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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Customer Acceptance Of Usage Behavior-Based Prices

Usage behavior-based pricing is a frequently discussed innovative approach in designing more efficient value propositions for services of which the operating cost heavily depends on customer Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Patrick Sihler, Markus Voeth
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Can FMCG Producers Get Away With Deceptive Packaging And Slack Filling? An Investigation Of

Although the practice of deceptive packaging is neither new nor unknown, the literature on this issue is very scare. The aims of this research are to discover the extent to which consumers are aware Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Stephen Wilkins, Carina Beckenuyte
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Exposure To Mastery And Perceived Self-Efficacy

We hypothesize and test that observing masterful performances of experts at difficult activities increases one’s perceptions of self-efficacy at those same activities. The exertion of control Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Simona Botti, Irene Scopelliti, Carmen Donato
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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A Way Around The Left-Digit Bias? The Role Of Mental Number Representations In Rounding Decisions

Why are consumers’ price judgments anchored on prices’ leftmost digits and when do people round fractional prices (e.g., $2.99 to $3.00) during mental computations? Three experiments show that Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: Tatiana Sokolova, Manoj Thomas
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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On Investigating The Role Of Network Effects As Moderating Enabler In Product-Harm Crises

There is a growing interest in research regarding the antecedents that impact consumer responses in times of product-harm crises. Still, most of the existing studies seem to, either, focus on Read More »

Date: 06/03/2014
Author: George Siomkos, Ioannis Tsiamis
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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