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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Meaningful Numbers: Consumer Response To Verbal Reaffirmation Of Numerical Nutrition Information

Although the types of front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels that best engage and influence consumers’ product evaluations and decision-making processes are still poorly understood (Newman, Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Steffen Jahn, Till Dannewald, Yasemin Boztug, Monique Breaz
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Price Of A Threat: How Social Identity Threat Influences Price Sensitivity

João is a reliable worker in a low-pay but quite stable job. Nonetheless, João is black, uneducated, and lives in a favela. No wonder he is highly sensitive to cues that threaten one or multiple Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Jorge Jacob, Yan Vieites, Eduardo B. Andrade, Rafael Goldszmidt
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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To Apologize, Or Not To Apologize? That Is A Question - How Should An Organization Respond To

Crisis is a low-probability but high-impact phenomenon that hurts an organization’s credibility and reputation (Pearson and Clair, 1998). Crisis can result from employees’ misconducts in the Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Juan Wang, Towhidul Islam, Zayed Bin Islam
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Making The Wait Worthwhile: Experiments On The Effect Of Queueing On Consumption

Customers spend a significant amount of time waiting in lines, however, the effect of waiting in a line on consumption decisions is not known. Existing literature indicates waiting results in Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Sezer Ülkü, Chris Hydock, Shiliang Cui
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Trust No One. Verify Everything: Bitcoin

Alongside money, trust is inevitably an important part of society’s existence. The system works because we trust it to work. And yet, so much our lives are lived in constant dis-trust such as fear Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Mariam Humayun, Russell Belk
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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