Since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, the advance in scientific technology and industrialization has accelerated the rapid 3Ms economic system(Mass production, Mass consumption, Mass distribution). Global economic growth has allo...
Since the Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, the advance in scientific technology and industrialization has accelerated the rapid 3Ms economic system(Mass production, Mass consumption, Mass distribution). Global economic growth has allowed mankind to live a high quality of life with the benefits of material civilization and improved both quality and quantity of human life.
As the environmental issues are becoming social concerns, people has realized the Green Marketing. More organizations of consumers and environmentalists have increasingly been against any activity to pollute and destroy the environment, and the government's legal regulation is getting even stricter. Global restriction on the environment has been increasing to control the corporate marketing.
This study aims at the practical analysis of influence on the consumer's interest in purchasing environment-friendly products by environmental consciousness variables through analyzing structural relation between consumers' environmental knowledge and their effectivity-consciousness on the environment, including Chinese consumers' interest in their environment based on self-inclination in their environment-friendly market. This attempt is to see what factors have an effect on Chinese consumers' environment-friendly actions and their purchase of those products under the environment-friendly industrial environment which has been an international topic, and to provide researchers with suggestions for further study by verifying what influenced. In particular, this will suggest viewpoints necessary to search for the process of the consumers' purchasing environment-friendly products by looking into how different those influences are for each inclination through dividing the consumers' individually pursuing inclination in 2 dimensions.
To reach these purposes, such sundry records have been referred to as the concept of Green consumers, interest in environment, knowledge on the environment, effectivity consciousness on the environment, and the consumers' interest in the environment-friendly products. And the model and the hypothesis for this study have been established for its theoretical reference to influential factors among constitutional concepts, based on both domestic or foreign journals and books.
For the purpose of studying the influential relation of each variable, questionnaire was completed, and then the effect of each variable was shown by analyzing its result practically. In this practical analysis, the followings such as population statistic analysis, reliability analysis, validity analysis, confirmative factor analysis and its path analysis were conducted by using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 after distributing and collecting questionnaires to and from Chinese consumers. And its result and suggestion are also shown on based on the result of the practical analysis.
The results of hypothesis validification are followings;
This study, firstly, can be made use of for helpful models to see what cause-effect relation with these variables forms between consumers' environmental consciousness and environment-friendly consumers' interest by dividing in two dimensions self-inclination which is a social-psychologic variable into independent and inter-dependent ones, apart from studies on the environment friendly consumers' actions so far involved in Chinese market circumstances targeting Chinese consumers.
Secondly, it shows that consumers with independent self-inclination don't have any effect on both interest in environment and consumers' effectivity consciousness, but on both knowledge about the environment and their interest in purchasing environment friendly products positively.
Thirdly, it shows that consumers with interdependent self-inclination are influenced by such environment conscious variables as interest in environment, knowledge about the environment and consumers' effectivity consciousness.
Fourthly, it is shown that consumers with interdependent self-inclination do not have a direct influence on their consumers' interest, but have an effect on their interest in purchasing environment-friendly products by parameters of their interest in environmental issues and their effectivity consciousness. In addition, it is shown that consumers with interdependent self-inclination have an influence on their knowledge about environmental issues, through which they have no influence on their interest in purchasing environment friendly products. Besides, consumers with interdependent self-inclination have shown that their purchasing interest is positively influenced by their concerns in the environmental issues and through their effectivity consciousness.
To sum up these results is as followings;
First of all, even though this shows that consumers with independent self-inclination are positively influenced by their knowledge about the environments, there is nothing influential purchasing actions through their knowledge. And it is shown that consumers with independent self-inclination have a positive effect on their purchasing interest in environment friendly products.
This result is consistent with that of Schultz and Zelezny(1999) “Consumers with independent self-inclination think that environmental conservation is something needed not to damage themselves, but it isn't related with others' welfare, based on the belief that environmental pollution will cause themselves to be damaged.”
Even though consumers with independent self-inclination purchase environment friendly products, they are likely to have a high possibility of doing environment friendly actions for the sake of themselves although they have no interest in the environment friendly. If any corporations or authorities concerned want to expand environment friendly markets, they need to encourage not only consumers with inter-dependent self-inclination but also those with independent self-inclination to participate in the environment friendly market. Briefly, it's necessary for consumers with independent self-inclination to be the main target for the effective management of marketing.
Secondly, because consumers themselves and their acquaintances, like their parents, friends, and colleagues, are a high priority in Chinese consumers with interdependent self-inclination, there shows a positive influence in such environmental consciousness variables as the interest in the environmental issues, the knowledge about the environment, and their effectivity consciousness about the environment.
This is because Chinese consumers think that they need to pass the environment conserved on to their offsprings. Chinese consumers, however, seem to have no considerable knowledge about how to conserve their environment under the rapid economic development. Therefore, the government and corporations leading the economic development need to carry out promotional strategy cooperatively such as environment friendly campaign and events for conservation.
Thirdly, corporations should meet Chinese consumers' needs to build their reliability. They should establish more concepts and strategies for the environment friendly to enhance the cost effectiveness through more investment in R&D strategy for the environment friendly production.
Fourthly, government and the third centers need to produce more educational programs related with the environment friendly for both more promotion of the environmental knowledge and more experience in the environment friendly products. That is why they need to establish the strategy to increase Chinese consumers' interest in purchasing the environment friendly products by motivating Chinese consumers to be interest in their environment and to be more aware of their environmental consciousness.