Volume 34, Issue 5 pp. 5181-5204
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Linking Green Value Cocreation Experience and Customer Brand Engagement in the Luxury Hotel Context: The Role of Green Satisfaction, Emotional Attachment, and Environmental Apathy

Nguyen Huu Khoi

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Nguyen Huu Khoi

Nha Trang University, Nha Trang, Vietnam

University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Nguyen Huu Khoi ([email protected])

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Angelina Nhat-Hanh Le

Angelina Nhat-Hanh Le

University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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First published: 14 March 2025

Funding: This research is funded by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam.

ABSTRACT

Previous studies have largely ignored the role of green practices as a value cocreation strategy to generate positive experiences for consumers and retrieve their values for luxury hotels. By adopting service-dominant logic and engagement theory, this study establishes a model focusing on green value cocreation experience, including green participation and green value in use, as the starting point that leads to green satisfaction and emotional attachment and ultimately, customer brand engagement with environmental apathy as a boundary condition. To test the hypotheses, partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is utilized on a sample of 401 luxury hotel guests. The testing results confirm the proposed hypotheses, suggesting that green value cocreation experience can foster green satisfaction and emotional attachment and finally, customer brand engagement under the moderating role of environmental apathy. Based on the results, some important theoretical and practical implications are proposed.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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