pages

27 December 2022

This research aims to analyze the effects of perceived environmental responsibility (PER), environmental knowledge (EK), new ecological paradigm (NEP), and environmental collective efficacy (ECE) on the high-quality broiler purchase intention of Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
19,770 Views
20 Pages

19 March 2025

This study introduces a novel construct, Spendception, which conceptualizes the psychological impact of digital payment systems on consumer behavior, marking a significant contribution to the field of consumer psychology and behavioral economics. Spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,837 Views
16 Pages

24 November 2019

This study applies the theory of planned behavior and value–attitude–behavior hierarchy model to examine the influence of green product consumption values on the green product buying attitude and green product purchase behavior. Additiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Citations
57,840 Views
20 Pages

23 October 2016

Green products are among the widely used products worldwide due to their environmental benefits. However, information on the consumers’ purchase intention towards green products in developing countries, such as Thailand, is lacking. This study aims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,658 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2023

This study proposes a random forest model to address the limited explanation of consumer purchase behavior in search advertising, considering the influence of anchoring effects on rational consumer behavior. The model comprises two components: predic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,541 Views
20 Pages

This study attempts to investigate the moderating effect of gender on value-belief-norm relationships. In addition, this study aims to investigate the factors that affect green purchase behavior of cosmetics products. Particularly, this study investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
15,336 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2021

This study examines the impact of green supply chain management (GSCM) on consumers environmentally friendly purchase behavior. We surveyed 283 consumers and analyzed the data using SPSS 18.0, AMOS 18.0, and verified them with structural equation mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,248 Views
19 Pages

This study explores the impact of streamer expression certainty on consumer purchase behavior in live-stream e-commerce and its underlying mechanisms. Based on an empirical analysis of 3842 product live-stream data from the Douyin platform and an exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,829 Views
39 Pages

8 May 2025

This study is based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and focuses on university students in South Korea and China. It explores how the consumption value of sustainable fashion products affects consumers’ purchase intentions. Additionally,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
107 Citations
14,674 Views
18 Pages

Before consequences of climate change continue to intensify and increasingly affect the entire planet, immediate action must be taken. For instance, adopt the pro-environmental behaviors such as purchase of organic food to minimize the harmful human-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
25,143 Views
18 Pages

Social Networks Marketing and Consumer Purchase Behavior: The Combination of SEM and Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches

  • Pejman Ebrahimi,
  • Marjan Basirat,
  • Ali Yousefi,
  • Md. Nekmahmud,
  • Abbas Gholampour and
  • Maria Fekete-Farkas

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how social network marketing (SNM) can affect consumers’ purchase behavior (CPB). We used the combination of structural equation modeling (SEM) and unsupervised machine learning approaches as an innovative...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,312 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2021

Amplified energy demand due to technologically advanced electrical and electronic appliances has accentuated the importance of energy efficiency to overcome energy shortage and environmental concerns. As adoption of energy efficient appliances depend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,517 Views
16 Pages

A Multidimensional Model of Sustainable Renewable Energy Linking Purchase Intentions, Attitude and User Behavior in Nigeria

  • Paul Chibuogwu Ashinze,
  • Jian Tian,
  • Peter Chiedu Ashinze,
  • Mehrab Nazir and
  • Imrab Shaheen

24 September 2021

This study investigates the challenges to Nigeria’s renewable energy growth; specifically, it analyzes the factors that influence the intention to use renewable energy in Nigeria. This paper was based on the theory of planned behavior, the technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
15,247 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2022

Ample research has been conducted in the organic food market and researchers have investigated factors affecting the purchase behavior of consumers in many countries. However, the studies on organic food that integrate the Theory of Planned Behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,566 Views
16 Pages

In recent years, the rice cake market has grown considerably in terms of research and development of products suitable for consumer needs and beneficial to health at the same time. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the number of consumers consuming ant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Views
22 Pages

4 February 2026

Intangible cultural heritage products (ICHPs) function as an important medium through which regional cultural values are communicated within tourism consumption, thereby supporting the sustainability of cultural heritage practices. However, existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,760 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2023

In today’s competitive environment, stimulating and maintaining customer engagement through gamified apps seems essential for gaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Consequently, gamification in marketing apps has garnered increased atten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,395 Views
26 Pages

15 March 2023

Due to income constraints, increased awareness of environmental protection and preference for new products, consumers generate switching purchases between new and remanufactured products, which often lead to a “cannibalization effect” in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,170 Views
24 Pages

14 January 2022

The paper presents survey results from shopping behavior transformation in developed and developing countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in spring 2020. The survey includes the polling process that covered 515 and 117 young adults, respect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
13,697 Views
14 Pages

Why Do Consumers Intend to Purchase Natural Food? Integrating Theory of Planned Behavior, Value-Belief-Norm Theory, and Trust

  • Valentina Carfora,
  • Carla Cavallo,
  • Patrizia Catellani,
  • Teresa Del Giudice and
  • Gianni Cicia

1 June 2021

Natural labels are increasingly present in the market and appreciated by consumers, despite formal regulation still missing. Knowing the psychosocial factors that may predict natural food choice may be useful to understand what drives consumers to ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,092 Views
21 Pages

3 January 2023

Product endorsement has become a common marketing method. Many companies hire a famous person to act as the spokesman for the product and brand. They want to use the celebrity’s fame and attractiveness to promote their products and brands. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
213 Views
20 Pages

8 January 2026

The global demand for argan oil has grown considerably in recent years, creating economic opportunities while raising concerns about ecosystem degradation and the sustainability of production systems. To support long-term viability, several initiativ...

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