Consumer ethics: an application and empirical testing of the Hunt‐Vitell theory of ethics

By Scott J. Vitell, Anusorn Singhapakdi, J. L. Thomas. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR): Toward a Multi-Level, Multi-Agent Conceptualization of the “Other CSR” (2013, neutral): “The applicability of such models has been supported in settings that range from consumers’ purchase of Fair Trade products (e.g., Shaw and Clarke 1999; Shaw et al. 2000) to consumer misconduct and illegal transgressions (e.g., Fukukawa 2002; Vitell et al. 2001).”
Sharing Sustainability: How Values and Ethics Matter in Consumers’ Adoption of Public Bicycle-Sharing Scheme (2016, background): “When consumers make decisions that involve ethical issues, they may evaluate various alternatives in terms of their moral implications (Vitell et al. 2001).”
Consumer motives for purchasing organic coffee (2015, background): “While consumers’ behaviors are clearly influenced by their perceptions and attitudes (Vitell et al., 2001), attitude alone is not always a good 1159 Consumer motives”
An Exploratory Study into the Factors Impeding Ethical Consumption (2011, background): “Hunt & Vittel’s General theory of Marketing Ethics (Vitell and Muncy, 1992; Hunt and Vitell, 1986) was developed to explain the ethical behaviour of marketing practitioners, but may also be applied to the study of ethical consumer behaviour (Marks and Mayo, 1991; Vitell et al., 2001).”
The Role of Spiritual Well-Being and Materialism in Determining Consumers’ Ethical Beliefs: An Empirical Study with Australian Consumers (2012, background): “Although the relationship between materialism and consumer ethics has been studied before (e.g. Muncy and Eastman 1998; Vitell et al. 2001, etc.), the results are mixed.”
Studying the ethical consumer: a review of research (2007, background): “…information, complexity and the moral self Although not specifically aimed at understanding ethical consumption as a project, the Hunt-Vitell model (Vitell et al., 2001) Copyright # 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Sep.–Oct. 2007 DOI 10.1002/cb assumes a rational…”
Virtue in Consumption? (2004, background): “…various efforts to develop of theoretical models of consumers’ ethical decision making in particular domains (e.g. Marks and Mayo 1991; Fullerton and Punj 1993; Tan 2002; Vitell et al. 2001), some of which have applied attitude models in an attempt to understand the attitudebehaviour discrepancy.”
Personal Characteristics Underlying Ethical Decisions in Marketing Situations: A Survey of Small Business Managers** (2008, neutral): “These variables have been subjected to a significant amount of empirical verification, including a series of studies of ethics in marketing by Vitel and his colleagues (Vitell, Singhapakdi, and Thomas 2001; Vitell, Rallapalli, and Singhapakdi 1993).”
Consumer complicity with counterfeit products (2011, background): “Linking ethical perspectives to consumer complicity The role of an ethical perspective that shapes consumer behavior towards the acquisition of counterfeit products has been addressed as an antecedent to complicity (Wilcox et al., 2009; Vitell et al., 2001).”
A Model for Fair Trade Buying Behaviour: The Role of Perceived Quantity and Quality of Information and of Product-specific Attitudes (2007, background): “This result confirms earlier findings and suggestions that both overall attitudes towards ethical – and more particularly, fair trade – issues (both positive and negative) and more specific product-related attitudes have a substantial and significant effect on buying behaviour (Authors, 2005a; Hunt ”