Do Fast Fashion Sustainable Business Strategies Influence Attitude, Awareness and Behaviours of Female Consumers?
Hageman, Eva and Kumar, Vikas and Duong, Linh and Kumari, Archana and McAuliffe, Eileen (2023) Do Fast Fashion Sustainable Business Strategies Influence Attitude, Awareness and Behaviours of Female Consumers? Business Strategy and the Environment. ISSN 1099-0836
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Abstract
In recent years, the fashion and textile industries have come under pressure to manage customer expectations. Previous research has shown that female consumers tend to buy more clothing than male consumers and are understood to care more about fashion. However, existing studies that have focused on understanding consumer attitudes toward sustainable fast fashion consumption have not been particularly explored from the female consumer’s perspective. Neither have they attempted to explore the impact of sustainable business strategies on purchasing behaviour. This study attempts to bridge this gap and focuses on exploring the attitude and purchasing behaviour of female consumers driven by sustainable business strategies of fast fashion firms. The research findings are based on responses from 155 female consumers, followed by interviews to triangulate the findings. The results show that female consumers are sustainably conscious and aware of the sustainable initiatives of fast fashion companies. Furthermore, the study indicates that female consumers’ attitudes and purchasing behaviour are both (unconsciously) influenced by the sustainable initiatives of fast fashion companies. Therefore, fast fashion companies should investigate how their sustainable initiatives and strategies influence the female consumer in terms of attitude and purchasing behaviour. This study thus adds to the limited empirical studies investigating female consumers’ attitudes, awareness and purchasing behaviours.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3545 | ||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fast fashion, Consumer Attitude, Purchasing Behaviour, Awareness, Sustainable Business Strategies, Survey, Interviews | ||||||
| Subjects: | CAH15 - social sciences > CAH15-01 - sociology, social policy and anthropology > CAH15-01-01 - social sciences (non-specific) CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-01 - business and management (non-specific) CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-02 - business studies CAH17 - business and management > CAH17-01 - business and management > CAH17-01-04 - management studies |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > Birmingham City Business School | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Vikas Kumar | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2023 09:57 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2023 13:50 | ||||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14658 |
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