Voluntary Simplicity and the Ethics of Consumption

By D. Shaw, T. Newholm. 2002

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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An examination of the values that motivate socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours (2009, background): “Voluntarily curtailing personal consumption may be linked with altruistic motivations for some (e.g. Etzioni, 1998; Shaw and Newholm, 2002).”
Managing anti-consumption in an excessive drinking culture (2009, background): “Despite being an anticonsumption behavior, voluntary simplicity perhaps more accurately refers to reformulating consumption choices—for example, reducing consumption in many areas but also targeting other consumption in favor of those products and practices that are deemedmore acceptable or appropri”
Consciousness for sustainable consumption: scale development and new insights in the economic dimension of consumers’ sustainability (2013, background): “These so called “downshifters” (Shaw and Newholm 2002) are primarily motivated by living a sustainable “simple life” with low material dependency (Iwata 2006) and achieving life satisfaction through non-materialistic sources.”
A Model for Fair Trade Buying Behaviour: The Role of Perceived Quantity and Quality of Information and of Product-specific Attitudes (2007, background): “Shaw and Shiu (2002), Shaw and Newholm (2002) and Shaw et al. (2005) consider buying environmentally friendly and fairly traded products as the two most typical examples of ethical buying behaviour.”
Ethical Consumption and New Business Models in the Food Industry. Evidence from the Eataly Case (2013, background): “Researchers have highlighted the heterogeneity and complexity of ethical consumers and ethical concerns (Özçağlar-Toulouse et al. 2006; Shaw and Newholm 2002) along with the solutions that suppliers have adopted to address ethical demand (Crane 2005).”
Consumer Resistance: Proposal for an Integrative Framework (2007, background): “…point of view, “voluntary simplicity” (Elgin, 1981; Leonard-Barton, 1981) and ecological militancy are examples of significant modifications in consumption (Dobscha, 1998; Dobré, 1999; Dobscha and Ozanne, 2001; Shepherd, 2002; Zavestoski, 2002; Shaw and Newholm, 2002; Micheletti, 2003; Rémy, 2007).”
Mapping Ethical Consumer Behavior: Integrating the Empirical Research and Identifying Future Directions (2011, background): “Research was conducted to identify what voluntary simplifiers do in order to cut down on their consumption levels (Huneke, 2005; Shaw & Newholm, 2002) or to minimize their waste generation levels (Bekin, Carrigan, & Szmigin, 2007).”
The coherence of inconsistencies: Attitude–behaviour gaps and new consumption communities (2012, background): “[Stone-Hall/Cynthia] Cynthia’s views echo the values of voluntary simplifiers (Etzioni, 1998; McDonald et al., 2006; Shaw & Newholm, 2002; Zavestoski, 2002), found to a lesser extent at Community Farms and Green-Tech.”