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Selling to Socially Responsible Consumers: Competition and The Private Provision of Public Goods

Selling to Socially Responsible Consumers: Competition and The Private Provision of Public Goods We model firms as competing for socially responsible consumers by linking the provision of a public good (environmentally friendly or socially responsible activities) to sales of their private goods. In many cases, too little of the public good is provided, but under certain conditions, competition leads to excessive provision. Further, there is generally a trade‐off between more efficient provision of the private and the public good. Our results indicate that the level of private provision of the public good varies inversely with the competitiveness of the private‐good market and that the types of public goods provided are biased toward those for which consumers have high participation value. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Wiley

Selling to Socially Responsible Consumers: Competition and The Private Provision of Public Goods

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1058-6407
eISSN
1530-9134
DOI
10.1111/j.1430-9134.2003.00419.x
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Abstract

We model firms as competing for socially responsible consumers by linking the provision of a public good (environmentally friendly or socially responsible activities) to sales of their private goods. In many cases, too little of the public good is provided, but under certain conditions, competition leads to excessive provision. Further, there is generally a trade‐off between more efficient provision of the private and the public good. Our results indicate that the level of private provision of the public good varies inversely with the competitiveness of the private‐good market and that the types of public goods provided are biased toward those for which consumers have high participation value.

Journal

Journal of Economics & Management StrategyWiley

Published: Sep 1, 2003

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