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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Service Recovery: A Status Perspective

Service recovery plays a strategic role in today’s competitive marketplace. To assure the effectiveness of service recovery, scholars have been debating whether companies should provide recovery Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Zhi Lu, Anna Mattila, Lisa E. Bolton
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Effect Of Perceived Elevation On Consumer Risk-Taking

We frequently use directional words such as “up” or “down” to talk about the concepts related to power. Sentences such as “he is at the height of his power” or “he fell from power” Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Ata Jami, Himanshu Mishra, William Moore
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Brands Status And Reverse Placebo Effects: High Status Products Inhibit Performance Despite Being

Placebo treatments have been shown to influence medication efficacy, but recently, researchers have investigated placebo effects of marketing actions. For instance, pens and wines whose labels bear a Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Renée Gosline, Sachin Banker, Jeffrey Lee
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Which Product To Retain? The Effect Of Product-Related Versus Person-Related Product Features

Owning a product and choosing a product often go hand in hand. In some cases, ownership precedes choice; consumers first acquire redundant products, like when they receive two toasters as wedding Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Liad Weiss, Daniel Bartels
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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A Cross-Cultural Study Of Price Search Decisions

Search is an important domain in consumer behavior, and yet cross-cultural differences in search decisions remain a largely unexplored topic. The present study focuses on the following research Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Vincent Mak, Suppakron Pattaratanakun
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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