Addressing climate change requires profound understanding of consumer behavioral changes at not only at the individual but also on the cultural levels, including the context where consumption practices take place. The plethora of emerging new forms of data enabled by new technologies such as RFID and big data, provide new avenues and opportunities to uncover new trends in sustainable consumer behaviors, with the view to informing strategic and policy implications. The recent UN climate change conference in Glasgow (COP26) and some of the contentious issues, highlighted the heterogeneity across consumption behaviors and activities, which hamper the acceleration towards achieving the goals of the conference to preserve livable climate – low carbon pathway.
The aim of this research topic is to provide insights on the role of personality, contextual, and cultural factors in enabling or constraining sustainable-environmental behavioral changes. The research topic aims to shed light on the complexity of the interplay among the individual, and contextual, and cultural differences that can influence sustainable consumer behaviors and how these impact the effectiveness of policy interventions. This research topic aims to address and importantly challenge current theoretical and methodological approaches to studying personality and cultural factors, with the view of understanding the possible causes and consequences that these factors play, especially in time of unforeseeable changes in the environment (e.g., Covid-19 pandemic). This research topic is particularly relevant and timely in understanding of what we already knew before the unprecedented pandemic and revisit the impact of these factors.
Topics of primary interest for this research topic include, but are not limited to:
• Routines and habits and sustainable consumer behavioral changes
• The role of personal factors i.e. personal norms; the role of self-identity; the role of self-congruity; the influence of place attachment; the role of psychological reactance; the role of emotions; causal attributions; the impact personal (e.g., illness) and situational restrictions (e.g., Covid, natural disaster); the role of demographics (e.g., age, gender, etc.)
• The role of cultural factors i.e. individualism and collectivism; cultural values and norms
• The role of contextual factors i.e. workplace environment; social media influences
• Cross-cultural differences
• Individual, regulatory monitoring and intervention using new forms
of data (e.g., big data, IoT) i.e. cutting-edge technology in measuring and analyzing sustainable consumer behavior; measurement sustainable consumer behavior using IoT data; measuring and analyzing sustainable consumer behavior using data mining
Addressing climate change requires profound understanding of consumer behavioral changes at not only at the individual but also on the cultural levels, including the context where consumption practices take place. The plethora of emerging new forms of data enabled by new technologies such as RFID and big data, provide new avenues and opportunities to uncover new trends in sustainable consumer behaviors, with the view to informing strategic and policy implications. The recent UN climate change conference in Glasgow (COP26) and some of the contentious issues, highlighted the heterogeneity across consumption behaviors and activities, which hamper the acceleration towards achieving the goals of the conference to preserve livable climate – low carbon pathway.
The aim of this research topic is to provide insights on the role of personality, contextual, and cultural factors in enabling or constraining sustainable-environmental behavioral changes. The research topic aims to shed light on the complexity of the interplay among the individual, and contextual, and cultural differences that can influence sustainable consumer behaviors and how these impact the effectiveness of policy interventions. This research topic aims to address and importantly challenge current theoretical and methodological approaches to studying personality and cultural factors, with the view of understanding the possible causes and consequences that these factors play, especially in time of unforeseeable changes in the environment (e.g., Covid-19 pandemic). This research topic is particularly relevant and timely in understanding of what we already knew before the unprecedented pandemic and revisit the impact of these factors.
Topics of primary interest for this research topic include, but are not limited to:
• Routines and habits and sustainable consumer behavioral changes
• The role of personal factors i.e. personal norms; the role of self-identity; the role of self-congruity; the influence of place attachment; the role of psychological reactance; the role of emotions; causal attributions; the impact personal (e.g., illness) and situational restrictions (e.g., Covid, natural disaster); the role of demographics (e.g., age, gender, etc.)
• The role of cultural factors i.e. individualism and collectivism; cultural values and norms
• The role of contextual factors i.e. workplace environment; social media influences
• Cross-cultural differences
• Individual, regulatory monitoring and intervention using new forms
of data (e.g., big data, IoT) i.e. cutting-edge technology in measuring and analyzing sustainable consumer behavior; measurement sustainable consumer behavior using IoT data; measuring and analyzing sustainable consumer behavior using data mining