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Above and beyond? How businesses can drive sustainable development by promoting lasting pro‐environmental behaviour change: An examination of the IKEA Live Lagom project
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Amy Isham ,
Birgitta Gatersleben
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 1037 - 1050
Swansea University Author:
Amy Isham
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/bse.2668
Abstract
Current global changes require new business approaches driving sustainable development on all fronts. To date, most business approaches have focused on sustainable marketing and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In this field study, we examine IKEA's Live Lagom project, a 3-year beha...
| Published in: | Business Strategy and the Environment |
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| ISSN: | 0964-4733 1099-0836 |
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Wiley
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61460 |
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Current global changes require new business approaches driving sustainable development on all fronts. To date, most business approaches have focused on sustainable marketing and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In this field study, we examine IKEA's Live Lagom project, a 3-year behaviour change initiative that aimed to explore how to go above and beyond conventional approaches demonstrating how businesses could support sustainable development by supporting their customers' attempts to live more sustainable lifestyles. We examined the effectiveness of the project involving multifaceted behaviour change interventions, testing for behavioural changes both during and after the project period. In addition, we explored changes in participants' attitudes towards the company. Findings show that the extensive set of interventions led to changes in pro-environmental behaviours across all three participant groups with potentially positive impacts on the customer–company relationship. The article thus provides a call for further businesses to engage in similar behaviour change projects that would allow citizens to engage in more sustainable lifestyles and behaviours across contexts. |
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| Keywords: |
behaviour change, IKEA, intervention, pro-environmental behaviour, responsible business,retailer, sustainable lifestyles |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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2 |
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1037 |
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1050 |