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.
Suppose you had the option to choose between a healthy (e.g., salad) and an unhealthy (e.g., chocolate cake) food item, with one item placed on your left visual field and the other item placed on Read More »
Energy efficiency plays an increasingly important role in policy because it addresses rising energy prices and the negative externalities of energy consumption from pollution. Although the Read More »
From deciding what dessert to order to choosing which airline to fly so that one can accrue more mileage points, consumer behavior is largely goal driven. Goals can be broadly dichotomized into Read More »
This study explains the mechanism that leads corporate reputation to product brand equity. We achieve this by introducing a theoretical model based on signaling theory that tests (a) two mediating Read More »
New products are often incongruent with consumer expectations. Researchers have shown that consumers prefer moderately incongruent products, while being adverse to extremely incongruent products. Read More »