Review of Literature Matrix
Topic: Green Purchase Behaviour
Research
Methodology
(Research design ,
Research
S.N Author(Year) Target population ,
Question / Findings Review
o & Source Sample size , Data
Objective
collection
instrument ,
Statistical tools used )
1. Ali, Khan, Consumers' Survey was Consumers are Ali et al. (2011), made an attempt to
Ahmed, I., & intention to buy conducted in four ready to buy examine the Pakistani consumers'
Shahzad, (2011) environmentall university of green products intention to buy environmentally
Source : Google y friendly Rawalpindi and more often, but friendly products. They carried out the
Scholar products Islamabad. The target as for as the survey among 400 under graduate,
population for this price and graduate and postgraduate students in
study was the under quality is four university of Rawalpindi and
Islamabad. To carry out the survey
graduate, graduate
they used a questionnaire and
and postgraduate
adopted convenience random
students. The sample
sampling technique. Study results
consisted of 400 concern
revealed that consumers are ready to
participants and
buy green products more often, but
convenience random
price and quality are an important
sampling was used.
concern
2 Yadav & Pathak, Understand the The study has used attitude, In their work yadav & pathak, (2017)
(2017) consumer the Theory of Planned subjective used Theory of Planned Behavior to
Source : behavior to buy Behavior. norm, and understand the consumer behavior to
Semantic green products 620 usable responses perceived buy green products in context of a
Scholar in context of a with the help of a behavioral developing nation. 620 respondents
developing were were contacted through a
questionnaire survey control
nation( India) questionnaire survey using
using the found to have
significant convenience sampling approach. The
convenience
positive
influence on
consumer's
authors used Structural Equation
green purchase
Modeling to test the hypothesis. It has
sampling approach. intention. ,
been found that attitude, subjective
Structural Equation perceived value
norm, perceived behavioral control ,
Modeling (SEM) was significantly
perceived value were found to have a
used influenced the
significant positive influence on
consumer
consumer's green purchase intention. ,
green purchase
intention
(section 3.4)
References:
1. Ali, A., Khan, A. A., Ahmed, I., & Shahzad, W. (2011). Determinants of Pakistani consumers’ green purchase behavior: Some
insights from a developing country. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 2(3), 217-226.
2. Yadav, R., & Pathak, G. S. (2017). Determinants of consumers' green purchase behavior in a developing nation: Applying and
extending the theory of planned behavior. Ecological economics, 134, 114-122.