Consuming Responsibly: Exploring Environmentally Responsible Consumption Behaviors

This study aims to identify environmentally responsible consumption behaviors as practiced by consumers of developing and developed economies. A qualitative approach, using data collected through 27 semi-structured depth interviews (for identifying behaviors undertaken by consumers of a developing economy—India), and numerous posts and comments from the blog wehatetowaste.com (for identifying behaviors undertaken by consumers of developed economies), was adopted. A total of eight and seven environmentally responsible consumption behaviors were identified in a developing and developed economies context, respectively. This study provides a much needed, comprehensive understanding of consumers' environmentally responsible consumption behaviors in the context of both developing and developed economies.     

投资对消费影响的比较分析

本文研究了优化投资结构促消费的可能性。一般均衡模型分析表明,虽然政府主导的基础设施投资能促进特定商品的消费,但对总消费率不利;企业投资既能促进关联商品的消费,更能促进总消费率提升。基于2007—2018年省级面板数据的实证分析验证了上述判断:以公路为代表的基础设施投资促进了汽车消费,但政府投资对总消费率有挤出效应;企业主导的软件开发等投资对电子商务消费产生了持续的促进作用,企业投资对总消费率产生了挤入效应,但需假以时日才逐步显现。因此,应通过压缩政府投资空间、调动企业投资积极性,并将投资重心转向以新基建为代表的新兴领域,以优化投资结构,促进消费水平的提高。     

探析雇主品牌建设对组织员工的影响

在经济发展中,经营者和学者对雇主品牌建设的兴趣大大增加.企业已经将雇主品牌作为吸引和留住人才的重要工具,雇主品牌成为激烈竞争的市场中企业可持续发展的重要策略.如果企业没有注意到这一策略,会导致它失去自己的市场.一旦企业给予雇主品牌建设更多的关注,员工往往会更长久地留在企业.雇主品牌建设有利于在整个企业内建立良好的关系,...     

经济寒流中,烟火依“燃”——卷烟市场消费稳字当先

<正>据报道,受金融危机影响,越南卷烟消费者的卷烟消费档次和数量都已经发生明显变化。作为占全球1/3烟民数量的烟草消费大国——中国,在金融危机的影响下,卷烟消费状况会有什么样的变化呢?     

收入分配对消费需求的影响研究

有效需求由两部分组成,一部分为投资需求,一部分为消费需求。收入分配是影响消费需求的一个重要因素。研究结果表明城镇居民收入差距的扩大、地区收入差距的扩大,是导致城镇居民消费倾向下降、消费需求不足的重要原因。政府应采取积极的财政政策,通过各种手段,合理调整收入分配差距。     

六成计划购车者观望

<正>随着美国次贷危机引发的金融风暴席卷全球,中国车市进入了严冬时期,汽车整体产销形势比较严峻。在政府积极出台救市政策、厂商推出新车刺激市场、经销商纷纷打出大幅让利冲刺销量时,汽车消费者此时又是怎样的心态在当前经济和政策形势的大环境下,居民购车又呈现出怎样的变化趋势     

社会规范对绿色消费的影响及作用机制

绿色消费是我国推进生态文明建设所倡导的消费行为,本文将社会规范划分为描述性规范、动态描述性规范和命令性规范,探讨了社会规范对绿色消费的影响及作用机制。通过两个实验研究发现,描述性规范、动态描述性规范、命令性规范对绿色消费的促进作用显著,三者对绿色消费的促进作用无显著差异;描述性规范、动态描述性规范会激活消费者的个人规范,个人规范在描述性规范、动态描述性规范影响绿色消费过程中发挥部分中介作用;命令性规范会引发消费者的后果认知,进而激活个人规范,后果认知与个人规范在命令性规范影响绿色消费过程中发挥完全中介作用。因此,可以发挥描述性规范、动态描述性规范对绿色消费的引导示范作用和命令性规范对绿色消费的监督作用,激活绿色消费的个人规范水平,更为有效地促进绿色消费。     

From Resource Access to Use: Exploring the Impact of Resource Combinations on Nascent Entrepreneurship

Although prior research primarily has investigated the independent financial, human, and social capital effects on the decision to create a new venture, little research has investigated the combined effects, leaving potentially meaningful interdependencies less well understood. This study addresses that void explicitly by investigating both the independent effects and the combined effects of human, social, and financial capital influences on the new venture creation decision. The results of the study suggest a change in focus from resource access to resource use and produce important theoretical and practical implications.     

Exploring the Feelings and Thoughts that Accompany the Experience of Consumption Desires

Desires represent a central aspect of human motivation. Recent studies in the field of consumer behavior have shown the importance of the concept of desire to better understand the aspirations of consumers living in economically developed countries for whom most basic needs are satisfied. There has been however no previous attempt at circumscribing the feelings and thoughts that accompany the experience of desire. The present research addresses this gap in the literature. The objectives of the research presented in this article are threefold: (1) to identify the affective and cognitive responses that accompany the experience of consumption desire, (2) to develop a valid scale to assess these feelings and cognitions, and (3) to explore the theoretical links that these internal responses have with other concepts of interest in the field of consumer behavior, such as impulsive and compulsive buying, materialism, innovativeness, voluntary simplicity, self‐esteem, and life satisfaction. In order to address these objectives, five studies were conducted. The results of these studies have revealed that the experience of consumption desires is generally accompanied by psychological events that are affective (i.e., pleasure, discomfort, and guilt) and cognitive (i.e., control). This research contributes to a better understanding of the phenomena that surround the experience of consumption desires as lived and managed by consumers through the development of a reliable and valid measuring instrument that can be used to explore the relationships between these phenomena and other fundamental consumer behavior concepts.     

房价波动对居民消费影响的传导渠道研究

自1998年我国实行住房分配货币化制度改革以来,房地产投资比重持续增长,房价始终处于上涨态势,导致房价收入比过高.与此同时,我国城镇居民消费呈现边际消费倾向持续下滑、城镇居民消费水平落后于可支配收入增长水平、居民消费对经济增长贡献率不高的现状.一方面过高的房价通过“实现的财富效应、未实现的财富效应、流动约束效应、信心效应”等渠道刺激着城镇居民消费,另一方面过高的房价又通过替代效应、预防性储蓄效应、财富再分配效应、消费信心效应等渠道抑制着城镇居民消费.总体而言,房价上涨过快、过高对城镇居民消费产生了较大负面影响.应通过进一步完善住房市场、提高居民收入水平、缩小居民收入差距、引导民众树立合理消费理念、科学推进城镇化等措施,减少房价波动对居民消费的影响.     

促进消费需求的公共财政政策探讨

本文从理论上分析了公共财政与消费的关系,就当前我国公共财政政策在促进消费增长中存在的问题进行了探讨,从健全公共财政政策角度提出了促进消费需求的对策建议。     

新疆城镇化对农村居民消费的影响研究

社会经济增长、城市消费的快速发展,乡镇在现代化趋势下也迎来了经济发展水平提升,不仅城镇化率越来越高,居民生活质量得到显著提升,消费升级使得经济发展有了重要动力。新疆城镇化率发展逐年提升,城镇化水平受到现代技术影响,居民消费结构也有了巨大变化。从新疆城镇化水平数据中发现,2000年-2019年新疆城镇化影响农村居民消费结构,采用灰色关联度分析方法进行实证,结果表明,新疆城镇化关联度比较强的是生活用品及服务消费,关联度较弱的是交通通信消费,由此在实证结果的基础上提出了相应的对策建议。     

劳动力价格变化对我国居民消费需求的影响研究

劳动力价格变化与居民生活水平有密切的关系,会在一定程度上影响居民的消费需求.通过相关理论数据对劳动力价格现状进行分析,进而分析劳动力价格对消费需求的影响,提出提高劳动力价格水平与促进居民消费需求的政策建议.     

关于住房保障影响居民消费的实证分析

住房保障关系到社会稳定和国家长远发展,而居民消费则是启动国民经济成长的主要宏观变量。随着国家保障性住房建设的推进,对居民消费变动将产生重大而深远的影响。本文分析了住房保障对居民消费影响的理论路径,并以中国东部地区15个城市的面板数据为例,对住房保障与居民消费之间的关系进行实证分析,结果显示住房保障对居民消费数量和消费结构都存在着显著性影响。因此,为了充分发挥居民消费对经济成长的带动作用,政府应完善住房保障政策,加大经济适用房和廉租房等保障性住房建设的力度。     

The Impact of the Housing Market Boom and Bust on Consumption Spending

While econometric evidence for the United States has consistently shown that increases in real estate wealth induce additional consumption, it does not directly speak to the effect of a substantial decrease in real estate wealth. This paper examines the real-estate wealth-consumption relationship over the past half century with a particular focus on the sharp decline in 2006–08, and finds that the wealth effect in the recent down market is significantly larger than in an up market. Additionally, wealth changes seem only to affect consumption of services and nondurable goods; there is virtually no impact on durable-goods consumption.     

新冠肺炎疫情对消费经济的影响及对策分析

新冠肺炎疫情将在未来1至2个季度内从总需求和总供给两个方面改变中国经济的宏观环境。本文通过对“非典”前后的宏观经济和消费形势复盘,并比较新冠肺炎疫情与“非典”疫情分析新冠肺炎疫情对消费经济造成的潜在影响。在宏观经济层面,既包括疫情的客观影响,如社会零售总需求下降、投资放缓、CPI波动、进出口萎缩等;也包括各方采取应对措施后对大环境的改变,包括企业融资环境(货币政策)、税费环境(财政政策)等。在消费经济层面,整体消费所受冲击较大;细分零售行业受影响的类型可分为平稳增长型、增速下滑型和逆市上扬型;超市、专业连锁和多业态零售表现较好。疫情将加速零售商业模式变革,无人配送、下沉市场、“宅经济”等需求结构的改变将重塑未来商业模式。总体而言,尽管消费领域受到疫情的影响最大,但疫情之后的“补偿性消费”会一定程度缓解对全年消费增长所造成的冲击。     

地区开放因素对我国城镇居民消费影响的实证分析

1999年以来,我国加快了改革开放和建立社会主义市场经济体制的步伐,经济进入高速发展时期,居民消费对市场的导向作用日益增强,通过启动消费拉动经济增长成为了社会关注的焦点。由于我国地域辽阔、地区间资源分布不平衡,对外开放水平与经济发展水平的差距较大,使得居民在消费水平和消费结构上存在很大的差异。因此研究地区差异对居民消费水平以及消费结构的影响,对于进一步开拓国内市场,缓解国内市场需求不足有着积极的作用。本文分别从消费水平和消费结构两个角度来研究地区对外开放水平的差异对我国城镇居民消费支出的影响。     

我国能源消费对工业增加值的影响分析

采用我国1998年～2010年工业能源消费的面板数据,并运用面板数据的单位根与协整检验对能源消费与工业增加值关系进行了研究,结果表明两者之间存在长期协整关系,影响程度也不尽相同,进而提出了低碳经济背景下促进我国经济增长和能源协调发展的建议.     

文化旅游产业融合对文化消费的影响

党的十九大报告明确提出健全现代文化产业体系,创新生产经营机制,培育新型文化业态,推动文化事业和文化产业发展的新任务,文化产业部门正在着力推动我国文化产业与国民经济各产业的"跨界融合",从而推动文化业态创新和我国文化消费的转型升级。本文基于耦合协调度模型测算我国2005-2015年30个省市文化旅游产业的融合度水平,印证我国文化旅游新业态的成长与进步。动态面板模型的拟合结果显示我国文化旅游产业融合与文化消费之间存在着互为因果的关系,产业融合对文化消费水平的提升作用十分显著;文化旅游产业融合为市场提供了更复合、多元的供给品,满足了消费者日益升级的文化消费需求。因此,切实贯彻十九大报告精神,坚定文化自信,进一步完善政府职能,培育专业化的文化旅游产业人才,强化文化旅游产业投融资机制,依托文化产业融合带动文化消费的转型升级,是我国文化产业进一步发展的重要途径。     

Exploring Convenience Food Consumption Through a Structural Equation Model

In this study the model of convenience orientation suggested by Scholderer and Grunert (2005 Scholderer, J. and Grunert, K. G. 2005. Consumers, food and convenience: The long way from resource constraints to actual consumption patterns. Journal of Economic Psychology, 26: 105–128. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) is applied in order to examine consumer behavior in the context of convenience food usage. The empirical results indicate that sociodemographic characteristics affect behavior both directly and indirectly through perceived time resources and convenience orientation toward meal preparation and clearing up. Findings seem to be important for all the bodies involved in the marketing of convenience food products because they describe the way various consumer characteristics interact, affecting the consumption of such products.