The face of the un-consumer: An empirical examination of the practice of voluntary simplicity in the United States

By Mary E. Huneke. 2005

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Ethical Consumption and New Business Models in the Food Industry. Evidence from the Eataly Case (2013, background): “Over time, a proliferation of consumption expressions (Newholm and Shaw 2007) have emerged in the academic debate, among others, shopping misbehaviour (Vitell 2003), consumer resistance (IzberkBilgin 2010; Kozinets and Handelman 2004), voluntary simplicity, (Ballantine and Creery 2010; Cherrier 2009”
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).”
Voluntary simplicity: an exploration of market interactions (2009, background): “Today, too, there is evidence to suggest that, at least in the US, voluntary simplifiers are well educated and have above-average incomes, and that products have already been launched to capitalise upon voluntary simplicity adopters (Huneke, 2005).”
The coherence of inconsistencies: Attitude–behaviour gaps and new consumption communities (2012, background): “…consumer groups with accentuated environmental concerns, such as resistant consumers (Dobscha, 1998; Ritson & Dobscha, 1999), voluntary simplifiers (Huneke, 2005; McDonald, Oates, Young, & Hwang, 2006), ethical simplifiers (Shaw & Newholm, 2002), downshifters (Schor, 1998), green consumers…”
Subjective Well-Being among Adolescent Consumers: The Effects of Materialism, Compulsive Buying, and Time Affluence (2012, background): “In this regard, Kasser and Sheldon (2009) have introduced the concept of “time affluence.”
What we know about anticonsumption: An attempt to nail jelly to the wall (2020, background): “(2009). From trash to treasure and beyond: The meaning of voluntary disposition. Journal of Consumer Behaviour: An International Research Review, 8(6), 340–353. https://doi. org/10.1002/cb.301 Albinsson, P. A., Wolf, M., & Kopf, D. A. (2010). Anti‐consumption in East Germany: Consumer resistance to ”
Sharing as a form of anti‐consumption? An examination of toy library users (2010, methodology): “The voluntary simplicity construct was measured with 3-items from the scale developed by Huneke (2005).”
The consumption and disposition behaviour of voluntary simplifiers (2010, methodology): “Possessions considered more meaningful and reflective of self were harder to dispose of; although overall, the participants reflected Nelson et al. (2007) in that they were eventually able to decouple their identity from these goods.”