Drivers of Sustainability and Consumer Well-Being: An Ethically-Based Examination of Religious and Cultural Values

Elizabeth A. Minton (), Soo Jiuan Tan (), Siok Kuan Tambyah () and Richie L. Liu ()
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Elizabeth A. Minton: University of Wyoming
Soo Jiuan Tan: National University of Singapore
Siok Kuan Tambyah: National University of Singapore
Richie L. Liu: Xavier University

Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, vol. 175, issue 1, No 11, 167-190

Abstract: Abstract Prior research has examined value antecedents to sustainable consumption, including religious or cultural values. We bridge together these usually separated bodies of literature to provide an ethically-based examination of both religious and cultural values in one model to understand what drives sustainable consumption as well as outcomes on consumer well-being. In doing so, we also fulfill calls for more research on socio-demographic antecedents to ethical consumption, particularly in the domain of sustainable consumption. We examine this relationship using data from the religiously and culturally diverse country of Singapore (n = 1503), collected from a door-to-door, representative sample utilizing numerous quality control techniques. Our path analysis and logical follow-up tests reveal that both religious and cultural values influence sustainable consumption, and then sustainable consumption positively influences consumer well-being. Implications are provided for consumer ethics, business’ ethical practices, and belief congruence theory.

Keywords: Consumer ethics; Religion; Sustainable consumption; Consumer well-being; Culture; Values; Socio-demographic characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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