Contribution of Green Home Appliances in the Green Economy

Understanding the Determinants of Green Buying Behavior

by Dr. Chidanand G. Byahatti*, Dr. Sanjay S. Hanagandi,

- Published in International Journal of Information Technology and Management, E-ISSN: 2249-4510

Volume 16, Issue No. 2, Aug 2021, Pages 14 - 21 (8)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

Environmental deterioration achieved by customers' non-practical usage design is squeezing the climate and is deterring manageable turn of events. To ruin this effect and animate a more feasible economic development, one arrangement is to diminish or move use designs from traditional items to eco-friendly items. The creators directed an audit investigation of green buy conduct research across the 6-year period from 2015 to 2021, distinguishing 108 examinations that met our incorporation rules. The current survey recognizes distinctive unavoidable facilitators, intentions, and snags affecting customers' dynamic cycle towards environmentally friendly items, and it gives likely explanations for logical inconsistencies found in green buy conduct (GPB). The paper uncovers the fundamental determinants of purchaser's GPB, and in light of the survey, 212 factors that influence green buy aim (GPI) were distinguished. In addition, 135 determinants that influence GPB were recorded. Thusly, other than adding to the writing, it will help policymakers in detailing and utilizing techniques to convince eco-friendly buying, and it will offer a chance for advertisers to create appropriate promoting systems for attracting customers and ensuring ideal deals.

KEYWORD

green home appliances, green economy, environmental deterioration, eco-friendly items, green buy conduct

INTRODUCTION

"The issue more convoluted than the climate is the human brain research that influences customer impression of the environmental issue and how it propels buying propensities" (Ken Peattie, 2014) "Green" has been the popular expression since the time the issues like climatic change, contamination, and asset shortage began collecting consideration and worry at worldwide meets. These issues surfaced in view of the loosened human mentality towards the climate and began showing in various structures making caution and a staggering flood in worry across the globe. Governments, environmentalists, social activists and scientists began supporting the requirement for favorable to environmental conduct and restorative activity to battle the evil impacts caused because of careless and casual methodology towards the climate. High-energy consumption, higher ecological footprinting and rising fossil fuel byproducts have negatively affected the energy stores and climate. It has given us this astounding inquiry that while we consider leaving behind us abundance for the following ages, are we leaving behind a planet fit for maintaining and supporting life for the people in the future. There are many components, which have prompted the desperate status we are in. The simple accessibility of nonrenewable assets, absence of mindfulness, absence of solid administrative system all were contributory powers, which prompted the carelessness towards the climate. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the pride of holding the world's 6th biggest oil saves and the fifth biggest flammable gas saves. The hydrocarbon-rich nation neglected the effect of its liberal and non-prudential utilization of its rich stores. The need to contemplate protection was rarely felt, as lack was not expected. The repercussions surfaced as high ecological and carbon footprinting, because of which the nation was reliably positioned high among the rundown of world's ecologically inefficient nations, among nations with high carbon footprinting and energy consumption per capita. Ecological impression is a method of checking a country's manageability by contrasting the use of its regular assets per occupant per capita and is indicated as a unit of bio-useful land which is called as the 'worldwide hectare' (gha). The remedial measures and green drives that were taken by the Government showed some sure change as the country slided down from the top situation to the third spot in 2012. The impression per individual living in the UAE has shown a decrease from 9.5 worldwide hectares in 2010 to 8.4 worldwide hectare in 2012. The UAE was set third in the Living Planet Report 2014 with the ecological impression going down to 7.75 worldwide hectares per capita. The overall asset for nature (WWF) has been delivering a report named

been getting a predominant situation in this report. The nation positioned high in the rundown of nations with greatest outflows per capita during the 2014s. There was an increment of 25% in all out carbon discharge between the years 2006 and 2008 just as a flood of 20% in per capita emanations during this residency. UAE has been accounted for to be one among the nations with most extreme carbon impressions on the planet. According to the UAE State of Energy Report distributed in January 2015, the nation has created around 20 tons of CO2 emanations per individual in 2010, which was 63% more than the CO2 discharges delivered per individual in 2014. In like manner, the country's per capita greenhouse gas discharges remained at 24.16 tons, as per the report. The UAE delivered 199.65 million tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in 2013 as indicated by the Ministry of Energy. The disturbing energy consumption insights of Dubai as given by the utility (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) uncover that a normal individual burn-through 20,000 kilowatt-long stretches of energy each year. This figure is 82% higher than the worldwide normal and is multiple occasions the normal per capita consumption recorded in the European Union. As indicated by Heliocentris, a German market pioneer in energy saving arrangements, roughly 1.8 billion megawatt long periods of energy was used by the nation to deliver a yearly GDP of $377 billion of every 2013. This energy identical was adequate for fueling every one of the families in the country for more than 15 years and roughly controlling an incredible 70 million families an entire year. As indicated by an examination report by World Resources Institute, the nation has luxuriously utilized 481 tons of oil comparable ("toe") for each $1m of its GDP in 2013. While a nation like Japan, which has, more metropolitan populace like UAE just uses 154 toes for each $1 million of GDP, which mirrors the critical need to legitimize consumption. The energy devoured to accomplish an all out yearly GDP of $377 billion out of 2013 compares to an amazing 1.8 billion Megawatt-hours. The correlation of consumption figures with the world principles feature the stunning measure of energy squandered and the possibility to check the wastage.

Green products

'Green' is one of the freshest item characterizations. The items, which are made through green innovation, and cause no environmental risks, are called green items. An item that is produced in a manageable way from inexhaustible and recyclable assets be green. A Green item is a new expansion to the scope of classifications as green mechanical merchandise, green customer products, green consumables and green durables. Retailers and engineers of green cleansers are alluded to as green items. The meaning of green showcasing stresses item contributions that are not unsafe to the climate, however it doesn't address the creation measures utilized to set up the items. The two sorts of green items are outright green items and relative green items. Outright green items are those, which can add to the improvement of society or the climate. The general green items, whose cases to greenness lies in the decrease of the genuine or potential damage they cause to the climate. The idea of planning green items is changing to more manageable parts or fixings, or disposing of environmentally destructive substances. While items are intended to meet the necessities for execution being used, green items might be changed to work on their eco-execution during produce. During the creation, yet additionally during the utilization and after the removal or end of the existence of the item, it can prompt major environmental risks. Any item, which has lesser environmental effects when contrasted with some other item with comparable capacity or application, is considered as a 'green item'. The achievement of a green item will rely upon the customer's view of the two its green presentation and its essential exhibition. Greater part of shoppers accepts that improved eco-execution will include a decreased specialized presentation. The green items ought not devour a lopsided measure of energy and different assets during production, use or removal. Such items are those made through green innovation. The connection between the climate, the business that works inside it and their items are numerous faceted. Items advertised dependent on what they don't contain incorporate sans lead petroleum, added substance free food sources and pitilessness free beauty care products. 'Green' additionally alludes to eco cognizant shopper. Climate friendly, eco-friendly, nature-friendly and green is advertising terms alluding to labor and products. When a customer distinguishes an item as green, the person in question needs to obviously comprehend the advantages of such an item to see esteem in the buy. Purchaser worth could result from an assortment of components including wellbeing thought, charitable inspiration, and discernment or status-related concerns. The Green shoppers can reliably and fundamentally, separate item buys for the climate. They are generally worried about issues like lessening their carbon impression; fuel use and embrace squander the executive‘s works on, reusing, bundling and use items with regular fixings, less synthetic substances and natural items. recognized the requirement for expanded customer mindfulness on eco-friendly or green items. To recognize the climate friendly items the eco-marking plan was presented as 'Ecomark'. Throughout the most recent twenty years Indian shoppers are environmentally cognizant, especially the working class customers. An eco-name is a mark, which recognizes an item on its environmental inclination inside an item class dependent on life cycle thought. Eco marking is just a sort of environmental naming that advises the shoppers about the general environmental nature of the item. The green seal gives an official endorsement to an assortment of items that meet explicit standard on a class by classification premise. Coming up next are the some 'Ecomarks' for green products. Eco-names assume an essential part to give an immediate connection among items and shoppers. An item with eco marks consents to climate without hurting the nature. Along these lines, eco-items are climate friendly, non-harmful and reasonable items. Eco names are a brilliant method to upgrade validity for green promoting claims. Ecolabels and green stickers are marking frameworks for food and purchaser items. There are a wide range of eco names being utilized all throughout the planet. It is presently an exceptionally valuable apparatus to energize environmental practices for governments and to distinguish and build up business sectors ie., homegrown and international for ventures to advance their green items. Numerous nations have embraced some sort of eco market. From the Indian situation, the turn of events and execution of principles for green items will achieve an adjustment of the market accessibility of green items and lift maintainable consumption and creation in India. information on green items and insignificant data revelation on the equivalent. Precursors and results of shoppers' environmentally friendly convictions and conduct influence in non-industrial nations like India. Environmentalism and social concern, which influenced organizations in the last part of the 1960s and mid 1970s, were independent strands in a more everywhere reappraisal of social qualities and the job of establishments like business and government. The green development, which arose during the last part of the 1980s, addresses a combination of various concerns going from individuals who wish to ensure climate by utilizing Eco-friendly items to those worried about environmental issues. Taking into account the general worry about the climate being shown by shoppers all throughout the planet and they want to buy greener items from greener organizations. The national geographic and Globe examine customer Greendex, is a logically inferred maintainable consumption record of real buyer conduct and material ways of life across 18 nations. On looking at across nations, both among the created and agricultural countries, the shoppers' goals to further develop their buy propensities, from among India give off an impression of being the most effectively affected to change when educated with regards to their own effect on the climate. The purchasers who as of now show conduct that is somewhat reasonable and discovered that their conduct is better than expected according to an environmental perspective. This recommends that encouraging feedback is logical an integral asset for empowering conduct change among buyers. The table 1 shows the Greendex score across the nations.

Table 1.1 Greendex Score across Countries

Source: Greendex survey, 2014

environmental issues. It has been tracked down that Top-scoring buyers of the 2014 Greendex study are in the creating economics of India and China, in slipping request, trailed by shoppers in South Korea, Brazil and Argentina. Indian and Chinese customers scored the most noteworthy. India has gotten first situation in the biggest consumption of natural food consumption.

Green home appliances

The idea of green home machines has been point by point. The section features the portion of families in the force consumption situation also, how little changes here can get the more prominent outcome. The possibility to save energy and cash through the reasonable utilization of energy saving home apparatuses has been featured in this part. This part additionally presents an outline on the shopper tough area; explicitly the home apparatuses area and the UAE market elements at full scale and miniature level. The different green drives taken by the corporate area to support green consumption in UAE and other nations have been featured in this part. Likewise, the part presents the steady pretended by different Government associations towards the reason.

The role of households and home appliances in saving energy

Families are answerable for around 75 % of the country's carbon impression. Home machines represent a critical part of family CO2 outflows. Mindfulness starts at home. A family is the structure square of the public and home machines are the fundamental force customers in a family. Consequently, they are the smartest choices to save energy at the family level. In the event that families save energy, the country saves the energy and along these lines the ideal spot to start the green change at the customer level is through the home apparatuses area. As per the Ecological Footprint Initiative, the families represent around 57% of UAE's ecological impression and as per Dewa, the private area is the second most elevated force devouring unit.

Saving energy with GHA

Green apparatuses are energy effective as well as eco-friendly. Apparatuses over 10 years of age are clunkers as they go through the greater part of the energy. On the off chance that purchasers supplant them with energy proficient machines, it won't just save billions of kilowatts of energy every year yet additionally billions of huge loads of fossil fuel byproducts universally. The majority of the home apparatuses have a more drawn out life. Consequently, its medium to long haul advantages ought to be gauged while settling on a buy choice. clients can have a major effect by picking green items. Over the long haul the utilization of home machines impacts family bills and energy impression Using green items for warming and cooling prerequisites will definitely lessen energy consumption. Overhauling the families with CFL or LED lighting could likewise moderate energy. Eco-friendly fridges are more than 15-20% more energy productive because of their further developed protection and blowers. Energy saving TVs are 25% more energy proficient than customary models. Some are even furnished with movement sensors and can turn themselves off when movements are unseen. Also, a top of the line energy effective clothes washer utilizes a fourth of the energy of the most un-productive machine and a large portion of the energy of the normal machine while saving £8 (50 AED) every year on power bills and decrease in CO2 outflows by 42Kg. A top of the line dishwasher would utilize 40% less energy saving £16 (AED 100) yearly on service bills and 85 kg of CO2 emanations. A first class cooler/cooler would save £37 (AED 231) every year on service bills and 150kg of fossil fuel byproducts HVAC are utilized as often as possible in the country as a result of the great summer temperature and record for 40% of a structure's all out energy consumption. Energy effective machines could subsequently save the shopper essentially on energy consumption and cost. The HVAC models incorporate remote, distant and modified controls, and coordinated controls that can astutely deal with a structure's cooling framework by surveying individuals' development, estimating climate conditions, and adjusting top and off-top burden plans and channelizing water use for cooling towers. Execution of the star rating framework for energy-effective buyer machines was begun in 2013. Cooling items were evaluated and marked in mid 2013, trailed by home clothing apparatuses in mid-2013. This move was intended to be reached out to different classes of shopper apparatuses too. As indicated in terms of professional career reports, this drive will bring about gigantic energy saving to the country. It was accounted for that the energy reserve funds may add up to AED 400 M for every annum by 2016 from just cooling items. At the point when this training is stretched out to different classifications of home machines, the investment funds will be tremendous for the country. In case individuals know and prepared to move to green home machines, huge loads of CO2 outflows could be cut. The home machines area assumes an unmistakable part in taking the Green Marketing Practices to the shopper level in the public. At the point when 'Earth hour' was seen in UAE by winding down the lights for 60 minutes, Dubai alone saved large on force and fossil fuel byproducts by noticing

Table 1.2 Savings from Earth hour

This data features the way that little advances can prompt huge goliath jumps. Families are the beginning stage to cause green movements. On the off chance that stamping one hour a year could prompt such large force reserve funds, then, at that point if the occupants utilize green home machines in their daily existence, the investment funds and advantages would be multifold.

OBJECTIVES

1. To dissect the green items buy choice winning among the respondents. 2. To decide the mindfulness level of green home machines among the Consumers.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

In request to comprehend the clients' acquisition of green items and distinguish the relaxed connection among expectation and determinants of green items buy, it is important to comprehend their buy choice. The explanations for such choice is brought out through application model like Theory of Reasoned Action and Theory of Planned Behavior created by Fishbein and Ajzen(1975). Mainieri et al., (2014) in their examination on "Green Buying: The Influence of Environmental Concern on Consumer Behavior" explored the factors that anticipate "green purchasing" i.e., purchasing items that are environmentally useful. Indicator factors included mindfulness about environmental effects of items, explicit environmental convictions of customers, a few general environmental mentality scales, segment factors, and a few favorable to climate practices other than purchasing conduct. 201 respondents addressed a composed survey, sent to haphazardly choose occupants of eight middleclass networks in the Los Angeles region. The aftereffects of progressive different relapse examinations upheld the speculations under investigation that Specific customer convictions anticipated a few green-purchasing factors just as broad environmental perspectives, while general environmental purchasing and on the environmental demeanor scales. Kaiser and Wilson (2014) directed examination on "Evaluating individuals' General Ecological Behavior: A Cross Culture Measure". The examination results uncovered that the General Ecological Behavior (GEB) scale can be applied diversely. The scale was proposed to be moderately open, and not bound to a specific arrangement of ecological practices. Survey information from 686 California understudies were contrasted and the first Swiss alignment information. Dependability, inward consistency, and segregate legitimacy reviewed that the GEB could be applied to the California understudies just as to the Swiss example, which comprised of more seasoned grown-ups, because the GEB measure utilizes conduct challenges brought about by situational impacts. Carmen Tanner and Sybille Wolfong Kast (2003) in their examination named "Advancing Sustainable Consumption: Determinants of Green Purchases by Swiss Consumers" expected to uncover individual and logical obstructions to customers' acquisition of green food and to fortify information about estimating green buy. The irregular inspecting technique was utilized to choose 745 families and the overview instrument was tried to gauge the shopping conduct of single individual families. The invalid theory was embraced, from which it has been distinguished that shopping in the interest of the family is as yet accomplished more by ladies than the men, which is tried utilizing relationship grid and different relapse. It was tracked down that green food buy was worked with by uplifting perspectives of customers. Kilbourne and Pickett (2007) in their examination on "What Materialism means for Environmental Beliefs, Concern and Environmentally Responsible Behavior" analyzed the connection between realism, environmental convictions, environmental concern, and environmental practices. The examination utilized an irregular phone study of 337 US grown-ups. Utilizing a causal displaying approach, the examination exhibited that realism negatively affects environmental convictions and these convictions decidedly influence environmental concern and environmentally dependable practices. Youthful et al., (2008) analyzed Sustainable Consumption: Green Consumer Behavior when Purchasing Products". The investigation pushed that the "mentality/conduct hole" or "qualities/activity hole" is the place where 30% of shoppers announced that they are extremely worried about environmental issues however they are attempting to make an interpretation of the equivalent into buys. The paper examined the buying system for green purchasers corresponding to customer innovation

A green customer buying model was created and a triumph measure for shutting the hole between green shopper's qualities and their conduct was set up. The paper presumed that impetuses and single issue names would assist buyers with concentrating their restricted endeavors. Tahir Albayrak et al., (2010) did an examination on "Bunching Consumers as per their Environmental Concerns and Scepticisms". The target of the examination was to comprehend and quantify the environmentally touchy conduct of purchasers and to bunch them as indicated by their environmental concerns and scepticisms. The arbitrary example technique was utilized to choose number of the respondents and the overview instrument was utilized to comprehend environmental concern and suspicion. The invalid speculations were tried to acknowledge environmental concern utilizing relapse and group investigation. It was discovered that customers' environmentally touchy buy conduct was thought to be affected emphatically by their environmental concerns, yet contrarily by their suspicions. Fariddeddin Allameh Haery et al., (2013) in their examination on "Impact of Green Marketing on Consumer Purchase Intention concerning the Company's Image as Mediator in Retail setting Case Study: Customers of Naghshe-e Jahan Sugar Company" researched the impact of green advertising on buyer's goal to buy by considering the corporate picture as a between mediatory in retail-deal climate. The measurable populace included residents who were past 20 year old in Isfahan region and the information was gathered from 200 84 respondents. For information examination in unmistakable measurements segment, guidelines like recurrence, per centage, mean and standard deviation were utilized. In inferential insights area, examination of underlying conditions models and t-test were utilized to test the theories. The outcomes showed that green advertising significantly affected social obligation and item picture. The impact of green promoting on corporate standing isn't huge and three elements of corporate picture directly affected aim to buy. Given to circuitous impacts among the factors, green showcasing significantly affected expectation to buy. Harikumar and Ebby Joseph (2012) directed an investigation on "Attention to Environmental Protection Laws and Green Marketing among the Customers of Automobile Industries". The target of the investigation was to comprehend environmental demeanor of the clients and their impact on perspectives on green items. Basic arbitrary inspecting technique used to choose 150 clients of vehicle items and overview instrument was utilized to quantify the client's disposition. The invalid theories uplifting perspectives of the clients towards environmental assurance did not work with the client mentalities of green items. Balderjahn (2014) directed an examination on "Character Variables and Environmental Attitudes as Predictors of Ecologically Responsible Consumption Patterns", uncovered that segment, socioeconomic, social, character, and attitudinal factors were determined to foresee five distinct examples of ecologically dependable consumption. A relaxed model of ecologically concerned buyers was investigated by the LISREL (Linear Structural Relations), approach. The outcomes proposed that each personal conduct standard had its own bunch of indicators, albeit the ecologically concerned customer has a place with the upper social classes. The outcomes introduced can give an establishment to display division techniques and for instructive projects of strategy creators. Harsh (2014) in his examination named "New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally critical Behavior", fostered an applied system for propelling speculations of environmentally huge individual conduct and covered the endeavors of the creator's exploration gathering and others to foster such a hypothesis. The examination characterized environmentally critical conduct; groups the practices and their causes; surveyed speculations of environmentalism, zeroing in particularly on esteem conviction standard hypothesis; assesses the connection between environmental concern and conduct; and summed up proof on the not really set in stone environmentally huge practices and that can viably change them. The investigation closed by introducing some significant suggestions upheld by accessible examination and a few standards for directing future exploration and advising the plan regarding conduct programs for environmental protection.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The Exploration system was same for the three targets. The thing that matters was uniquely in the factors recognized to quantify the develops. To address the multi-social socioeconomics of UAE, Stratified Random testing was utilized. The example size was determined with Taro Yamane's recipe and an organized survey was utilized as an examination instrument. Unwavering quality and legitimacy tests were made on the examination instrument, which was likewise pilot tried and adjusted dependent on the contributions from pilot testing. Information assortment traversed for three weeks. Information was gathered by both web overview mode and individual meeting mode. green hole, either contrarily or emphatically, are by and large extensively examined by scholastics in the field of natural brain science and related disciplines. Later on, study endeavors should focus on the determinants and settings supporting positive eco-accommodating remuneration conduct, essentially character characteristics. The factors that add to keeping a detached condition of conflicting conduct should likewise be analyzed. Moreover, examines that all the more unequivocally incorporate green standards into utilization conduct are needed to move past basically lessening natural effects on testing the crucial impracticality of numerous parts of customer ways of life in present day economies. Moreover, an extremely deficient number of exploration studies have investigated eco-names as a determinant of eco-accommodating utilization, and how mark content may modify view of the item has still not been researched. Future investigations must, subsequently, break down what the plan of the name means for mentalities towards an item, and as a result, the aim to purchase. In addition, the creators propose that makers ought to likewise begin focusing on the substance that is accessible via online media stages in regards to their items and that they should find out more about electronic informal (eWOM). It has become important to comprehend different drivers that go about as predecessors and that can influence human practices, for example, purchasing conduct, because of web-based media use. In this specific circumstance, the current audit prescribes that organizations pay more thought to fostering their brands via web-based media and building up their relations with expected clients and individual clients, to such an extent that they can keep in contact with their clients to satisfy their prerequisites. Also, future examination should zero in additional on the idea of eWOM. Thusly, scholastics can configuration more investigations to fathom the drivers and instruments that impact purchasers' GPB, grounded on their dependence via web-based media stages for seeking after manageability related data in creating and created nations. Generally speaking, the audit suggests that the green whole wonder can't be settled soon, and all things considered, it should keep on being expansively researched

CONCLUSION

The item is the foundation of the promoting blend. The opposition in the market affects the exercises of the firm. Hence, the advertisers are progressively observing the activity of their rivals and get the input from the buyers' encounters of the organizations' items. Right now, the promoting activity is encircled by environmental contemplations and advertising system related with environmentally touchy items just as utilizing and disposing of items. Critically, these activities need the shoppers' discernment and demeanor of items buy choice. Hence, it is basic to way mirrors their segment attributes and culture, however it additionally mirrors an individual's exercises, interests and assessments. Customer buys are most affected by the buyer's current and wanted way of life. The aftereffects of this investigation might assist advertisers with considering the variables that influence green item advancement dependent on changes in consumption design. The discoveries would help advertisers in alteration procedures on buyer buy and consumption just as towards policymaking.

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Corresponding Author Dr. Chidanand G. Byahatti*

Assistant Professor, BLDEA's A. S. Patil College of Commerce (Autonomous), Vijayapur, Karnataka chidanandmba@gmail.com