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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Within-Category Versus Cross-Category Substitution In Food Consumption

Substitutes are goods that can replace one another by satisfying, at least partly, the same consumers’ needs (Nicholson 1998). When a desired product is not available or its price is deemed too Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Young Eun Huh, Carey K. Morewedge, Joachim Vosgerau
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Influence Of Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts On The Moral Behavior Of Consumers

Prior research has focused on firm level outcomes associated with corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, or a company’s activities and status related to its perceived societal or Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Kevin Newman, Merrie Brucks
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Framework For The Evaluation Of Experiences Before Consumption: Self, Vividness, And Narrative

We present a framework that explains how consumers evaluate experiences before consumption, and how this evaluation differs from that of products. We suggest that experiences are evaluated closer to Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Iñigo Gallo, Sanjay Sood
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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When The Right Is Not So Rigid: Political Ideology And Charitable Giving Revisited

The mental rigidity of ideological conservatives, known as the rigidity-of-the-right, is well-documented. In their thorough review, Jost et al. (2003, 352) conclude that “by far the most convincing Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Andrew M. Kaikati, Carlos J. Torelli, Karen Page Winterich
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Social Comparison To Advertising Depictions: Exploring Advertising Practitioners’ Perspectives

Social comparison, proposed nearly 60 years ago by Festinger (1954) is defined as an evaluative process in which an individual compares himself or herself on some dimension to a target of comparison Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Catherine A. Coleman, Linda Tuncay Zayer
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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