Look at me saving the planet! The imitation of visible green behavior and its impact on the climate value-action gap

Z Babutsidze, A Chai - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Examining the regional distribution of 15 different Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Practices
(MPs) across Australia, we study the tendency for consumers to imitate visible pro …

Determinants of sustainable consumption in France: the importance of social influence and environmental values

N Lazaric, F Le Guel, J Belin, V Oltra, S Lavaud… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2020 - Springer
Our article provides empirical findings for France related to sustainable consumption and
what triggers sustainable behavior. We investigate various potential key explanatory …

What shapes the “value-action” gap? The role of time perception reconsidered

C Franco, C Ghisetti - Economia Politica, 2022 - Springer
While research on determinants and consequences of environmental attitudes and pro-
environmental behaviours is quite broad, limited research efforts have been spent on the …

Interplay of virtual and physical channels in propagating green behaviour: A study integrating motivation-opportunity-ability and theory of planned behaviour

C Li, X Wang, L Wang - Environmental Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditional communication channels and new “human-computer interaction” spread
channels are intertwined, facilitating the promote of the concept of “green for all”. This paper …

Social reinforcement with weighted interactions

T Konc, I Savin - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
The speed and extent of diffusion of behaviors in social networks depends on network
structure and individual preferences. The contribution of the present study is twofold. First …

Determinants of energy tracking application use at the city level: Evidence from France

A Attour, M Baudino, J Krafft, N Lazaric - Energy Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the determinants of smart energy tracking app usage by citizens
residing in French cities. Our framework is inspired by the extant strands of literature on …

The rise of electronic social networks and implications for advertisers

Z Babutsidze - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018 - Elsevier
The rise of modern digital communication technologies, most notably electronic social
networks, transforms structures through which consumers interact with one another. In this …

Spatial and relational peer effects on environmental behavioral imitation

J Zhang, X Liu, D Ballas - Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2023 - Springer
From a behavioral perspective, this study investigates the impacts of spatial and relational
peer effects on shaping individual environmental behaviors. Utilizing microdata from 53,590 …

Innovation, competition and firm size distribution on fragmented markets

Z Babutsidze - Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents a simple model of firm and consumer behavior. We formulate a sub-
market entry game, where boundedly rational firms decide on investing in R&D for inventing …

A trick of the tail: the role of social networks in shaping distributional properties of experience-good markets

Z Babutsidze, M Valente - Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The diffusion of social media has radically changed the number of peers with whom
consumers interact with when making a decision. While consumption decisions depend on …