Examining the Young Consumer Purchase Intention of Eco-Friendly Home: Insight from Indonesian
- DOI
- 10.2991/icoi-19.2019.41How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- young consumer, purchase intention, eco-friendly home, environmental knowledge, culture value
- Abstract
The main target of eco-friendly homes is reducing and eliminating its negative environmental impact by improving the design and construction. Among young consumers, eco-friendly homes are the best solution to preventing continuous environmental damage. However, young consumers have many background factors that come into play when deciding to purchase an eco-friendly home that are internal and external. The empirical findings from the previous research demonstrated that the environmental knowledge and culture values affected the consumer in terms of their green purchase behavioural intention as in the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) determinant. The objective of this study is to investigate whether the environmental knowledge and cultural values of the young buyers’ affects their purchase intention when it comes to an eco-friendly home. Using a quantitative approach and survey design by distributing a questionnaire, the respondents for this study were made up of 200 prospective young buyers within the eco-friendly home development concept in Malang and Surabaya. This study found that environmental knowledge positively influenced young consumer purchase intention as well as the culture value variable. Overall, the results provide empirical evidence on the importance of environmental knowledge and the culture value for young consumers when related to their eco-friendly home purchase intention. Therefore, the stakeholders of eco-friendly home development should more aware of and seek to improve young consumer knowledge and the culture value when focused toward the eco-friendly home concept in order to succeed at sustainable development
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Maranatha Wijayaningtyas AU - Togi H. Nainggolan AU - Ni Nyoman Suarniki AU - Kukuh Lukiyanto PY - 2019/10 DA - 2019/10 TI - Examining the Young Consumer Purchase Intention of Eco-Friendly Home: Insight from Indonesian BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Organizational Innovation (ICOI 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 242 EP - 248 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icoi-19.2019.41 DO - 10.2991/icoi-19.2019.41 ID - Wijayaningtyas2019/10 ER -