Abstract
Sustainable development, sustainable consumption and short supply chains are nowadays acquiring increasing relevance on the literature. On the other hand, from the consumers attitudinal statement, ethical consumption is also requiring more attention from marketing sciences. Besides that, the integration of the last concept on sustainability remains in a complete lack of systematic and integrative conceptualization. This paper tries to promote a potential integration of all the dimensions of sustainable consumption and to understand the potential linkage and interaction among them, in order to promote the Sustainable Development Goal 15 from the United Nations. The methodology follows a systematic literature review and preliminary information comes from a case study of the approved project SDGsConsum. The results confirm that, besides a huge development in sustainable development and sustainable consumption in the literature, the focus on shortly supply chains of production is yet modest. Moreover, the motivations and constraints that drive and restrain, respectively, consumers toward ethical and sustainable consumption presents several incongruences.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals. https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Dos Santos, M.J.P.L., Ahmad, N.: Sustainability of European agricultural holdings. J. Saudi Soc. Agric. Sci. 19(5), 358–364 (2020)
Greenfeld, A., Becker, N., Bornman, J.F., Dos Santos, M.J., Angel, D.: Consumer preferences for aquaponics: a comparative analysis of Australia and Israel. J. Environ. Manage. 257, 109979 (2020)
Dos Santos, M.J.P.L.: Nowcasting and forecasting aquaponics by Google trends in European countries. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 134, 178–185 (2018)
Gallenti, G., Troiano, S., Cosmina, M., Marangon, F.: Ethical and sustainable consumption in the Italian coffee market: a choice experiment toanalyse consumers’ willingness to pay. Ital. Rev. Agric. Econ. 71(2), 153–176 (2016)
Dos-Santos, M.J.P.L., Moncada, S., Elia, A., Grillakis, M., Hilmi, N.: Society. Development. Climate and environmental change in the mediterranean basin. Current situation and risks for the future. In: Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) (2020). https://www.medecc.org/first-mediterranean-assessment-report-mar1/
Kibert, C.J., Thiele, L., Peterson, A., Monroe, M.: The ethics of sustainability. In: Kibert, C.J. (ed.) Island Press (2018). https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/ethics-sustainability
Ramsden, J., Mamalis, A.G., Athanassoulis, N.T.: The ethics of sustainability. J. Biol. Phys. Chem. 18(4), 154–163 (2018)
World Health Organization (2020). https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
SDGs CONSUM The Ethical-Sustainable Consumer Behavior Before and After the COVID Pandemic. https://www.escs.ipl.pt/investigacao/living-lab-comportamento-etico-sustentavel-do-consumidor-antes-e-depois-da-pandemia-covid
Gallenti, G., Troiano, S., Cosmina, M., Marangon, F.: Ethical and sustainable consumption in the italian coffe market: a choice experiment to analyse consumers’ willingness to pay. Ital. Rev. Agric. Econ. 71(2), 153–176 (2016)
Giampietri, E., Verneau, F., Del Giudice, T., Carfora, V., Finco, A.: Telling the trust about consumers: a theory of planned behaviour perspective to investigate the role of trust in consumer purchasing decisions related to short food supply chains. Food Qual. (2018)
Cicia, G., Furno, M., Del Giudice, T.: Do consumers’ values and attitudes affect food retailer choice? Evidence from a national survey on farmers’ market in Germany. Agric. Food Econ. 9, 3 (2020)
Carolan, M.: Ethical eating as experienced by consumers and producers: when good food meets good farmers. J. Consum. Cult. (2020)
Osburg, V.S., Davies, I., Yoganathan, V., McLeay, F.: Perspectives, opportunities and tensions in ethical and sustainable luxury: introduction to the thematic symposium. J. Bus. Ethics 0123456789 (2020)
Schütte, L., Gregory-Smith, D.: Neutralisation and mental accounting in ethical consumption: the case of sustainable holidays. Sustain. (Switzerland) 7(6), 7959–7972 (2015)
Kushwah, S., Dhir, A., Sagar, M.: Understanding consumer resistance to the consumption of organic food. A study of ethical consumption, purchasing, and choice behaviour. Food Qual. Preference 77(April), 1–14 (2019)
Krippendorff, K.: Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology. 3rd edn. Sage Publications (2013)
Carrington, M.J., Zwick, D., Neville, B.: The ideology of the ethical consumption gap. Mark. Theory 16(1), 21–38 (2016)
Cherrier, H.: Anti-consumption discourses and consumer-resistant identities. J. Bus. Res. 62(2), 181–190 (2009)
Verma, A.: Sustainable development and environmental ethics. Int. J. Environ. Sci. 10(1), 1–5 (2019). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342624965_SUSTAINABLE_DEVELOPMENT_AND_ENVIRONMENTAL_ETHICS
De Pelsmacker, P., Driesen, L., Rayp, G.: Do consumers care about ethics? Willingness to pay for fair-trade coffee. J. Consum. Aff. 39(2), 363–385 (2005)
Ryoo, Y., Sung, Y., Chechelnytska, I.: What makes materialistic consumers more ethical? Self-benefit vs. other-benefit appeals. J. Bus. Res. 110, 173–183 (2020)
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to extend their gratitude to the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL) for the approval of the project SDGsCONSUM and for providing this publication opportunity by granting financial assistance and making this manuscript available. Moreover, the authors also are thankful to the Dean of Research (and President) of IPL and Dean of ESCS, by the investment in science and by the approval of the present IDI&CA 2020 Project. We also are thankful to the anonymous members of the panel for their valuable time and approval of our scientific project SDGsCONSUM.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Dos-Santos, M.J.P.L., Baptistal, N.T., Nobre, H. (2021). Exploring the Relationship Between Ethical and Sustainable Consumption in Short Supply Chains: A Literature Review. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Salminen, V. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 267. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80876-1_26
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-80875-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-80876-1
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)