| Title |
Integrating fair trade with circular economy: Personality traits, consumer engagement, and ethically-minded behavior |
| ID_Doc |
1436 |
| Authors |
Kutaula, S; Gillani, A; Leonidou, LC; Christodoulides, P |
| Title |
Integrating fair trade with circular economy: Personality traits, consumer engagement, and ethically-minded behavior |
| Year |
2022 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.044 |
| Abstract |
With the concept of circular economy gaining increasing momentum, its connection to consumer behavior, particularly focusing on fair trade, has been relatively unexplored. Building on cognitive-affective personality system theory, we examine the role of consumer personality traits as drivers of fair trade engagement and its subsequent impact on ethically-minded behavior concerning circular economy issues. Adopting a mixed-method approach, comprising a quantitative survey among 323 consumers in the UK and India and a qualitative study among 18 British consumers, we found that extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness positively affect consumer fair trade engagement, whereas neuroticism has a negative effect, and openness has no significant impact. Consumer fair trade engagement was subsequently revealed to positively influence ethically-minded behavior related to circular economy. The association between consumer fair trade engagement and ethicallyminded behavior was stronger in older, more educated, and high-income consumers, whereas gender had no moderating role. |
| Author Keywords |
Circular economy; Consumer engagement; Consumer ethics; Fair trade; Personality traits |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000791312900015 |
| WoS Category |
Business |
| Research Area |
Business & Economics |
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