Why Marketing Managers Act Sustainable – and Why Not: Towards a Sustainability Acceptance Model

Chiara Janina Hübscher, Jörg Henseler, Susanne Hensel-Börner

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Abstract

Marketing activities can educate consumers, influence their behaviour, and change the product offering. Therefore, the decisions of marketing managers play an important role in achieving the twelfth Sustainable Development Goal on "Responsible consumption and production" (SDG 12). Understanding and creating the conditions under which marketing managers implement marketing activities that promote sustainable development is thus a priority research topic. Based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this paper conceptualises the variables that underlie decision-making for sustainable marketing activities. The resulting Sustainability Acceptance Model (SAM) has the potential to explain marketing managers' acceptance of sustainable marketing activities versus their nonsustainable alternative and thus form the basis for future empirical research as well as for policy design in the context of sustainable development in general and SDG 12 in particular.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusAccepted/In press - May 2024
Event53rd EMAC Annual Conference 2024 - Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Duration: 28 May 202431 May 2024
Conference number: 53

Conference

Conference53rd EMAC Annual Conference 2024
Abbreviated titleEMAC 2024
Country/TerritoryRomania
CityBucharest
Period28/05/2431/05/24

Keywords

  • Sustainable marketing
  • Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
  • SDG

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