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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Consumers’ Journey Into Access-Based Consumption: A Narrative Analysis Approach

Consumers are increasingly shifting from traditional ownership based consumption to relatively novel access-based consumption (hereafter, ABC). Access involves transactions that are market mediated Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Swapnil Saravade, Lorena Garcia-Ramon, Jacob Almaguer, Mohammadali Zolfagharian, Hazel H. Dadanlar
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Self-Bolstering Effects Of Repeated Affirmations Over Time

Should you listen again to that song you have been listening to on repeat, or should you listen to different song? We make consumption choices like this on a daily basis without really knowing if Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Ted Matherly, Alejandra Rodriguez
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Pangs From Persuasion: When Recommendations Undermine Consumers’ Social Worth

Research on the Persuasion Knowledge Model (PKM) (Friestad and Wright 1994) has documented many negative responses to persuasion attempts (Isaac and Grayson 2017), including lower attitudes towards Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Suzanne Rath, Laurence Ashworth, Nicole Robitaille
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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A Rational Model To Predict Consumers’ Irrational Behavior

The current research developed a mathematical model that could predict consumers’ price-quality perceptions based on their ability and motivation to process the product information accurately. This Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Vahid Rahmani
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Bundle Variety And Preference: A Neuromarketing Study Using Event-related Potentials

Bundling has raised many interests for decades (e.g., Hansen & Martin, 1987; Janiszewski & Cunha Jr, 2004), but very few studies have been conducted to systematically examine the relationship between Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Ruyi Qiu, Xiaoang Wan
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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