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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Consumers’ Implicit Mindsets And Responses To Cause-related Marketing Campaigns

Cause-related marketing (CRM) efforts (e.g., contributing a portion of sales to charities) enhance purchase intentions (Henderson & Arora, 2010), while donation amount that CRM garners (Elfenbein & Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Meng-Hua Hsieh, Ozge Yucel-Aybat
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Consumers’ Attribution Of Mind To Possessions As An Impediment To Sharing

Research has established that people perceive minds in a variety of objects and along two dimensions: agency referring to the capacity to plan and act, and experience referring to the capacity to Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Chi Hoang, Klemens Knöferle, Luk Warlop, Aradhna Krishna
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Resolving Humorous Incongruity In Advertising Facilitates Impressions Of Firm Competence

Humor is a common executional tactic in advertising (Eisend 2009). Given that humor affects impression formation in interindividual settings (Greengross, Martin, and Miller 2012), we propose that Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Chi Hoang, Klemens Knöferle, Luk Warlop
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The “Healthy=Lighter” Heuristic

Prior research suggests that consumers rely mostly on heuristic-based decision making when it comes to food related decisions (Wansink and Chandon 2014). For instance, a “health=expensive” Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Nico Heuvinck, Yi Li, Mario Pandelaere
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Consumer Response To Innovations: The Differential Effects Of Focused And Defocused Attention On

Focused and defocused attention has been shown to foster novel product ideas (Ansburg and Hill 2003; Friedman, Fishbach, Förster and Werth, 2003; Nijstad, De Dreu, Rietzschel and Baas 2010) but how Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Maria Sääksjärvi, Katarina Hellén
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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