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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Staging The Museumspace: Overlapping Personal, Social, And Hedonic Experiences

A visit to museum is beyond receiving services from the staff or knowledge from browsing and reflecting on the experiences of interacting with the exhibits. Instead, service encounters at the museum Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Ada Leung, Huimin Xu, Jessica Schocker
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Healthful Food Decision-Making At The Point Of Purchase: An Update On Nutrition Labeling

Nutrition labeling aims to help consumers make healthful food decisions. However, consumers often make habitual decisions that are driven by taste when shopping groceries and disregard nutrition Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Joerg Koenigstorfer, Grażyna Wąsowicz-Kiryło, Małgorzata Styśko-Kunkowska, Andrea Groeppel-Klein
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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I’ll Keep The Cuddly One: Effects Of Cuteness Versus Elegance On Product Retention

Despite the existence of several successful cute-looking products in the marketplace, such as the Volkswagen Beetle or the numerous Hello Kitty accessories, it seems that marketers still prefer Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: He (Michael) Jia, Gratiana Pol, C.W. Park
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Value Is Shaped By Unsatisfied Desire: Activating Frustrated Values From Past Tradeoffs Dynamically

Traditional (e.g., microeconomic) views have presumed that the values or utilities people attach to various entities are fixed. From this perspective, making a good decision requires a valid process Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Stephanie M. Carpenter, Brian D. Vickers, J. Frank Yates
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Concealing Your Consumer Stupidity: How The Fear Of Appearing As An Incompetent Consumer Reduces

This research proposes that the decision to share negative wordof-mouth (WOM) will involve a dilemma between the various benefits of sharing negative WOM and the potential psychosocial cost of Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Matthew Philp, Laurence Ashworth
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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