The Korean wave has become a global phenomenon whose effect has been widely studied in Asia, Europe and the US. However the presumption of cultural distance makes it appear unlikely that the Korean wave could gain traction among African consumers of cultural products. As such, a dearth of...

This paper rebuts Keller (2021) and the feminist view that Greta Thunberg’s 2019 visit to ‘tar sands’ Alberta sparked ugly push-back by pro-oil activists due to ‘patriarchal petroculture’ rather than this resistance being a response to an on-going geopolitical ‘green’ transnational...

Using a framework that distinguishes short-term consumer preferences, individual reflective preferences and political preferences, we discuss from a constitutional economics perspective whether individuals find it in their common constitutional interest to endow representatives and bureaucrats...

Using a framework that distinguishes short-term consumer preferences, individual reflective preferences and political preferences, we discuss from a constitutional economics perspective whether individuals find it in their common constitutional interest to endow representatives and bureaucrats...

We examine how, why and which consumers infer company mask policies to be politically motivated, impacting their purchase interest. Five studies (N = 3,438) demonstrate that consumers use a company’s mask policy as a proxy for its underlying political ideology but interpret the political...

We analyze consumer sentiment with a novel survey of Thai and Vietnamese consumers conducted in May 2020, that is, shortly after the end of the immediate lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a randomized control trial, we expose subgroups of the survey respondents to four different...

Policy makers worldwide are reaching a consensus about the need to develop policies with a substantial impact on consumer behavior in order to meet the environmental grand challenges of this century: efficient use of scarce natural resources and climate change mitigation. Nonetheless, little...

The growth of e-commerce in any jurisdiction cannot be divorced from the confidence of consumers in the system. Lack of confidence in the system can be directly related to ambiguity surrounding consumer rights, where there is a perceived lacuna in the law. To boost confidence in the system,...

The novel human coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic coupled with the enforced lockdown to contain its spread has wrecked unequivocal havoc on the economy front in which the agriculture sector is no exception. Though the Union Government in India rightly kept agricultural activities out of...