Motivations of the Ethical Consumer

By O. Freestone, P. McGoldrick. 2008

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing

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Alliances Between Brands and Social Causes: The Influence of Company Credibility on Social Responsibility Image (2010, background): “Different stakeholders, and consumers in particular, are becoming increasingly demanding of companies, requiring not only better quality products and services at a lower price, but ones which are also produced and commercialized following ethical standards (Freestone and McGoldrick, 2008).”
Towards a Holistic Approach of the Attitude Behaviour Gap in Ethical Consumer Behaviours: Empirical Evidence from Spain (2011, methodology): “Previous research (Mohr et al. 2001; Freestone and McGoldrick 2008 ) also accepts that ethical consumers usually undergo a slow change process.”
Why Ethical Consumers Don’t Walk Their Talk: Towards a Framework for Understanding the Gap Between the Ethical Purchase Intentions and Actual Buying Behaviour of Ethically Minded Consumers (2010, background): “The broader range of issues (including environmentalism) integrated within ethical consumerism creates complex decision-making processes for ethically minded consumers (Freestone and McGoldrick, 2008).”
The Role of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness and Motivational Attitude on Socially Responsible Purchasing Behavior in South Korea (2012, methodology): “In particular, “values play an important role in consumption behavior, especially within an ethical context, since many goods and services are selected with value-related goals in mind” (Freestone & McGoldrick, 2008 , p.”
How Techniques of Neutralization Legitimize Norm- and Attitude-Inconsistent Consumer Behavior (2013, background): “Consumers are increasingly interested in corporate responsibilities and whether companies fulfill them (Cowe and Williams 2000; Freestone and McGoldrick 2008).”
Lost in translation: Exploring the ethical consumer intention–behavior gap (2014, background): “…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, & Dickinson, 2006; Szmigin et al., 2009).”