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Influencing consumer ethics?. Where is the academic research?. Influencing consumer ethics?. Ethical Consumer Information System Buy It Like You Mean It Better World Shopper More Prefect Market Citizen’s Market Fair Tracing Know More.
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Influencing consumer ethics? Where is the academic research?
Influencing consumer ethics? Ethical Consumer Information System Buy It Like You Mean It Better World Shopper More Prefect Market Citizen’s Market Fair Tracing Know More Influence consumers (worldwide) towards a more ethical approach to their individual and collective consumption. In practice!
What does this mean for ECIS? individualistic micro-cultural Changing consumption • Consumer decision-making(positivism) • Life changing events(phenomenology) • Consumption as voting(critical realist) • Handling complexity(poststructural)
What does this mean for ECIS? Changing consumption • Consumer decision-making • the rational consumer • high/low involvement (Deirdre Shaw) • bounded rationality (Herbert Simon) • habit, copying (Terry Newholm) • prejudice providing information building communities building outrage
What does this mean for ECIS? Changing consumption • Life changing events • latent tendencies • catharsis (Helen Chērriēr) • incidentals (Terry Newholm) • tipping points (Peter McGoldrick) constant reinforcement?
What does this mean for ECIS? Changing consumption • Consumption as voting • consumption as democracy • educate consumers (Roger Dickinson) • consume less • downshifting(Amitai Etzioni) • voluntary simplicity (Juliette Schor) • alternative hedonism(Kate Soper) get them young! negotiating ‘good/bad’ paradox – consumer involvement?
What does this mean for ECIS? Changing consumption • Handling complexity • ‘ethical consumer’ heterogeneity (Terry Newholm) • governing the consuming self (Clive Barnett) • masking the complexity (Robert Caruana) consumer choice / involvement offering best buys back to complexity
Influencing consumer ethics? • International collaborations: • academic reviews? • academic papers? • research bids? • virtual conferences? • research centre? Where is the academic research?