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.
Consumers do not passively process marketing influence attempts, but rather use persuasion schemas to interpret, resist, and reject persuasion (Campbell and Kirmani 2000; Friestad and Wright 1994). Read More »
As consumers, we often forgo opportunities to help ourselves and others in order to avoid embarrassment. Our fear of embarrassment prevents us from admitting we do not know how a product works such Read More »
Embarrassment is an experience that nearly everyone is familiar with. It occurs “whenever an individual is felt or have projected incompatible definitions of himself before those present” Read More »
Pride is as an emotional response to success or achievement (Lazarus 1991; MacInnis and Patrick 2006; Mukhopadhyay and Johar 2007), in which the self is attributed as having achieved an important Read More »
Online reviews allow consumers to share information about their service experiences with other consumers. Theoretically, sharing this information should reduce market information asymmetries between Read More »