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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Collective Moral Identity Projects: Authentic Brand Users Anti-Counterfeit Framework

The concept of moral identity has received considerable interest by consumer behavior scholars in the past decade (Winterich, Mittal, and Ross 2009). This is not surprising considering the Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Anna Jansson Vredeveld, William T. Ross, Jr., Robin A. Coulter
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Fighting For A Cause Or Against It: A Longitudinal Perspective

How do companies persuade consumers to buy their products? They have many ways such as advertising, sales promotion, free product trials, etc. However, non-profit organizations face a unique Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Keith Botner, Arul Mishra, Himanshu Mishra
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Roles Of Appropriateness And Relevance In Determining Reactions To Humor In Frontline Service

In The Experience Economy, Pine and Gilmore (1999) suggest that service firms can use humor to create a competitive edge. A humorous approach to provision has been discussed in services as disparate Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: J. Mark Mayer, Michelle Roehm, Michael Brady
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Moderating Role Of Regulatory Focus On The Social Modeling Of Food Intake

Previous research on the social modeling of food intake has shown that individuals’ food consumption is strongly influenced by the food consumption of their eating companions, that is, individuals Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Johanna Palcu, Arnd Florack, Malte Friese
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Positive Brand Inferences From Processing Disfluency

Despite the widespread use of acronyms in branding (e.g., IKEA, WWF), little is known in terms of how consumers perceive them. According to research on processing fluency, easy-to-pronounce acronyms Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Hae Joo Kim, Melanie Dempsey
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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