Ethical Brand Journal

Welcome to the first iteration of the eb™ Journal. At this stage, it contains over one thousand academic papers and other research that have been produced over several decades by over two thousand authors from around the world. The vast majority are selected because they use terms such as ethical brand and ethical branding to characterise settings and outcomes in many different techno-industrial consumption contexts that concern the social, economic and environmental well-being of humanity.

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Pattern Your Concessions? An Analysis Of Concession Behavior In Buyer-Seller Negotiations

Concessions are critical in buyer-seller negotiations, since they influence the (non-)achievement of a contractual agreement. Existing research has extensively studied concession behavior in Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Birte Kemmerling, Markus Voeth, Uta Herbst, Tatjana Becker
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Are Global Brands Trustworthy? The Role Of Brand Affect, Brand Innovativeness, And Consumer

Multinational companies essentially manage their brands globally (e.g. Red Bull, Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton), mainly because consumers tend to have similar tastes, preferences, and expectations around Read More »

Date: 10/14/2019
Author: Richard Huaman-Ramirez, Noël Albert, Dwight Merunka
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Positive And Negative E-WoM Of Hedonic And Utilitarian Consumption

Positive (negative) electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) is likely (unlikely) to motivate consumers’ purchase decisions. Negative information cues are stronger than positive information cues to affect Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Hung-Pin Shih, Liang-Chih Yang, Jian-Shiun Hu, Cheng-Hsiung Chiang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Effect Of Blurbs On Consumers’ Response

Blurbs on books have become a common advertising practice in bookstores, but their effectiveness is still questioned by the practice and no evidence can be found in the literature. As an Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Marco Visentin, Chiara Orsingher
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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On The Persuasiveness Of Opinions Versus Advice: An Information Diagnosticity Perspective

Consumers can share information about products in the form of either opinions—whereby they merely communicate whether they like or dislike a product—or advice—whereby they also provide explicit Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Matteo De Angelis, Andrea Bonezzi, Derek D. Rucker, Alessandro M. Peluso
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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