Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, May, 2020 / Cataloged from the official version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62). / In this research, we aimed to understand how we can motivate customers to make more responsible choices in regard to organic food purchases. Also, we studied how customers' purchase attitude and their purchase behavior differ from each other. We designed four different kind of experiments to examine whether different pricing, consensus principle, environmental and health benefits awareness can have impacts on the number of organic purchases. We also had sale experiment and online survey to study if customer's attitude and behavior are different from each other. The findings in this study suggest that there is no significant difference between the organic purchase behavior and customers' purchase intent. Moreover, we found that there are no significant differences between different experiments and treatments. However, our results reveal that baby boomers were more willing to purchase organic pecans compared to generation X. / by Ameneh Fadaie. / S.M. in Engineering and Management / S.M.inEngineeringandManagement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/132813 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Fadaie, Ameneh. |
| Contributors | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Integrated Design and Management Program., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program., System Design and Management Program., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Integrated Design and Management Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program, System Design and Management Program |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 62 pages, application/pdf |
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