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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It Might Be Exciting, But I’m Not In Mood Today. Mall Atmospherics, Shopping Behavior, And Mood

This research aims to demonstrate how both valence and arousal of incidental moods can moderate the relationship between the level of atmospheric arousal in a mall environment setting and shopping Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Raúl Pérez López, Laura Lucia Palacios, Yolanda Polo Redondo
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Creating Closeness In Retailing: Comparing Retailers And Consumers Perspectives

This article investigates the ill understood notion of closeness in retailing. Using a qualitative study with 69 semi-structured interviews, we show how retailers as well as consumers relate to Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Damien Chaney, Maryline Schultz
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Is The Decision Of SMEs To Establish An Online Shop Influenced By Institutional Pressure?

The aim of this paper is to investigate factors that influence the intention of an SME to launch an online shop. A PLS model is used based on the Technology Acceptance Model and is extended with Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Matthias Schu, Dirk Morschett, Frank Haelsig, Bernhard Swoboda
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Active Return Management For Online Retailer

High product return rates and their associated costs pose major challenges to online retailers. We investigate whether online retailers always benefit from active return management by ana-lysing the Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Siham El Kihal, Christian Schulze, Bernd Skiera
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Influence Of Web Design And Buyer Characteristics On Browsing Behaviour

Although the effects of interactivity and personalisation tools on browsing experience has been the subject of previous research, the impact of variable levels of such features on buyers’ Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Prithwiraj Nath, Sally McKechnie
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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