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Literature is replete with green marketing discourse (e.g Baker, 2012;
Chen et al., 2020; Kumar, 2016), and some of these studies have contrib-
uted to our understanding of the “what” and “why” of green marketing
(Grant, 2008; Papadopoulos et al., 2010; Peattie, & Charter, 2003; Peattie
& Crane, 2005; Polonsky, 1994) with limited studies focusing on the
“how” of green marketing towards achieving environmental and business-
oriented goals (Polonsky & Rosenberger, 2001). Green marketing is an
array of practices that ensures all activities engaged in marketing from pro-
curement to product delivery are carried out in a greener way (Sharma &
Kushwaha, 2019).
Consequently, green marketing considers the social and environmen-
tal impact of marketing activities, but not at the expense of prot. Several
studies have emphasized the direct eect of green marketing on business
protability (Mukonza, & Swarts, 2020; Sutduean et al., 2019).
erefore, sustaining protability and the environmental success of green
marketing require eective communication of the green oerings embed-
ded in a product or service rendered by an organisation (Bailey et al.,
2016; Chwialkowska, 2018; Grimmer & Woolley, 2014).
Consistently communicating the green oerings of an organisation?s
products/services will position the organisation as a green brand and
inuence consumers? green behaviour, green knowledge and green pur-
chase intentions (Amoako et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2014). Huang et al.
(2014), in their study on the eect of green brand on green purchase
intention, found that an organisation positioning itself as a green brand
inuences consumers? green brand knowledge and their (consumers) atti-
tude to the green brand. Similarly, green brand purchase intentions are
R. E. Hinson
Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Ghana
Business School, Accra, Ghana
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C. Mukonza
Tshwane University of Technology, Polokwane, South Africa
A. C. Kirgiz
Istanbul Kent University, Istanbul, Turkey
e-mail:
[email protected]
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