Framework
SHIFT framework for sustainable consumer behaviour
The question it answers
When customers say they back green products but still buy out of habit, how can a marketing team nudge them towards sustainable choices without lecturing?
- Origin
- White, Habib and Hardisty, 2019
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Individual

Diagram
SHIFT framework for sustainable consumer behaviour
Sustainable behaviour
S: Social influence
H: Habit
I: Individual self
F: Feelings and cognition
T: Tangibility
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- White, K., Habib, R. and Hardisty, D.J. (2019) ‘How to SHIFT consumer behaviors to be more sustainable: a literature review and guiding framework’, Journal of Marketing, 83(3), pp. 22–49.doi:10.1177/0022242919825649Source page