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Forced Choice Restriction in Promoting Sustainable Food Consumption: Intended and Unintended Effects of the Mandatory Vegetarian Day in Helsinki Schools
Lombardini, Chiara; Lankoski, Leena - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 36 (2013) 2, pp. 159-178
This paper discusses the use of forced restriction of food choice as an instrument of food policy by using the mandatory Helsinki School District weekly vegetarian day as a natural experiment. Overall, the results show that the initiative produced a mixture of intended and unintended effects. On...
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Sustainability labels on food products: Consumer motivation, understanding and use
Grunert, Klaus G.; Hieke, Sophie; Wills, Josephine - In: Food Policy 44 (2014) C, pp. 177-189
This study investigates the relationship between consumer motivation, understanding and use of sustainability labels on … size of 4408 respondents. Respondents expressed medium high to high levels of concern with sustainability issues at the … sustainability was limited, but understanding of four selected labels (Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, Carbon Footprint, and Animal …
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Cognitive and motivational structure of sustainability
Dam, Ynte K. van; Trijp, Hans C.M. van - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 5, pp. 726-741
In this paper the cognitive and motivational perceptual structure of sustainability of light users of sustainable … products are empirically compared to the Brundlandt definition and the Triple-P-Baseline definition of sustainability. Results …, as well as the People, Planet and Prosperity dimensions of the Triple-P definition of sustainability. In the motivational …
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A Dual-Step and Dual-Process Model of Advertising Effects: Implications for Reducing the Negative Impact of Advertising on Children's Consumption Behaviour
Büttner, Oliver; Florack, Arnd; Serfas, Benjamin - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 37 (2014) 2, pp. 161-182
Children are important targets of advertising campaigns from companies. However, children have been found to be particularly vulnerable to negative effects of advertising, and protecting children from these effects is an important task of consumer policy. Two important aspects have to be...
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From Knowledge to Action—New Paths Towards Sustainable Consumption
Thøgersen, John; Schrader, Ulf - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 35 (2012) 1, pp. 1-5
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Material Distortion of Economic Behaviour and Everyday Decision Quality
Gidlöf, Kerstin; Wallin, Annika; Holmqvist, Kenneth; … - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 36 (2013) 4, pp. 389-402
Misleading information and unfair commercial practices have to be viewed against the background of what consumers otherwise do, i.e., what their purchase decisions look like when no misleading information or no unfair commercial practices are in place. This article provides some of this...
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An analysis of the construct “involvement” in consumer behaviour
Rodríguez-Santos, M.; González-Fernández, Ana; … - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 2, pp. 1105-1123
The aim of this paper is to analyse the construct involvement. Specifically, the present work extends the sphere of study of the construct involvement at brand level, applying it to Denominations of Origin (D.O.s). Hence, after an overview of the concept, it suggests a cognitive approach to the...
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Preference characterisation and indirect Allais coefficients
SCHROYEN, Fred - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 1995
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The role of (foreign?) culture on consumer buying behaviour: What changes when living abroad?
Lichy, Jessica; Pon, Kevin - In: Transnational Marketing Journal 1 (2013) 1, pp. 5-21
Contemporary notions of marketing - such as international subcultures, the Information Society and the global village - would lead us to believe that consumers have access to and consume an abundance of products from different countries. In the light of increasing standardisation by global...
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Glory Out of Reflected Failure: The examination of how rivalry affects sport fans
Havard, Cody T. - In: Sport Management Review 17 (2014) 3, pp. 243-253
Most studies on participant or fan rivalry have employed quantitative methods to investigate the phenomenon (Kilduff, Elfenbein, & Staw, 2010; Kimble & Cooper, 1992; Smith & Schwartz, 2003). The current study adds to the existing literature by using qualitative analysis to investigate the way fans make...
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