Countervailing market responses to corporate co-optation and the ideological recruitment of consumption communities

By Craig J Thompson, Gokcen Coskuner-Balli. 2007

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Subfields: Marketing, Plant Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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Ethical Consumption and New Business Models in the Food Industry. Evidence from the Eataly Case (2013, background): “This contradiction resembles the argument by Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007), who maintain that critical stances, such as those mentioned above, represent the dissent of the community’s more radical and committed members, who feel that corporate power exploits their values.”
The coherence of inconsistencies: Attitude–behaviour gaps and new consumption communities (2012, background): “This resembles what Thompson and Coskuner-Balli ( 2007 , p.”
Corporations and NGOs: When Accountability Leads to Co-optation (2011, background): “…co-optation theory is that the capitalist marketplace transforms the symbols and practices of countercultural opposition into a constellation of trendy commodities and depoliticized fashion styles that are readily assimilated into the societal mainstream” (Thompson and Coskuner-Balli, 2007: 136).”
The ideology of the ethical consumption gap (2016, background): “This, of course, has brought interest from a group of business scholars interested in the question of ethical consumption (e.g. Devinney et al., 2010; Szmigin et al., 2009; Thompson and Coskuner-Balli, 2007).”
Progressing knowledge in alternative and local food networks: Critical reflections and a research agenda (2011, background): “Thus, in consumer research, studies argue that participant involvement in alternative fora can exhibit tenets of Vleben-style status competition (Thomson and Coskuner-Balli, 2007), whilst others, by conceptualising such fora in terms of their degrees of formality and festivity, reveal the experienti”
Diverse economies and alternative spaces: An overview of approaches and practices (2016, background): “Indeed, Thompson and Coskuner-Balli (2007) argue that the co-optation of the organic food movement generated a countervailing response in the form of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).”
Covert distinction: how hipsters practice food-based resistance strategies in the production of identity (2014, background): “Similarly, countervailing movements such as the “slow food” (Miele 2006 ), “natural health microculture” (Thompson and Troester 2002 ), and gourmet and organic food movements (James 1996 ; Thompson and Coskuner-Balli 2007 ) oppose McDonaldization (Ritzer 2004 ) and encourage alternative visions”
Collaborative Market Driving: How Peer Firms Can Develop Markets Through Collective Action (2020, background): “Research shows this kind of collective action often occurs among underresourced players, as in the dynamics leading to the growth of food trucks and community-supported agriculture in the United States (Esparza, Walker, and Rossman 2014; Thompson and Coskuner-Balli 2007).”
Voluntary simplicity: an exploration of market interactions (2009, background): “Others view ethical and sustainable consumption alternatives as representing acts of market resistance that have been co-opted by corporations in the advancement of commercial interests (Holt, 2002; Carducci, 2006; Thompson and Coskuner-Balli, 2007).”
From Nutrients to Nurturance: A Conceptual Introduction to Food Well-Being (2011, unknown): “For example, it is encouraging that large distributors like Wal-Mart have learned to more efficiently and globally manage the supply chain of lower-priced healthy and organic foods (Thompson and Coskuner-Balli 2007).”