Showing papers by "Oksana Mont published in 2014"

Choice editing as a retailers’ tool for sustainable consumption

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why choice editing is being used as a tool to promote sustainable consumption, using the choice editing of fish as a case study. Design/methodology/approach – This study is explorative in nature and is based on a case study of choice editing of fish as a product category that has undergone fairly widespread choice editing. The case is built on primary empirical data from three Swedish and four British retailers collected through semi-structured interviews. These retailers are of different sizes, but together represent over 50 per cent of the food retail market in both Sweden and the UK taken by market share. Findings – The findings suggest that the main business case choice editing is the creation of a responsible brand image and is often based on pressure from wider societal norms. The case for choice editing is therefore ultimately reliant on consumer recognition of sustainability issues as valuable, and it is unlikely to be taken up when retaile...

A Map Is Not a Territory: Making Research More Helpful for Sustainable Consumption Policy

Abstract: The need to make consumption patterns more sustainable is widely acknowledged, yet effective policies for sustainable consumption are lacking. This article examines Nordic policy makers' views on why sustainable consumption research is difficult to apply in policy practice. We draw on the knowledge brokering literature to outline how the challenges of knowledge utilization in policy are connected to knowledge communication practices and to the types and scales of policy problems. Our empirical material is based on in-depth interviews with Nordic civil servants working with sustainable consumption issues. Our findings identify problems in sustainable consumption policy that are well documented in other fields, such as policy makers' lack of time and the inconclusiveness of research findings. However, we also identify more fundamental problems, which relate to administrative fragmentation and to the status of social science in policy making, as well as to the linear model of knowledge use in policy making in which administrators are forced to serve as knowledge brokers between researchers and policy makers. Our research suggests that better forms of knowledge dissemination are not sufficient to overcome these problems. New forms of knowledge co-production are needed, in which researchers, administrators, politicians, and other stakeholders work together to solve real-life problems and build up a shared knowledge community. We conclude by highlighting the implications for researchers aiming to promote change toward more sustainable consumption patterns.

Handledning för mätning och utvärdering av resfria möten

Abstract: Det resfria motet – vart satt att arbeta och traffas utan att vara pa samma plats fysiskt – blir allt vanligare. Men vad blir effekterna och hur mater vi dessa? Med hjalp av verktyg som telefonkonferenser, videokonferenser och datorstodda motesverktyg skoter vi en allt storre del av var dagliga verksamhet. Organisationer infor och anvander resfria motesverktyg med en forhoppning att de ska medfora en mangd positiva effekter: besparingar i tid, resande och kostnader, minskad stress bland medarbetarna, okad produktivitet, och i forlangningen aven en minskad belastning pa miljon. For att kunna folja upp om de onskade effekterna faktiskt uppnas har denna handledning tagits fram. Handledningen ger forslag pa hur anvandningen av resfria moten och effekterna darav mats, hur man kan tolka resultatet och forslag pa vad man kan gora for att forbattra resultatet.