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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Believing In And Reacting To Rumors: The Role Of Congruity And Nature Of Existing Predisposition

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Satadruta Mookherjee, Subimal Chatterjee
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Preferences For Insight And Effort Differ Across Domains And Audiences

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Gaetano “Nino” Miceli, Irene Scopelliti, Maria Antonietta Raimondo
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Linguistic Antecedents Of Anthropomorphism

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: N. Alican Mecit, Tina M. Lowrey, L. J. Shrum
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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“Yes, I Can” Or “No, I Can’t” – Effect Of Extraneous Affirmation- And Negation-Evoking

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Sudipta Mandal, Arvind Sahay, Sanjeev Tripathi
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Cultivating A Network Of Trust: Exploring The Trust Building Agency Of Objects In Home Sharing

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 »

Date: 2018
Author: Marian Makkar, Drew Franklin
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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