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.
The prevalence of rumors is a common phenomenon in today’s world and spreading rapidly as more and more consumers adapt to the digital world of the internet and social media. Our research Read More »
A creative process is “the sequence of thoughts and actions that lead to a novel, adaptive production” (Lubart 2001, 295). Narratives of the creative process can enhance the perceived quality of Read More »
In consumer research, humanlike form has been regarded as the prerequisite for anthropomorphism (Hur, Koo, and Hofmann, 2015; Kim, Peng Chen, and Zhang, 2016). Given that activation of knowledge Read More »
In the real world, consumers often draw up a shopping list by recalling brand names. Lynch Jr and Srull (1982) classified such choice options as “memory-based”. If consumers cannot recall a Read More »
With trust so central to the function and success of home sharing, this research proposes that trust is best established through interplay of trust entities. However, apart from literature detailing Read More »