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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Beyond Helping: The Role Of Psychological Distance In Cause-Related Product Buying Decision

Psychological distance has been established as a key antecedent to social and temporal related decision-making among consumers, along with the presentation of marketing stimuli. While much of these Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Tao Xue, Dr. Sarah Xiao
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Online Big Brother: Social Media Users’ Privacy Perceptions And Their Personal Data Disclosure

As more companies base their marketing strategies on data gathered or acquired from online social networks, our research main focus is to identify how reliable this data might be considered, taking Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Mihai Orzan, Iconaru Claudia, Macovei Octav-Ionut
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Conscientious Consumers: The Relationship Between Political Orientation And Sustainable Consumption

Our consumption choices about where to shop and what to buy, articulate something about our political beliefs and how we believe society should function in order to achieve social justice (Jost, Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Leah Watkins, Robert Aitken, Damien Mather
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Expert Or Customer? A Multi-Category Investigation Of The Impact Of Online Review Source On Its

With the growing role of Internet in everyday life and in consumer practices, the impact of online content not generated by marketers has attracted attention from the part of researchers and Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Daria Plotkina, Andreas Munzel
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Personal Inquiry And Social Recommendation: Online Word-of-Mouth Generation For Service Retailers

In this study we investigate how product (service) features and terms of transaction affect two very different word-of-mouth (WOM) activities: personal inquiry and social plugin clicks (SPC). Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Jikyung (Jeanne) Kim, Jeonghye Choi, Kyung Min Park
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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