Designing a Multi-Level Construct for the Successful Implementation of Green Marketing in Food Companies

In recent decades, we have witnessed an increase in the preference for buying and consuming green products on the one hand, and growing concerns about climate change, environmental pollution, and food waste density, on the other hand, which have led to serious changes in people's environmental attitudes and preferences. The tendency to use environmentally friendly products; Consequently, this issue is reflected in the behavior of economic enterprises; Their growing desire to use green marketing concepts. Based on this, the present study seeks to design a multilevel framework for the successful implementation of green marketing in food production companies with an integrated approach, which has been done as an applied research with a mixed approach (from the type of exploratory plans). The findings of the model indicate that several factors are multidimensional and intertwined in the implementation of green marketing. These factors can be categorized into four levels. The fourth level factors constitute the most fundamental layer and include the penetration of the belief in green marketing in the philosophy and vision of the company; The third level includes the support of senior managers and changes in the internal procedures of the organization; The second level includes optimizing the organizational structure, improving the organizational culture, improving the staff and managing the change process and the first level, which is at the highest and most operational level of the interpretive structural model hierarchy, includes changes in the marketing mix, understanding and implementation of green marketing audits, and the development of IT infrastructure.