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"It's Not Easy Living a Sustainable Lifestyle": How Greater Knowledge Leads to Dilemmas, Tensions and Paralysis

Journal of business ethics, 2019-02, Vol.154 (3), p.759-779 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Nature B.V. 2019 ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 ;Journal of Business Ethics is a copyright of Springer, (2017). All Rights Reserved. ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;ISSN: 1573-0697 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3422-1

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Title:
"It's Not Easy Living a Sustainable Lifestyle": How Greater Knowledge Leads to Dilemmas, Tensions and Paralysis
Author: Longo, Cristina ; Shankar, Avi ; Nuttall, Peter
Subjects: Actual behavioural control ; Attitude-behaviour inconsistencies ; Attitudes ; Barriers to sustainability ; Business Administration ; Business and Management ; Business Ethics ; Consumer compromises ; Consumer knowledge ; Consumption ; Dilemmas ; Education ; Ethics ; Expertise ; Familiarity ; företagsekonomi ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Lifestyles ; Management ; Original Paper ; Paralysis ; Philosophy ; Quality of Life Research ; Sustainability ; Sustainable consumption ; Values
Is Part Of: Journal of business ethics, 2019-02, Vol.154 (3), p.759-779
Description: Providing people with information is considered an important first step in encouraging them to behave sustainably as it influences their consumption beliefs, attitudes and intentions. However, too much information can also complicate these processes and negatively affect behaviour. This is exacerbated when people have accepted the need to live a more sustainable lifestyle and attempt to enact its principles. Drawing on interview data with people committed to sustainability, we identify the contentious role of knowledge in further disrupting sustainable consumption ideals. Here, knowledge is more than just information; it is familiarity and expertise (or lack of it) or how information is acted upon. We find that more knowledge represents a source of dilemma, tension and paralysis. Our data reveal a dark side to people's knowledge, leading to a 'selfinflicted sustainable consumption paradox' in their attempts to lead a sustainable consumption lifestyle. Implications for policy interventions are discussed.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0167-4544
ISSN: 1573-0697
EISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3422-1
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
ProQuest Central

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"It's Not Easy Living a Sustainable Lifestyle": How Greater Knowledge Leads to Dilemmas, Tensions and Paralysis

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