Sustainable Consumer Behavior, Decision-Making, and Sustainability of Businesses
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 3390
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Interests: technological management; energy; environment; transportation systems/investment; logistics; location selection; urban planning; tourism; electronic commerce; global supply chains
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Interests: consumer behavior; management decision-making; marketing strategic development; hospitality management
Interests: applications and innovations of diverse hybrid multiple criteria-decision-making (MCDM) methods; fuzzy decision-making; group decision making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The stages of consumer decision processes are varied and diverse. Particularly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, because of considerations of social distances and avoidance of physical contacts, the consumers change their consumption patterns tremendously, relating to the transformation of consumer behavior is massive; and this trend has been well noticed. Nevertheless, doubtless, comprehensions of customer decision making process are significantly correlated with the maintenance of competitiveness for businesses. Thus, scrutinizing how consumers make decisions has immense attentions academically and practically. Additionally, with the increasing awareness of “sustainability”, numerous of practitioners and academics tend to develop their strategies or conduct their research with the concept of sustainability-oriented. Particularly, the issue of “sustainable consumer behavior” has been raised by researchers.
Certainly, maintaining the sustainable consumer behavior the further recognition of consumer decision should be crucial but intricate. This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to address issues related to the sustainable consumer behavior, decision making, and sustainability of businesses in diverse fields. Thus, academics and researchers whose field of study is sustainable consumer behavior, consumer decision making, sustainability of businesses from the perspective of consumption, or reinforcement of consumer’s purchasing power in the post-COVID-19 era are enthusiastically invited to present their latest research in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng
Dr. Ching Ching Fang
Dr. Sun-Weng Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable consumer behavior
- consumer decision making
- sustainable marketing strategies
- sustainable decision-making
- development of sustainability models
- consumer awareness and sustainability
- consumer behavior in the post-COVID-19 era
- sustainability of businesses
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