In the first section, a literature review on identification enables a clear definition of the "Customer-Company Identification" construct to be given. Then in the second section, the conceptual framework and the main hypothesis are exposed. In the third section, an empirical investigation into a...

A transdisciplinary literature review enabled us to identify a new construct in the marketing research field, i.e. Customer-Company Identification. It is defined as the process whereby customer’s beliefs about a company become self-defining and whereby he defines himself by the same attributes...

Cet article étudie l'intégration du développement durable dans les implications des recherches francophones en marketing, au travers d'une analyse textuelle menée sur les communications de cinq Congrès récents de l'AFM, et d'une interprétation fondée sur la sociologie de Bourdieu. Une...

This article explores the purposes pursued by the French research in marketing. A scientometric analysis of four AFM Congresses communications reveals the permanence of a powerful managerial paradigm and the recent development of more societal questions. These results are discussed in a...

Cet article explore les finalités poursuivies par la recherche française en marketing. Une analyse scientométrique des communications de cinq Congrès de l'AFM révèle la permanence d'un puissant paradigme managérial et le développement récent de travaux plus sociétaux. Ces résultats...

Within the current context of the Grenelle Environment Round Table, French government advocates source reduction strategies for over-packaging. But, companies wonder about their impact on consumers. Thanks to video recorded observations and interviews with consumers, this paper aims at examining...

Whereas regulations incite companies to reduce over-wrappings, some of them still favour marketing to environmental considerations by over-packaging products. Nevertheless, according to the literature consumers are more and more ecologically concerned. Therefore addressing the issue of...

Could eliminating overpackaging from private labels be a lever for a responsible positioning without any effect on purchase intention? Drawing on the attribution theory framework, this research uses an experiment on 217 French respondents and shows that eliminating overpackaging does have an...