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.
Behavioral and targeted advertising promises significant gains for firms and reduce search costs and better meet consumer needs (Chen & Stallaert 2010; George & Hogendorn 2012; Yan et al. Read More »
Product customization, whereby consumers self-design their products using a seller’s mass customization (MC) interface, has the potential to provide consumers with offers that closely match their Read More »
A basic tenet of rational choice theory is that people choose the outcome that produces the highest subjective expected utility (Savage, 1954; von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1947). Decades of research Read More »
The rising conflict between the growing sensitivity towards environmental concerns while living in a material world has interested consumer researchers and policy makers for some time. To date, the Read More »
To be successful, innovations should be perceived as novel and different from existing alternatives (Gatignon and Xuereb 1997, Henard and Szymanski 2001). The handful of studies that explored the Read More »