The conscious consumer: taking a flexible approach to ethical behaviour

By Isabelle Szmigin, Marylyn Carrigan, M. McEachern. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Marketing

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Fostering Responsible Communities: A Community Social Marketing Approach to Sustainable Living (2011, background): “…Against, Behavioral Inconsistencies Interpretive studies (Boulstridge and Carrigan, 2000; Carrigan and Attalla, 2001) have also problematized attitude-behavior gaps, and the number of behavioral inconsistencies enacted around ‘conscious consumption’ (Szmigin et al., 2009; McEachern, et al., 2007).”
Lost in translation: Exploring the ethical consumer intention–behavior gap (2014, background): “The decision-making process and translation between purchase intentions and shopping practices is highly complex and the established survey-based methods for observing ethical consumption fail to capture this complexity (De Pelsmacker et al., 2005; Freestone & McGoldrick, 2008; Shaw, Newholm, & Dick”
Mapping Ethical Consumer Behavior: Integrating the Empirical Research and Identifying Future Directions (2011, background): “The process of becoming an ethical consumer has not yet been thoroughly examined, although evidence suggests that ethical consumers go through a slow process of change when adopting ethical lifestyles (Szmigin et al., 2009).”
Consumers’ Behavior Concerning Sustainable Packaging: An Exploratory Study on Romanian Consumers (2018, background): “Other authors [27,28] argue that, despite the good intentions of consumers, actual purchasing behavior is often unaffected by ethical concerns, or, even if they are aware of ethics, consumers have dissonance and flexibility in their buying behavior.”
Corporate social responsibility in the food sector (2011, background): “Nevertheless, the results of the empirical studies cited in Table 1 and the findings of qualitative research (Mohr et al., 2001; Szmigin et al., 2009) allow drawing some hints about the motivation for ethical consumerism.”
The coherence of inconsistencies: Attitude–behaviour gaps and new consumption communities (2012, background): “For example, McEachern et al. (2007) and Szmigin, Carrigan, and McEachern (2009) conceptualise the role of flexibility and cognitive dissonance in what they have termed conscious consumption contexts.”
The ideology of the ethical consumption gap (2016, background): “…of consumers state that they intend to shop in line with ethical considerations (e.g. looking for labels and certifications such as Fairtrade, FSC- and MSC-certified, B Corp, etc.), following through on these intentions is rare (Auger and Devinney, 2007; Belk et al., 2005; Szmigin et al., 2009).”
Individual values and motivational complexities in ethical clothing consumption: A means-end approach (2012, background): “Consequently, the ethical clothing consumer encounters complexities and needs to compromise (Szmigin et al., 2009), as s/he has to prioritise between self-enhancing and self-transcendent values.”
Saluting while the ship sinks: the necessity for tourism paradigm change (2018, background): “…living, environmental and social justice, and ecological sustainability in the products and services they purchase, the companies in which they invest, the politicians and policies they support, the companies for which they work and, ultimately, the lifestyles they lead (Szmigin et al., 2009).”
Emotions and dissonance in ‘ethical’ consumption choices (2013, background): “A possible explanation for the attitude–behaviour gap is offered by the ‘flexible’ and ‘dissonant behaviour’ that ethical consumers adopt (McEachern et al., 2010; Szmigin et al., 2009).”