Consumer Activism

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Power And Resistance To Social Influence: The Moderating Role Of Attitude Certainty

A consistent finding in consumer research is that attitudes toward products, services, and consumption in general can be influenced by other people’s opinions (e.g., Bearden and Etzel 1982). Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Mehdi Mourali, Zhiyong Yang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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An Analysis Of Anger Responses Within The Context Of Virtualized Consumption Of Hatsune Miku

Does anger reflect deep meaning of attachment and integration? In an effort to explicate the above notion and to capture the rapidly evolving consumer behaviour in the digital virtual terrain, the Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Lukman Aroean, Philip Sugai
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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Faking It With Luxury Counterfeit Products: How Social Feedback Can Make Us More Or Less Dishonest

Purchase of counterfeit luxury goods is a worldwide phenomenon. Past research in marketing has mostly focused on why consumers purchase counterfeit luxury goods (e.g., Han, Nunes, and Dreze Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Deborah Roedder-John, Yajin Wang
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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The Content And Impact Of Mobile Versus Desktop Reviews

Although there is a growing body of research on the content and impact of word-of-mouth on consumer behavior, little is known about differences between mobile and traditional desktop reviews. Recent Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: Nicholas Lurie, Sam Ransbotham, Hongju Liu
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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You Gotta Try It! The Negative Side Of Positive Word Of Mouth

Word of mouth (WOM) is a fundamental process in the marketplace (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955). Positive WOM can increase consumer attitudes (Bone 1995), switching behavior (Wangenheim and Bayon 2004), Read More »

Date: 2013
Author: David L. Alexander, Sarah G. Moore
Contributor: eb™ Research Team
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