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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The New Generation Of Eco-Innovators – Beyond Purism And Biospheric Values

The economic damage of environmental pollution is remarkable. Consequently, there is a need for companies to consider environmental issues in product development and to understand why consumers adopt Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Katja Soyez, Sebastian Gurtner
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Effect Of Objective, Subjective And Calibration Of Supplementary Knowledge On Really-New

Really-new products (RNPs) create new product categories for consumers. Consumers use their knowledge of similar categories to comprehend and evaluate RnPs. This paper shows that, in addition to Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Kamran Razmdoost, Radu Dimitriu
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Pricing New Service For Consumer Acceptance: The Influence Of Consumer Characteristics And

In order to shed more light upon the effect of pricing for the successful launch of service innovations (SIs), we investigate the effect of a high versus low launch price on perceived price fairness Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Monika Schuhmacher, Sabine Kuester, Anna-Lena Fertmann
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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It’s Not The Quality But The Effort Itself That Matters? Advertiser Effort And Consumer

Introducing the concept of equitable exchange to advertising, this paper tests the popular notion that “advertising needs to earn consumers’ attention”. Drawing on equity theory, we hypothesize Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Micael Dahlén, Lars Bergkvist, Stefan Szugalski
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Antecedents Of Community Engagement In Online Loyalty Programs

Engagement is a concept which is currently proving to be of enormous interest in both academic as well as business fields. In addition to providing further insights into the notion, or more Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Ana María Gutiérrez, Rebeca San José, Angel Domínguez
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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