Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector

Green marketing is falling into the category of answers provided by the business world to the requirement to combine the economic development with the preservation of natural resources which represents a pressing concern of the modern times. In this context, the hospitality sector is facing as well...

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Main Authors: Liviu B. Vlad, Dragoş C. Vasile, Octav-Ionuţ Macovei, Claudia E. Ţuclea
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Published: Editura ASE 2016-11-01
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Online Access:http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2573
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author Liviu B. Vlad
Dragoş C. Vasile
Octav-Ionuţ Macovei
Claudia E. Ţuclea
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description Green marketing is falling into the category of answers provided by the business world to the requirement to combine the economic development with the preservation of natural resources which represents a pressing concern of the modern times. In this context, the hospitality sector is facing as well an increasing pressure to pay attention to environmental issues, hotel organizations are increasingly tending to use environmentally friendly products and services, and to implement programs to manage energy and water consumption and waste. The adoption of green marketing in hospitality industry is significantly facilitated by internal and external factors. The paper focuses on the analysis of determinant internal factors: first and foremost on the pro-environmental behavior of the hotel managers and employees, and also on the already implemented green practices in the daily hotel activity. The implementation of green marketing strategies further examined being taken into account the organizational change theory, discloses a third determinant factor, namely, to what extent the process of changing is prepared. This paper is advancing an integrated model of determinant internal factors of green marketing implementation in the hospitality sector. The proposed research model has been tested and validated after analyzing the data collected in a quantitative research conducted on 330 managers and employees from the hospitality industry in Romania. The results show that the three predictors - pro-environmental behavior, current green practices and the change readiness - are having a significant influence on the implementation of green marketing.
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spelling doaj-art-2eb6cd85657345ce86e851ab736c7f532025-08-20T03:18:42ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042016-11-0118Special Issue 10862874Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality SectorLiviu B. Vlad0Dragoş C. Vasile1Octav-Ionuţ Macovei 2Claudia E. Ţuclea 3Bucharest University of Economic StudiesBucharest University of Economic StudiesThe University of South-East Europe in Bucharest”Lumina”, RomaniaBucharest University of Economic StudiesGreen marketing is falling into the category of answers provided by the business world to the requirement to combine the economic development with the preservation of natural resources which represents a pressing concern of the modern times. In this context, the hospitality sector is facing as well an increasing pressure to pay attention to environmental issues, hotel organizations are increasingly tending to use environmentally friendly products and services, and to implement programs to manage energy and water consumption and waste. The adoption of green marketing in hospitality industry is significantly facilitated by internal and external factors. The paper focuses on the analysis of determinant internal factors: first and foremost on the pro-environmental behavior of the hotel managers and employees, and also on the already implemented green practices in the daily hotel activity. The implementation of green marketing strategies further examined being taken into account the organizational change theory, discloses a third determinant factor, namely, to what extent the process of changing is prepared. This paper is advancing an integrated model of determinant internal factors of green marketing implementation in the hospitality sector. The proposed research model has been tested and validated after analyzing the data collected in a quantitative research conducted on 330 managers and employees from the hospitality industry in Romania. The results show that the three predictors - pro-environmental behavior, current green practices and the change readiness - are having a significant influence on the implementation of green marketing.http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2573green marketingpro-environmental behaviorchange readinesshospitality industrystructural equation modeling.
spellingShingle Liviu B. Vlad
Dragoş C. Vasile
Octav-Ionuţ Macovei
Claudia E. Ţuclea
Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector
Amfiteatru Economic
green marketing
pro-environmental behavior
change readiness
hospitality industry
structural equation modeling.
title Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector
title_full Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector
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title_short Determinant Factors of Green Marketing Adoption in the Hospitality Sector
title_sort determinant factors of green marketing adoption in the hospitality sector
topic green marketing
pro-environmental behavior
change readiness
hospitality industry
structural equation modeling.
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