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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Proposed Scale To Measure Motivations For Selling Second-hand Products Online

Many people now use online reselling platforms to harness the power of the Internet to sell used products more efficiently. Little attention has been devoted to product disposal through resale and Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Fabien Durif, Myriam Ertz, Manon Arcand
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Honey, We Have To Talk! How Shareholders React To The Design Of Product Recall Messages

Previous research showed that consumers as well as shareholders react negatively to product recalls. Research holds that adapting the recall communication to the recall specific setting helps to Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Raoul Kübler
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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“Fifty Ways To Leave Your Cell Phone”: Product Obsolescence, Product Replacement And Product

Decreasing life span and accelerated product replacement process for technological products refer to the crucial question of product relative and psychological obsolescence, raising environmental Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Elisabeth Robinot, Fabien Durif, Dominique Kreziak, Isabelle Prim-Allaz
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Worse Than Bad: Predicting Inferences About Product Quality From Memory

Could brands associated with mostly negative information–those with poor reputations–be perceived as superior to unrecognized brands? A reasonable consumer should value reputation; however, it is Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Yvetta Simonyan, Daniel Goldstein
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Small Urban Retailers: A Motivational Approach To The Spanish Case

The word “motivation” comes from the Latin word “movere” meaning “to move”. On that basis, this paper proposes a scale of measurement of the motives that move a consumer to shop in small Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Sandra Tena Monferrer, Juan Carlos Fandos Roig, Javier Sánchez García
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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