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Green Marketing: A Study of Consumer Perception and Preferences in India

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Concerns have been expressed by manufacturers and customers about the environmental impact of products during recent decades. Consumers and manufacturers have directed their attention toward environment friendly products that are presumed to be “green” or environment friendly like low power consuming (energy-efficient) electrical appliances, organic foods, lead free paints, recyclable paper, and phosphate free detergents. Indian marketers are also realizing the importance of the Green Marketing Concept. Although a variety of research on green marketing has been conducted across the globe; little academic research on consumer perception and preferences has been carried out in India. This research provides a brief review of environmental issues and identifies the green values of the consumers, their level of awareness about environmental issues, green products and practices. This paper highlights the consumers’ perception and preferences towards green marketing practices and products with the help of a structured questionnaire. A study was conducted on 106 respondents. High level of awareness about green marketing practices and products was found among the consumers. Green values were also found to be high among the respondents. Research has given good insights for marketers of the green products and suggests the need of designing the marketing communication campaigns promoting green products due to high green value among the consumers. Results of regression analysis reveals the view that overall green values, awareness about green products and practices and the perception regarding seriousness of marketing companies towards green marketing had positive significant impact on consumer persuasion to buy and prefer green products over conventional products.

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Research Paper Marketing A Study on Challenges of Green Marketing: Present Scenario

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As people become more concerned with the natural environment, businesses have begun to modify their behavior in an attempt to address peoples "new" concerns. Green Marketing has created revolution since few years in the market. Attempts are made by business organizations to be in line with environment friendly products to attract customers. This paper is an attempt to study the basic concepts and ideas behind green marketing, importance of green marketing and the challenges which are associated with different aspects of green marketing in the present scenario.

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Environmental sustainability is pressing businesses to find new and innovative ways to incorporate this concern into their activities and in the operation of market-oriented businesses. It is crucial to understand how companies are working and offering products and services to the market interested in “green” and sustainable offers.

Green marketing involves the marketing activities defined to create and facilitate transactions of products and services to address these concerns in terms of environmental sustainability (Paiva 2020). This concept calls attention to the impact of business action on humans and the environment (Hartmann and Ibanez 2006). The consequence of using green marketing principles is a more sustainable value proposition, offering new products, new services, more digital services, new ways of distribution and retro distribution, more ICT in communication and even new forms of work. At this point, green marketing can be extended to the environpreneurial marketing, that is, the management perspective, that in a transparent, proactive, and cooperative way, allows businesses to integrate the environmental concerns into the entrepreneurial activity, in a holistic approach, and consequently responding to these consumers’ needs and interests (Ottamn 2017).

Green marketing has been assuming many designations and approaches, in the ecological (Fisk 1974), environmental (Polonsky and Mintu-Winsatt, 1995), green (Ottman, 1997; Wasik, 1996) and more recently enviropreneurial marketing (Hartman and Stafford 1998; Menon and Menon 1997; Kilbourne 1995), but the main goal addressed is common, that is, satisfying consumer needs in a sustainable way, transforming the organization itself into a more sustainable agent.

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