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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Beyond Subjectivity: Competing Governance Regimes And The Socio-Material Construction Of Rational

Rationality – originally assumed to be perfect, then to be more bounded – is the core tenet of economic theories of action. Consumer behavior provides a more nuanced picture with an entire Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Léna Pellandini-Simányi
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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To Touch Or Not To Touch?: How Touch Influences Decision Confidence

An unfortunate reality of online shopping is that people do not have the opportunity to touch the actual products. When choosing between different options online, people often wish that they could Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Sang Kyu Park, Yang Yang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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How Passive Form Messages In CSR Advertisement Improve Consumer Reaction To The Campaign

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature has documented that running a pro-social campaign provides indirect benefits to companies such as higher purchase likelihood and better perceived Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Taehoon Park, Anastasiya Pocheptsova Ghosh, Elise Chandon Ince
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Neutral Face Of Blue: How Color Can Make Consumers Stay Sensitive

According to The Largest U.S. Charities, released by Forbes (Forbes 2017), more than half of the top 50 charities in the US use red, blue, or both in their logos. Despite this widespread use of red Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Sung-Hee W. Paik, Jiao Zhang, Aparna Sundar, Gabriele Paolacci, Gizem Yalcin
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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With Or Without You: How Second Person Pronouns Engage Listeners

What makes cultural products popular? Could products that literally speak to “you” be more engaging? Academics have long been interested in whether the use of second person pronouns (e.g., you, Read More »

Date: 2018
Author: Grant Packard, Jonah Berger
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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