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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What Is The Appropriate Reward For Product Creativity During An Idea Generation Contest: Monetary,

Idea generation contests are widespread when firms are looking for new ideas of products or services. Integrating the consumer into the new Product Development process is critical and community Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Stéphane Salgado, Virginie Debarnier, Anne-Marie Guerrin
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Dual Role Of Prior Ideas In Driving Creative Performance In Open Ideation Contests

We investigate the influence of prior ideas on solvers’ creative performance in online open ideation contests. In three lab studies and an empirical analysis of a large-scale dataset from a Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Suleiman Aryobsei, Darren Dahl, Reto Hofstetter, Andreas Herrmann
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Valuing Organic Food-Differences Between Virtue And Vice Categories Of Organic Food Products

Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of expected utility, religious and institutional perspectives, we try to understand whether differences exist in consumers’ evaluation of relative vice and Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Vassiliki Grougiou, Foivos Anastasiadis, Stefanos Giannikis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Social Values And Bandwagon Motivations In The Context Of Luxury Consumption

The global luxury market has seen an incredible increase in value during the last decades. Notwithstanding its volume, the marketing of luxury products has only attracted limited attention from Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Spiros Gounaris, Kalipso Karantinou, Boukis Achilleas, Kostas Kaminakis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Psychological Distance Of Consumers’ Selves: Reality Vs. Ideals

Consumers’ ideal self-concepts are rather hypothetical and related to the future as compared to actual self-concepts which are experienced in the here and now. Thus, the ideal self-concept may be Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Lucia Malär, Bettina Nyffenegger, Daniela Herzog, Lisa Schürmann
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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