Anti-consumption for Environmental Sustainability: Conceptualization, Review, and Multilevel Research Directions

Nieves García-de-Frutos, José Manuel Ortega-Egea, Javier Martínez-del-Río

Journal of Business Ethics · 2018 · Volume 148 · Issue 2

Abstract

Given the potential that environmentally oriented anti-consumption (EOA) has in achieving environmental sustainability, the authors draw upon marketing, management, environmental, and psychology studies to conceptualize and delimit EOA, differentiating it from other (related but distinct) phenomena. In addition, the authors review the available literature at the individual (micro) level and summarize research on the antecedents and meanings ofbroadand specific/strictEOA practices with different targets. Furthermore, the authors propose an agenda for future research, which reflects on EOA not only at the individual (micro) level, but also lays out new opportunities for EOA work at organizational (meso), industry, and national (macro) levels. The work presented here hopes to spark multilevel research on EOA, its antecedents and consequences, and reactions to EOA phenomena.

Keywords

Anti-consumption, Conceptualization, Environmental sustainability, Literature review, Multilevel, Research agenda

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