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Viet, N.Q., De Leeuw, S. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3056-8775 and van Herpen, E.,
2023.
The impact of social vs environmental sustainability information disclosure on consumer choice of delivery time with varying sustainability concerns.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 53 (11), pp. 26-52.
ISSN 0960-0035
Abstract
Purpose: This paper investigates the impact of sustainability information disclosure on consumers' choice of order-to-delivery lead-time in relation to consumers’ sustainability concern.
Design/methodology/approach: Based on two choice experiments with participants from the Netherlands (n 5 348) and the United Kingdom (n 5 1,387), the impact of sustainability information disclosure was examined in connection with consumers’ concerns for environmental and social sustainability. Information on environmental impact (carbon emission) and social impact (warehouse workers and drivers’ well-being) was considered and compared.
Findings: Disclosing sustainability impact information significantly increased consumers’ preference and choice for longer delivery times, with equivalent effects for environmental and social impact information. Consumers' relevant (environmental or social) sustainability concern as personality traits enhanced effects on preferences, as did priming of environmental concern.
Research limitations/implications: Future research may consider differences between product categories or e-commerce companies’ reputation in sustainability activities.
Practical implications: The findings provide opportunities for online retailers to influence consumer choice of delivery time, especially through disclosing environmental and/or social sustainability information.
Originality/value: This study fills a gap in the literature on sustainability information disclosure to actively steer consumer choice of delivery time, particularly regarding the effect of social sustainability impact information in comparison to its environmental counterpart.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management | ||||||
| Creators: | Viet, N.Q., De Leeuw, S. and van Herpen, E. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald | ||||||
| Date: | 6 April 2023 | ||||||
| Volume: | 53 | ||||||
| Number: | 11 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0960-0035 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © Nguyen Quoc Viet, Sander de Leeuw and Erica van Herpen. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 19 Apr 2023 10:46 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2023 10:46 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48778 |
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