Sustainable Business Development Perspectives. Proceedings of Scientific Papers

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Abstrakt

The main goal of the paper is to evaluate the product recall activities from the perspective of customers and retail representatives. To achieve this goal, primary quantitative research has been carried out, which examines consumers' attitudes towards the environmentally responsible activities of organizations and towards activities supporting the recall of unnecessary products. The survey was performed between November and December 2020 and involved 4,888 Slovak consumers. Respondents were selected to meet a representative sample for gender, age, education, size of residence, and income. Clearly, there is room for improving the awareness of ultimate customer on the market. The fact that quite a high number of customers would be willing to behave desirably, however they “forget”, appears positive. It is therefore a task of a number of entities involved in the modern marketing management (for-profit organisations, non-profit organisations, civil initiatives, educational institutions at several levels, state apparatus, etc.) to sufficiently communicate the purpose of the reverse distribution in order to clarify the role of the driving force for ultimate customers.

Klíčová slova

Customer behaviour, Distribution Channels, Sustainable distribution


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