Miljömässigt hållbara konsumenter och deras avståndstagande mot tidsbegränsade erbjudanden på Instagram

Sammanfattning: The development of social media has lead to major changes in marketing. Today, there are so called influencers who through their social channels can convey advertising to its followers. When an influencer publishes advertising material, they often contain an offer, and it is not uncommon for these offers to be limited in time, meaning the offer is only available for a certain period of time. With this development, there is also an increasing focus on the environment, sustainable development and consumers' responsibility in counteracting negative environmental effects, for example as a result of consumption. Based on this background, the purpose was designed to find out to what extent environmentally sustainable consumers are affected by time-limited offers that are marketed by influencers on Instagram. Environmentally sustainable consumers have been defined in the study as people who have a negative view of consumption. For this purpose three research questions were created which were examined in a survey. The respondents' answers were tested by regression analyzes. The results showed acceptance of all hypotheses. 1) Time-limited offers published by influences on Instagram lead to increased consumption, 2) an environmentally sustainable attitude has a negative effect on consumption and 3) time-limited offers published by influencers on Instagram lead to a negative effect on consumption, when the consumer has an environmentally sustainable attitude. The results of the study can then be related to several different theories from previous research, such as impulse buying, stimuli, collectivism /individualism, the SOR-model, the source credibility theory and halo effect theory. The study contributes to a greater understanding of consumers' relationship with an environmentally sustainable attitude to time-limited offers, which are published by influencers on Instagram. The result can be useful for companies that work with influencers when designing time limited offers. (This paper is written in Swedish)