Consumers’ Drive to Share Knowledge Within a Green Clothing Online Community: Exploring the Roles of Hedonic, Functional, Psychological and Social Participatory Benefits

Rebecca Beech, Lyndon Simkin, Anvita Kumar, Carlos Ferreira

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Abstract

The article explores, what roles do hedonic, social, functional and psychological participatory benefits play within consumers’ knowledge sharing within a green clothing online community on Twitter. Prior literature demonstrates the importance of understanding consumers’ knowledge sharing online, as the latter influences consumers’ decision making and potential attitude and behaviour change. Considering the article context, green clothing, a handful of studies emphasise the prominence of how knowledge shared about pro-environmental behaviour can impact consumers’ adoption of a greener conscience. However, there is a paucity of literature that investigates the consumers’ drive to share knowledge within the context of green clothing. A qualitative research design, entailing two focus groups and 20 semi-structured interviews, is used to gain an in-depth comprehension to understand what drives consumers to share knowledge.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-25
Number of pages25
Publication statusPublished - 2 Sept 2020
EventBAM Conference in the Cloud 2020: Innovating for a Sustainable Future - Oxford Road, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 2 Sept 20204 Sept 2020
https://www.bam.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=3638

Conference

ConferenceBAM Conference in the Cloud 2020
Abbreviated titleBAM2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester
Period2/09/204/09/20
Otheronline
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