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Choi, Kyu-ho, Kyu Jung Kim, Kim In-Seob, and 김춘희. "The Effective Research of Commercial Movie through Consumer's Eye Movement." Korean Journal of Art and Media 9, no. 2 (November 2010): 143–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.36726/cammp.2010.9.2.143.
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Partridge, Henry. "The determinants of and barriers to critical consumption: a study of Addiopizzo." Modern Italy 17, no. 3 (August 2012): 343–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.594999.
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‘Addiopizzo’ (Goodbye protection money) is a grassroots anti-mafia movement based in Palermo that stresses the individual consumer's responsibility for maintaining the Sicilian mafia's pizzo system. If you purchase products from a business that pays the pizzo you are indirectly supporting the mafia. By encouraging Palermitans to buy from ‘pizzo-free’ businesses, Addiopizzo uses the purchasing power of the consumer to fight organised crime. The community of ‘pizzo-free’ businesses is small but steadily growing whilst the number of critical consumers pledging to buy their products appears to have peaked. This article aims to investigate the reasons why consumers may be reluctant to support ‘pizzo-free’ businesses by asking those who have already made public their decision to do so. Whilst critical consumers cannot fully explain why the majority of Palermo's citizens continue to tolerate the pizzo system their attitudes towards them do highlight differences that may help to account for wider non-participation in Addiopizzo's campaign.
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Hillaert, Jasmijn, Martijn L. Vandegehuchte, Thomas Hovestadt, and Dries Bonte. "Information use during movement regulates how fragmentation and loss of habitat affect body size." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1884 (August 15, 2018): 20180953. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0953.
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An individual's body size is central to its behaviour and physiology, and tightly linked to its movement ability. The spatial arrangement of resources and a consumer's capacity to locate them are therefore expected to exert strong selection on consumer body size. We investigated the evolutionary impact of both the fragmentation and loss of habitat on consumer body size and its feedback effects on resource distribution, under varying levels of information used during habitat choice. We developed a mechanistic, individual-based, spatially explicit model, including several allometric rules for key consumer traits. Our model reveals that as resources become more fragmented and scarce, informed habitat choice selects for larger body sizes while random habitat choice promotes small sizes. Information use may thus be an overlooked explanation for the observed variation in body size responses to habitat fragmentation. Moreover, we find that resources can accumulate and aggregate if information about resource abundance is incomplete. Informed movement results in stable resource–consumer dynamics and controlled resources across space. However, habitat loss and fragmentation destabilize local dynamics and disturb resource suppression by the consumer. Considering information use during movement is thus critical to understand the eco-evolutionary dynamics underlying the functioning and structuring of consumer communities.
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Guterman, Beverly R. "The Validity of Categorical Learning Disabilities Services: The Consumer's View." Exceptional Children 62, no. 2 (October 1995): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001440299506200202.
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Using qualitative methodology, this study investigated the effects of special education placement from the perspectives of nine high school students receiving learning disabilities services in separate classrooms. Three topics were investigated: peer acceptance, perceptions of self, and perceived efficacy of learning disabilities programs. Results indicated that students did not view their special education experiences as either socially or academically efficacious. Nevertheless, they valued the services because separate settings had provided means to avoid an unresponsive general education system. Students viewed the movement for integration of general and special education services as unrealistic. They perceived existent general education as unable and unwilling to adapt to individual student needs.
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Chung, Hyenyeong, Jiyeon Lee, and Yunju Nam. "Influence of Endorser's Gaze Direction on Consumer's Visual Attention, Attitude and Recognition : Focused on the Eye Movement." Korean Journal of Advertising 29, no. 7 (October 15, 2018): 29–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14377/kja.2018.10.15.29.
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Listartha, I. Made Edy, Gede Indrawan, and Kadek Yota Ernanda Aryanto. "PEMETAAN AKTIFITAS KONSUMEN TOKO MENGGUNAKAN METODE BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION." International Journal of Natural Science and Engineering 1, no. 2 (November 3, 2017): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/ijnse.v1i2.12468.
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This study aims to heat mapping the consumer’s movement using background subtraction techniques. The mapping is built using the coordinate information obtained from the consumer location that detected from the video where the separation of the consumer object and the background is done by background subtraction technique. Tests were performed on eleven video of consumer data activity that have different activity characteristics that were created using Microsoft PowerPoint application. Simulated activities include walking straight, staying, walking back to the path that had been passed, pacing, disturbance from another object, the influence of color, the consumer walks meet and coincide with other consumers. From the test of video discovery is obtained accuracy of 96.07% for the detection process of consumer movement, where the lack of detection process occurs due to the absence of techniques used to perform the introduction of characteristics of consumer objects. The mapping process is very much in line with the number of coordinates generated in the motion detection process, but the inaccurate detection of movement in the entrance and exit areas makes the coordinates high. By filtering with Region of Interes (ROI) in the survey area, creating disturbances in the area of doors and areas with objects that produce movements other than consumers can be eliminated.
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Gollnhofer, Johanna F., Henri A. Weijo, and John W. Schouten. "Consumer Movements and Value Regimes: Fighting Food Waste in Germany by Building Alternative Object Pathways." Journal of Consumer Research 46, no. 3 (February 21, 2019): 460–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucz004.
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Abstract Consumer movements strive to change markets when those markets produce value outcomes that conflict with consumers’ higher-order values. Prior studies argue that consumer movements primarily seek to challenge these value outcomes by championing alternative higher-order values or by pressuring institutions to change market governance mechanisms. Building on and refining theorization on value regimes, this study illuminates a new type of consumer movement strategy where consumers collaborate to construct alternative object pathways. The study draws from ethnographic fieldwork in the German retail food sector and shows how building alternative object pathways allowed a consumer movement to mitigate the value regime’s excessive production of food waste. The revised value regime theorization offers a new and more holistic way of understanding and contextualizing how and where consumer movements mobilize for change. It also provides a new tool for understanding systemic value creation and the role of consumers in such processes.
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Webb, Janette. "Seduced or Sceptical Consumers? Organised Action and the Case of Fair Trade Coffee." Sociological Research Online 12, no. 3 (May 2007): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1536.
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This article brings together research on political consumerism, social movements and markets to analyse the phenomenon of fair trade coffee. It does this to demonstrate the influence of organised consumers in shaping markets, and to show that people are not inevitably individualised and seduced by the power of corporate marketing. The case of fair trade coffee is used because of the pivotal role of coffee in the global economy. ‘Organised consumers’ are treated as comprised of three inter-connecting, fluid, components: an activist core, responsible for building the campaign and its alternative trade networks; a widely dispersed alliance of civil society and social movement organisations, articulating the connections between trade justice, human rights and wellbeing; and an ‘outer edge’ of quasi-organised consumers acting as part of a largely imagined group by using economic capital to express cultural and political values. Despite saturated markets, and oligopoly among suppliers in a highly rationalised supply chain, such consumer movements have been instrumental in an emerging new trade paradigm, which has influenced the business and product strategies of trans-national corporations. The creation, and rising sales, of Fair Trade products are evidence of the role of consumers as sceptical actors, challenging consumerism and the ethics of a supply chain which impoverishes coffee farmers. Although the future trajectories of fair trade campaigns and products are uncertain, their growth indicates that people continue to draw on sources of social identity beyond that of ‘consumer’.
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Hilton, Matthew. "The Consumer Movement and Civil Society in Malaysia." International Review of Social History 52, no. 3 (November 21, 2007): 373–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859007003045.
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This paper examines the consumer movement in Malaysia, especially the Consumers' Association of Penang and the Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations. It traces their history from the late 1960s, through a period of rapid social and economic change associated with the New Economic Policy of the 1970s and 1980s. Partly because of the absence of other NGOs in Malaysia (due to government clampdowns on civil society), consumer groups were able to take a prominent position and to develop socio-political campaigns on behalf of the poor and the disadvantaged. This proved an inspiration to consumer organizing globally, especially in the developed world, but it is not clear that consumerism as a social movement can be sustained. Since the mid-1980s, other NGOs have emerged, eclipsing the influence of consumerism, and promoting a human rights agenda which has overtaken the politics of consumption as the dominant oppositional rhetoric of non-governmental groups.
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Jessup, Eric, and Ryan Herrington. "Estimating the Impact of Seasonal Truck Shortages on the Movement of Time-Sensitive, Perishable Products." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1906, no. 1 (January 2005): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105190600110.
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This research focuses on the frequent and persistent problem of truck shortages for time-sensitive, perishable produce shipment out of the Pacific Northwest. Washington State is the number one apple-producing state in the United States, accounting for more than 2.7 million tons of apples per year valued in excess of $1 billion. However, without timely and accessible transportation to move the product from production to the consumer's table, the value to apple producers and the state's economy diminishes rapidly. This research aims to identify and quantify the change in total transportation cost that occurs as a result of seasonal truck shortages and associated rate increases and to provide an avenue for evaluating changes in specific destination markets, modal changes, and market competitiveness. A cost-minimizing optimization model is used to represent apple shipments from 29 producing supply points to 16 domestic markets and three international export markets over four seasons for two modes (truck and rail). Total transportation costs increase nearly $12 million as a result of truck shortages, from $245.6 million without shortages to $257.5 million under the current seasonal situation. Overall (across all seasons), the export markets of Nogales, Arizona; McAllen, Texas; and the Port of Seattle, Washington, are most affected by the truck shortages, followed by domestic markets near Seattle and San Francisco, California. The large markets of New York City, New York, and Los Angeles, California also experience relatively large increases in transportation cost per ton mile.
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Sokołowska, Dorota. "Market Basket Analysis as a Support Tool for The Management of Public Transport." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 37, no. 1 (August 8, 2014): 219–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2014-0026.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to characterize a non-standard use of the method of market basket analysis in one of the areas of economy, i.e. public transport. Generally, one of the aims of the market basket analysis method is associating the consumer's market basket – in the case of public transport this being the choice of bus stops in the city area made by passengers. Owing to a new, practical use of this method, it was possible to build an efficient model characterizing the movement of flows of public transport passengers, and assess the degree of transferring (changing lines), thus making it possible to adapt the routes of buses to the needs of people using this particular means of transport, as well as to plot new communication lines. The data analysis was performed using the Statistica statistical package and its SAL application, i.e. the algorithms used in Data Mining.
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Möckel, Benjamin. "Consuming Anti-Consumerism: The German Fairtrade Movement and the Ambivalent Legacy of ‘1968’." Contemporary European History 28, no. 4 (October 31, 2019): 550–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777319000262.
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AbstractThe article explores the influence of ‘1968’ on the West German fair trade movement. It argues that 1968 constituted an ambivalent legacy for the perception of mass consumerism: while the 1960s student movement radically criticised modern consumer society, it also put new emphasis on consumer products as markers of individual identity. The article analyses this relationship by focusing on the design, representation and advertising of fair trade products by the German fair trade organation GEPA. The first two case studies examine the politicisation of fair trade products in its early campaigns in the 1970s and the subsequent attempts to use everyday products like coffee, tea and honey to educate consumers about their individual lifestyles. The third case study looks at the GEPA's first mail-order catalogues and asks how the GEPA tried to transform an icon of modern mass consumerism into a tool to communicate its fair trade approach.
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Rodwin, Marc A. "Patient Accountability and Quality of Care: Lessons From Medical Consumerism and the Patients’ Rights, Women’s Health and Disability Rights Movements." American Journal of Law & Medicine 20, no. 1-2 (1994): 147–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s009885880000647x.
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This article contrasts the prevailing model for assessing and improving medical care—the quality of care paradigm—with an alternative approach—the patient accountability paradigm. The first approach is technocratic: it measures and promotes the quality of medical care through technical and objective means. It relies on outside experts, analysis of data and protocols, and impersonal judgements of professionals to guide decisions. The second approach guides physicians and providers and subjects them to patient control. It enlists the participation of patients and consumers to evaluate and change the medical care system and to promote the rights and choices of patients and consumers. The strengths and limitations of the patient accountability approach are illustrated by four movements: 1) the patients’ rights movement; 2) medical consumerism; 3) the women’s health movement; and 4) the disability rights movement.
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Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. "Challenging the Agrarian Imaginary: Farmworker-Led Food Movements and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice." Human Geography 7, no. 1 (March 2014): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861400700107.
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This article addresses the need for more engagement between the alternative food movement and the food labor movement in the United States. Drawing on the notion of agrarian imaginary, I argue for the need to break down divides between producer and consumer, rural and urban, and individual and community based approaches to changing the food system. I contend that farmworker-led consumer-based campaigns and solidarity movements, such as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) current Campaign for Fair Food, and The United Farmworkers’ historical grape boycotts, successfully work to challenge this imaginary, drawing consumers into movement-based actions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with farmworkers and farmworker advocates in California and Florida, this research illustrates the possibilities for alternative food movement advocates and coalitions to build upon farmworker-led campaigns and embrace workers as leaders.
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Pllana, Mustafe, and Shyhrete Kukaj. "Protection of Consumer Rights." International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management 5, no. 2 (April 2016): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsem.2016040105.
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At the end of Ninteenth century and beginning of Twentieth entry starts a movement with name consumerism. The consumerists' movement, (in domain of politics) is consumer protection which seeks to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards. Consumer protection as it is known today has its roots in the time of ancient civilizations. At the beginning of Twenty first century the consumer protection moves forward. EU is well known for ten fundamental principles of consumer protection. To become part of the European Union, Kosovo institutions are obliged to enact legislation and implement policies in accordance with EU standards. Regarding this has become a research haw is advanced legislation and institutions for consumer protection and what is the program for consumer protection. In the survey are included 150 respondents in 5 major centers of Kosovo. Collected data are processed in SPSS, and findings will be treated in this paper.
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Davari, Arezoo, Pramod Iyer, and Francisco Guzmán. "Determinants of brand resurrection movements." European Journal of Marketing 51, no. 11/12 (November 14, 2017): 1896–917. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-02-2016-0096.
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Purpose There is a growing trend of brand resurrections that are driven by consumer power. Millennials play a critical role in initiating most of these brand resurrection movements using social media. This study aims to explore the factors that drive consumers’ participation in brand resurrection movements – an outcome of brand cocreation. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected using self-administered survey. This study uses the partial least squares-structural equation modeling to empirically examine the factors that motivate consumers to participate in brand resurrection movements. Findings The results indicate that consumers’ beliefs about the functional and value-expressive utilities, and their judgments of the perceived brand superiority of the defunct brand are significantly associated with brand resurrection movements. Nostalgia moderates the relationship between social-adjustive utility and brand resurrection movement, which shows that consumers’ social-adjustive utility becomes relevant when triggered with a strong sense of the past. Research limitations/implications From a theoretical perspective, this study contributes to literature on reviving defunct brands. This study also identifies additional factors that determine the success of brands that are being relaunched. Practical implications From a managerial perspective, the study provides insights into when and how organizations can consider bringing back defunct brands. Future studies should introduce additional variables to the model such as product category involvement that may be associated with consumers’ willingness to bring back defunct brands. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first of its kind that empirically examines the motivations behind consumer participation in bringing back defunct brands. The importance of this study is highlighted in the fact that several defunct brands are being revived by organizations due to consumer-brand co-creation movements.
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GILLEARD, CHRIS, and PAUL HIGGS. "Old people as users and consumers of healthcare: a third age rhetoric for a fourth age reality?" Ageing and Society 18, no. 2 (March 1998): 233–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x98006904.
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This paper is concerned with the emergence of consumerism as a dominant theme in the culture surrounding the organisation and provision of welfare in contemporary societies. In it we address the dilemmas produced by a consumerist discourse for older people's healthcare, dilemmas which may be seen as the conflicting representations of third age and fourth age reality. We begin by reviewing the appearance of consumerism in the recent history of the British healthcare system, relating it to the various reforms of healthcare over the last two decades and the more general development of consumerism as a cultural phenomenon of the post World War II era. The emergence of consumer culture, we argue, is both a central theme in post-modernist discourse and a key element in the political economy of the New Right. After examining criticisms of post-modernist representational politics, the limitations of consumerism and the privileged position given to choice and agency within consumerist society, we consider the relevance of such critical perspectives in judging the significance of the user/consumer movement in the lives of retired people.
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Wehman, Paul, and John Kregel. "At the Crossroads: Supported Employment a Decade Later." Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps 20, no. 4 (December 1995): 286–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154079699602000405.
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Supported employment has grown rapidly within the past decade, fueled by the consumer empowerment and inclusion movements. The program has resulted in thousands of people with severe disabilities entering the labor force for the first time. Many consumers have expanded their vocational expectations, and employers have developed a new appreciation of the potential contribution individuals with disabilities can make to the workforce. Unfortunately, despite these dramatic gains, the supported employment movement appears to have lost much of its early momentum and is increasingly at a crossroads. This article addresses major challenges that consumers and professionals alike must face. Conversion of day programs to integrated work options, expansion of program capacity, the need to insure consumer choice and self-determination, and the achievement of meaningful employment outcomes in a highly competitive economy are among the challenges that those dedicated to the supported employment movement must solve in the years ahead. Specific recommendations are offered to meet each challenge. Ultimately, the way to expand and reenergize the supported employment initiative will be to educate and empower more consumers and families.
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Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie. "From Consumerism to the Empowerment of Consumers: The Case of Consumer Oriented Movements in France." Sustainability 2, no. 7 (June 29, 2010): 1849–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su2071849.
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Robins, Jonathan E. "Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber: E. D. Morel and the Problem of Ethical Consumption." Comparative Studies in Society and History 54, no. 3 (July 2012): 592–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417512000242.
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AbstractOver the last two decades, consumption, consumerism, and the idea of consumer agency have attracted a great deal attention from scholars across a number of disciplines. Among historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been identified as a crucial period for consumption, one in which consumers emerged as an influential group of political, economic, and social agents. Historians of the English-speaking world have advanced bold claims about the prominence and impact of consumers during this period. Consumer movements were conspicuously absent in two major scandals of the early twentieth century, however. This article uses these commodity-centered cases—of rubber in the Congo Free State, and cocoa in the Portuguese colonies of São Tomé and Príncipe—to question the salience of “consumerism” in turn-of-the-century political thought. By tracing the career of British journalist and humanitarian activist E. D. Morel through the “red rubber” and “slave cocoa” scandals, the article demonstrates that consumers were only one of many influences along the commodity chain of production and consumption.
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JIANG, Heng, and Chunlu LIU. "IDENTIFYING DETERMINANTS OF DEMAND FOR CONSTRUCTION USING AN ECONOMETRIC APPROACH." International Journal of Strategic Property Management 19, no. 4 (December 23, 2015): 346–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648715x.2015.1072856.
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Economic variation and its effects on construction demand have received a great deal of attention in construction economics studies. An understanding of future trends in demand for construction could influence investment strategies for a variety of parties, including construction developers, suppliers, property investors and financial institutions. This paper derives the determinants of demand for construction in Australia using an econometric approach to identify and evaluate economic indicators that affect construction demand. The forecasting contribution of different determinants of economic indicators and their categories to the demand for construction are further estimated. The results of this empirical study suggest that changes in consumer's expectation, income and production, and demography and labour force are closely correlated with the movement of construction demand; and 14 economic indicators are identified as the determinants for construction demand. It was found that the changes in construction price, national income, size of population, unemployment rate, value or export, household expenditure and interest rates play key roles in explaining future variations in the demand for construction in Australia. Some “popular” macroeconomic indicators, such as GDP, established house price and bank loans produced inconclusive results.
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Khai, Huynh Viet. "Assessing Consumer Preferences for Organic Vegetables: A Case Study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam." Information Management and Business Review 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2015): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v7i1.1137.
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An increase in consumer’s demand for environmental and health quality has generated the movement of organic agriculture in terms of high-value products. Understanding consumer preferences is very necessary and important for policy-makers to design appropriate policies promoting and developing organic agriculture. This study employed a dichotomous choice contingent valuation model to analyze consumer’s willingness to pay for organic vegetables in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Results indicated that the majority of consumers were interested in organically grown products and willing to pay an average price premium of 59% for organic vegetables. Consumers concerned about health and food safety were more likely to purchase and those who have high household income and education also accepted to buy organic vegetables with higher price than conventional ones.
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Bylok, Felicjan. "Intricacies of modern consumption: Consumerism vs. deconsumption." Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym 20, no. 8 (March 1, 2017): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.20.8.06.
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The subject of considerations in the paper is a reflection on modern consumption. The author, in search of an answer to the question what main orientations determine consumer behaviour in the market, formulates the hypothesis that deconsumption may become a permanent trend in the development of modern consumption. In order to verify this hypothesis, consumerism along with its main styles and deconsumption as a response to excessive consumption are analysed. The author presents forms of deconsumption, i.e. sustainable consumption, green consumerism, ethical consumption, anti-consumption and consumer movements promoting such forms of consumption. In the conclusions, he points to the development potential of deconsumption manifested in a growing number of consumers who are changing their consumption habits into more socially and environmentally friendly ones.
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Hilton, Matthew. "THE DEATH OF A CONSUMER SOCIETY." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 18 (November 10, 2008): 211–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440108000716.
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ABSTRACTThis paper argues that the meaning of consumer society has changed over the last half century, principally through the prioritisation of choice over access. It does this through an examination of the global consumer movement and a consideration of its successes and failures. It demonstrates that through the movement's own tactics, and the defeats it suffered by opponents of regulation, its earlier emphasis on the right of consumers to enjoy basic needs has given way to a greater focus on choice. Consequently, the changing fortunes of consumer activism around the world both reflect and explain the reorientation of global consumer society over the last few decades.
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McLean, Athena Helen. "From Ex-Patient Alternatives to Consumer Options: Consequences of Consumerism for Psychiatric Consumers and the Ex-Patient Movement." International Journal of Health Services 30, no. 4 (October 2000): 821–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/3tyx-vrrk-xkha-vb1q.
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Valor, Carmen, Estela M. Díaz, and Amparo Merino. "The Discourse of the Consumer Resistance Movement." Journal of Macromarketing 37, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 72–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0276146715627851.
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Little work has been done on understanding the ways in which resistant consumers interpret the causes and responsible agents for structures of domination. Drawing on collective action frames, we examine how a consumer resistance movement defines both its antagonists (adversarial framing) and its advocacy strategies for response (prognostic framing). Discourses of resistant consumers are analyzed through the lens of power, since to explore these frames is also to study the question of who is perceived as the locus of power and how power/resistance is exercised to achieve the movement’s goals. A kaleidoscopic framing emerges that reveals multiple points and forms of resistance. To counteract the underlying attribution of responsibility (the materialistic ideology dominant in Western societies), consumers bring into play a repertoire of actions that enable them to construct both themselves and others as ethical persons. Based on these findings the research contributes to the literature on consumer resistance by broadening the most commonly held vision of power, namely, power as domination and control possessed by distinctly identifiable agents. This study, by contrast, provides evidence of discourses that assume power is exercised in a reticular, shifting, and productive manner, a vision of power that corresponds closely to that articulated in the work of Foucault and Arendt. An emphasis on this perception of power relationships in the realm of consumer resistance extends and enriches understanding of a movement’s dynamics, whilst also enhancing the movement’s capacity to change the materialistic ideology that it refuses to accept.
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Padhy, Prabir Chandra, and Ashiss Kumar Mishra. "Green Consumerism: Catalyst for Environmental Marketing." Asia Pacific Journal of Energy and Environment 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/apjee.v5i2.252.
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In 21st century race towards industrialization is fast & furious. Due to the Industrial movements natural environment is heavily influenced. Environmental marketing is one best possible way to protect the environment. Both the organizations & consumers have changed their mind to address this issue. Green consumerism has taken the role of catalyst for environmental marketing. Aim of this paper to analyze the consumer behavior towards environmental marketing. This article also establishes the relationship between consumer behavior and purchasing decision of the customer on the green marketing ground. This research paper highlights the cause behind environmental marketing along with the initiative taken by the industries to promote environmental marketing.
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Chatzidakis, Andreas, Pauline Maclaran, and Rohit Varman. "The Regeneration of Consumer Movement Solidarity." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 2 (February 22, 2021): 289–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucab007.
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Abstract Consumer research has focused on the various resources and tactics that help movements achieve a range of institutional and marketplace changes. Yet, little attention has been paid to the persistence of movement solidarity, in particular its regeneration, despite a range of threats to it. Our research unpacks mechanisms that help consumer movement solidarity to overcome threats. Drawing on a 6-year ethnographic study of consumer movements in Exarcheia, a neighborhood in central Athens, Greece, we find that consumer movement solidarity persists despite a cataclysmic economic crisis that undermines their prevalent ideology and the emotional fatigue, that is, common in such movements. Three key mechanisms serve to overcome these threats: performative staging of collectivism, temporal tactics, and the emplacement of counter-sites. Overall, our study contributes to consumer research by illuminating how threats to solidarity are overcome by specific internal mechanisms that enable the regeneration of consumer movement solidarity.
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Mazurek, Malgorzata, and Matthew Hilton. "Consumerism, Solidarity and Communism: Consumer Protection and the Consumer Movement in Poland." Journal of Contemporary History 42, no. 2 (April 2007): 315–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009407075553.
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Speed, Ewen. "Irish Mental Health Social Movements: A Consideration of Movement Habitus." Irish Journal of Sociology 11, no. 1 (May 2002): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160350201100104.
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There has been a lack of any concerted mental health service users‘ movement within the Republic of Ireland. Mental health service users’ movements elsewhere have a marked orientation towards strategies of empowerment and the provision of peer advocacy and support for mental health service users. Two potential user habituses (drawn from the literature) are expounded and discussed, in a context of transformations they have effected in the mental health field. Through an analysis of Department of Health and Children literature and literature offered by mental health service user groups (such as Schizophrenia Ireland and AWARE) service user habitus in Ireland are delineated and explored. A comparison between the habitus drawn from international literature and the Irish literature illustrates that the dominant Irish mental health social movement habitus is a consumer habitus. This analysis demonstrates that Irish governmental psychiatric policy is driven by a consumer model that in turn is adopted by mental health social movement organisations, resulting in a dominant consumer habitus.
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Rodriguez, Jason. "The US Minimalist Movement: Radical Political Practice?" Review of Radical Political Economics 50, no. 2 (January 20, 2017): 286–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0486613416665832.
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The US minimalist movement represents an increasingly popular critical reflection on the ills of consumerism and an effort to forge new ways of living amidst consumer capitalism. In the face of escalating consumption, debt, and environmental degradation, minimalists’ calls for rethinking “needs” is timely and highlights important problems that typify US capitalism. This article explores minimalists’ social-theoretical insights and resistance to consumerism considering whether, and to what extent, minimalism represents a radical, anti-capitalist movement.
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HILTON, MATTHEW. "THE FEMALE CONSUMER AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN." Historical Journal 45, no. 1 (March 2002): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x01002266.
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This article traces the history of women's participation in consumer politics and the gendering of the consumer in twentieth-century Britain. It does so by focusing on two important moments in the official discussion of the consumer interest: the Consumers' Council of the First World War and the Molony Committee on Consumer Protection, 1959–1962. It argues that notions of consumer-citizenship have been varied and forever in flux and that the involvement of women in consumer issues within the state apparatus has always been at once both disputed and encouraged. Within this complex history, however, a number of discernible trends are apparent. In the first half of the twentieth century, consumer issues were articulated by women's organizations on the political left and the consumer was considered largely a working-class housewife within official consumer politics. By mid-century, an increasingly dominant view of the consumer was that of the middle-class housewife, and a host of socially conservative women's groups came to speak for the consumer. By the 1950s, while the definition of the consumer remained contested, it had increasingly become a gender-neutral category, as business groups defined consumer interests in government committees and an emerging affluent consumer movement inscribed consumerism with the values of a male professional class.
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Shaw, Ian, and Alan Aldridge. "Consumerism, Health and Social Order." Social Policy and Society 2, no. 1 (January 2003): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147474640300109x.
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The concept of consumerism has multiple meanings, many of which are heavily value-laden; similarly, there are conflicting stereotypes of ‘the consumer’. After exploring the key dimensions of debates about consumerism and the consumer, this paper addresses some paradoxical consequences of the discourse of consumer empowerment in the field of health promotion and specifically in the ‘new public health’ movement.
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Krasnova, M. V., and K. A. Nefedova. "FORMATION OF CONSUMER PREFERENCES USING NEUROMARKETING TOOLS." Scientific Review: Theory and Practice 10, no. 9 (September 30, 2020): 2062–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.35679/2226-0226-2020-10-9-2062-2073.
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In this article, we say that marketing and advertising professionals have been aware of the limitations in traditional market research methods for decades, but only in recent years has science allowed the development of a more effective mechanism by which consumers’ thoughts can be deciphered and this is neuromarketing. Building an effective and successful communication policy through the use of a variety of technologies and promotion methods is one of the primary tasks of the effective functioning and development of the company in the market, as well as increasing its competitiveness. For this, in parallel with measurements of electroencephalography, magnetic resonance imaging, brain scanners, galvanic skin response, an eye-tracking device is used, which allows one to accurately identify a stimulus that provides information about the consumer’s response to various commercial messages. Eye-tracking technology is that the respondent is shown a visual stimulus (static or dynamic), while a special device records the trajectory and metrics of the pupil movement. The respondent’s pupil is illuminated with infrared rays, while the trajectory of its movement is continuously recorded by several high-precision infrared cameras. The coordinates of the movement of the pupil are recorded in the database, subsequently the data is analyzed and qualitative and quantitative reports are drawn up. This tool is used to analyze and understand the reaction of people to products and promotions, which allows you to increase the effectiveness of product promotion to make them more effective. The purpose of this article is to show the role that eye-tracking plays in the correct understanding of consumer needs, words and emotions. The main advantage of eye-tracking is the impartiality of the tested respondents, since the equipment used in this technology records the natural reactions of a person (by studying the movement and reaction of the pupil), which cannot be imitated. The main tool for applying the technology is the eye-tracker device, which recognizes and records pupil positions and eye movements.
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Gupta, Joyeeta. "Consumerism: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 11, no. 2 (April 1986): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090919860207.
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Consumer movement in our country is gaining momentum in the recent past. A number of consumer centres have come up all over the country, mostly educationoriented while some are action-based. Joyeeta Gupta describes these and draws the implications of the rising consumer awareness for the managers, for the policy-makers, and for the consumers themselves.
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Bharadwaj, Sundar G., P. N. Thirunarayana, and P. Rajan Varadarajan. "Attitudes towards Marketing Practices, Consumerism and Government Regulations: An Exploratory Survey of Consumers in India." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 16, no. 1 (January 1991): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090919910102.
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The myriad facets of consumerism have been examined by several authors during the last two decades in the context of industrialized nations. However, there is a dearth of research on consumerism in reference to developing nations. Against this background, the study by Bharadwaj, Thirunarayana and Varadarajan assumes importance as it focuses on consumer attitudes towards marketing practices, consumerism and government regulations in a developing country — India. The results of the study indicate a high level of consumer skepticism with the operating philosophy of businesses, dissatisfaction with prevailing market practices, and support for the consumerism movement.
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Jiao, Jing, Louise Riotte-Lambert, Sergei S. Pilyugin, Michael A. Gil, and Craig W. Osenberg. "Mobility and its sensitivity to fitness differences determine consumer–resource distributions." Royal Society Open Science 7, no. 6 (June 2020): 200247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200247.
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An animal's movement rate (mobility) and its ability to perceive fitness gradients (fitness sensitivity) determine how well it can exploit resources. Previous models have examined mobility and fitness sensitivity separately and found that mobility, modelled as random movement, prevents animals from staying in high-quality patches, leading to a departure from an ideal free distribution (IFD). However, empirical work shows that animals with higher mobility can more effectively collect environmental information and better sense patch quality, especially when the environment is frequently changed by human activities. Here, we model, for the first time, this positive correlation between mobility and fitness sensitivity and measure its consequences for the populations of a consumer and its resource. In the absence of consumer demography, mobility alone had no effect on system equilibria, but a positive correlation between mobility and fitness sensitivity could produce an IFD. In the presence of consumer demography, lower levels of mobility prevented the system from approaching an IFD due to the mixing of consumers between patches. However, when positively correlated with fitness sensitivity, high mobility led to an IFD. Our study demonstrates that the expected covariation of animal movement attributes can drive broadly theorized consumer–resource patterns across space and time and could underlie the role of consumers in driving spatial heterogeneity in resource abundance.
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Scholz, Brett, Julia Bocking, Peter Hedt, Vinh N. Lu, and Brenda Happell. "‘Not in the room, but the doctors were’: an Australian story-completion study about consumer representation." Health Promotion International 35, no. 4 (July 20, 2019): 752–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz070.
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Abstract Current mental health policy requires consumer involvement in all levels of health service management (i.e. planning, implementation, delivery and evaluation). However, current models often limit consumers to ‘representation’ roles that are criticized for silencing consumer views. This study compares understandings of consumer representatives’ and health professionals’ participation in decision-making processes in the mental health sector in Australia. Story completion methods were employed, with 34 participants (21 consumers, 8 health professionals and 5 people identifying both as consumer and health professional) completing a story stem about either a consumer representative or a health professional changing a committee meeting agenda. Using a thematic approach, three overarching themes were developed: how consumer representative roles remain unvalued, how such lack of value translates to not achieving co-production and how consumer representative roles can be better supported through allyship or subversion against organizational cultural norms. Findings suggest that organizational cultural norms in health settings need to be more inclusive of consumers to maximize the benefits of partnerships and fulfil policy expectations. Two methods for greater empowerment of consumers working in mental health are through allyship with non-consumer health professionals who support the goals of the consumer movement, and subversion of current practices.
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Suhardi, N. I., and U. Khairuddin. "Development of Consumers Management System via Face Classification." MEKATRONIKA 2, no. 2 (December 14, 2020): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15282/mekatronika.v2i2.6750.
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To improve consumer experience and overall retail management, physical retailers may adapt consumer behaviour management systems using artificial intelligence to imitate the capability of consumer behaviour tracking in online shopping into physical retail. The proposed consumer behaviour management system consists of two parts - face recognition and consumer tracking at an area of interest. Both will be combined to produce a summary of individual customer’s visits to the shop. This information can be used to improve consumers experience and optimize retailer’s management. The developed system can track consumers’ movement inside the shop and summarize their whereabouts according to areas of interest. The face classification system via FaceNet has around 56.67% accuracy with 27.89% mean confidence. The tracking performance shows a consistent performance with a total standard deviation of 4.36 seconds. With the consumers’ analysis graph, retailers may pinpoint which area that was always frequented by their customers and take suitable actions with that information
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Wang, Wei, and Gang Li. "A Theoretical Analysis of the Pricing and Advertising Strategies with Lévy-Walking Consumers." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 16, no. 6 (August 27, 2021): 2129–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer16060119.
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The pervasive adoption of mobile devices and proximity technologies enables firms to trace consumers’ trajectories and locations. This connects firms’ marketing and operations strategies more tightly with consumer mobility. In this paper, we propose a novel analytical model to examine the economic effects of consumer mobility on pricing and advertising strategies by incorporating consumers’ Lévy-walking behavior into advertising economics models. We ascertain the convergent effect of consumer mobility, i.e., consumers’ convergence to a firm leads to higher product price and advertising level. Meanwhile, it improves social welfare by increasing firm profit and consumer surplus. More interestingly, we find that consumers’ average movement distance (AMD) has opposing influences in pricing and advertising strategies. Specifically, longer AMD strengthens the convergent effect on advertising strategy but weakens that on pricing strategy. Finally, we also conduct a numerical analysis to uncover the impacts of the presence of proximity technologies on advertising outcomes. The results of this paper provide advisable guidance to firms on how to craft and adjust pricing and advertising strategies in accordance to consumer mobility. Moreover, the results present insights on welfare implications of informative advertising from the perspective of consumer mobility.
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Shidarta, Shidarta, and Stefan Koos. "INTRODUCTION TO A SOCIAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH IN THE INDONESIAN CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW." Veritas et Justitia 5, no. 1 (June 26, 2019): 49–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.25123/vej.3292.
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This legal study, using a social-functional approach, underscores the importance of developing a viable social consumer protection system. Through it the government should promote a more effective consumer protection system in which any obstacle hampering consumer’s ability to obtain information necessary to make rational choices can be prevented. In short, a system protecting consumer’s right to obtain information. In this context, business enterprises are still expected to participate and support consumer protection movements at the national as well as regional level in which the end goal is to develop a fair business competition climate.
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N A, Krishnamurthi, and Suresh K M. "Evaluation of consumer protection council with special reference to erode dirstrict." Journal of Management and Science 1, no. 2 (June 30, 2014): 165–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.2012.18.
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India is a vast country where a majority of consumers are poor, helpless and disorganized. Further, the Market in India is generally a sellers Market and it is very easy to cheat the innocent consumers. It is now realized that a common consumer is neither knowledgeable nor well-informed. He/she needs support andprotection from the unscrupulous seller. A common consumer is not in a position to approach a civil court.Quick, cheap and speedy justice to his/her complaints is required. The biggest help in this direction has come from the Government. The Central Government enacted a Law known as ―The Consumer protection Act, 1986‖.Consumer protection council is a social movement which seeks to protect and argument the rights of the consumer in relation to the producers.
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Parigi, Paolo, and Rachel Gong. "From grassroots to digital ties: A case study of a political consumerism movement." Journal of Consumer Culture 14, no. 2 (June 9, 2014): 236–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540514526280.
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New grassroots organizations that target ethical consumer choices and behavior represent a departure from traditional social movement organizations. In this article, we study the activists of one of these organizations and show that social network ties formed mainly online greatly reinforce commitment toward the goals of the movement. We suggest that online ties, that is, digital ties, are important for political consumerism movements because they create audiences for private actions. It is because of the presence of these audiences that the individual participants can reinterpret their actions into public ones. We used an online survey to collect data on the users of the Transition US social website on Ning.com. Over half of the respondents have experiences with political activism. However, their responses indicate that they are dissatisfied with traditional means of political participation (e.g. rallies) and prefer non-contentious collective actions (e.g. local gardening). Respondents perceive community organizing to be the most effective way to bring about social change, deprioritizing connections to local government. Furthermore, respondents who formed digital ties with other activists were significantly more likely than respondents who had no ties with other activists to adopt consumer changes consistent with the goals of the movement. We interpreted this finding as an indicator that digital ties share some of the characteristics of strong ties, and we explored this similarity in this article.
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Lu, Meng, Yang Qiang, Du Jiangang, and Dong Zerui. "The impact of the matching of innovative product category and presentation order on consumer’s purchasing intention." Journal of Contemporary Marketing Science 2, no. 3 (December 17, 2019): 323–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcmars-08-2019-0028.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction effect of innovative product category and presentation order on consumer consumer’s purchasing intention and the mediating role of perceived novelty and risk perception. Design/methodology/approach The authors examined the hypotheses in three experiment studies. In Study 1, the authors primed innovative product category and presentation order on consumer consumer’s purchasing intention. In Study 2, the authors measured the mediating role of perceived novelty and risk perception. In Study 3, they validated the moderating effect of picture and text consistency on the improvement of purchase preference. Findings The results reveal that RNP/INP and presentation order (from whole to part/from part to whole) could enhance consumers’ purchase intention and verify the mediating role of perceived novelty and risk perception, based on which a complete internal mechanism model is constructed. The third experiment shows the moderating effect of picture and text consistency on the improvement of purchase preference by matching the category and presentation order of innovative products. Originality/value Prior literature on the thinking mode of holistic and partial processing has been mostly applied to the cognitive field of reading and text labeling. In this study, using the holistic (local) processing thinking model and anchoring theory, eye movement experiments and situational experiments, the audience’s analysis framework of information processing mechanism is constructed. The unique phenomenon of product category and overall (local) presentation order coexisting in innovative product advertisement is considered comprehensively.
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Boros, Ildikó Fruzsina, László Sipos, and Attila Gere. "Eye-tracking analysis of leafy vegetables." Review on Agriculture and Rural Development 6, no. 1-2 (July 18, 2018): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/rard.2017.1-2.32-37.
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There is a great supply of leafy vegetables on the market; hence capturing consumer’s attention (and decision) is critically important. Several scientific publications deal with consumer choices and the newest technology to capture consumer attention is eye-tracking. Eye-trackers are commonly used in Western Europe and Asia also, where it is an important and widely-used tool during product developments and the creation of marketing strategies. In Hungary, there are only a few publications about eye-tracking applications in vegetable growing and food industry. In our research, photographs about sorrel, lamb lettuce, spinach, leaf lettuce and dandelion leafs were analysed by eye-tracking technology and the eye movements of the participants during their decision making process of leafy vegetables were captured and evaluated. The eye-tracking analyses were carried out in the Sensory Laboratory of the Faculty of Food Sciences of Szent István University, using a Tobii X2-60 eye-tracker and Tobii Studio (version 3.0.5, Tobii Technology AB, Sweden) software. We aimed to answer the following research questions: Are there any connections between the eye movements of participants and their decisions? What amount of visual attention can be registered during the decision making process? Furthermore, the following metrics were measured and evaluated: fixation durations on the leafy vegetables, number of returns to products, pathways of visual attention, time until the final decision making and motivation of their final decisions. Measurement of the subconscious consumer decision making processes is way easier using eye-trackers compared to the traditional questionnaire-based methods, because it is hard or impossible to control our eye movements. Eye-tracking can be used successfully for understanding the expectations and decisions of the consumers.
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Hendarto, Kresno Agus, Basu Swastha Dharmmesta, B. M. Purwanto, and Moira M. M. Moeliono. "Analyzing consumer participation in boycott movement using the analytical hierarchy process." Journal of Islamic Marketing 9, no. 4 (November 12, 2018): 698–726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jima-11-2016-0086.
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PurposesThis study aims to investigate what consumer’s preference, as group members, to participate in boycott movement in Indonesia.Design/methodology/approachA mix method, qualitative (the first phase) and quantitative (the second phase), approach is used. The first phase used secondary data from media reporting interconnected themes on boycott, and the result of which was analyzed using content analysis method. Based on the results of the first phase, the authors continue with the second phase. The second phase used primary data from survey. The data were analyzed using analytical hierarchy process method.FindingsThe results showed that the primary target of boycott is the firm. The primary objective of boycott is the changing in firms’ behavior (instrumental), and the primary root cause of boycott is economy.Originality ValueThe study contributes to improve the authors’ knowledge about consumers’ preference, as group members, in their attempt to get involved in boycott movement. From the perspective of reference group theory, the study shows that consumers always compare what they do to what their groups do. Consumers also tend to be willingly persuaded if an opinion has been adopted by a group of preferred people or when they are the members. From the perspective of expectancy-value theory, the decision to present particular behaviors is the results of rational process directed to a particular objective. Behavior chosen is considered, consequences and results of an action are evaluated, and the decision is made whether or not to take any action.
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Moran, G. S. "The mental health consumer movement and peer providers in Israel." Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 27, no. 5 (April 16, 2018): 420–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2045796018000173.
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Self-help peer-support groups in Israel emerged in the 1980s and, over time, dynamically interacted and co-developed with the statutory mental health (MH) system. In this editorial, I outline historical milestones of how the evolution of the Israeli mental health system was influenced by the consumer movement. A brief depiction of the consumer movement history. At first, consumers operated outside of the mainstream MH system. Gradually, consumer groups and institutional personnel joined efforts towards community integration and enhancement of quality of life, pushing forward a person-centered recovery orientation. In turn, some administrators and key stakeholders in rehabilitation community services grew to value the impact of knowledge-by-experience in contemporary mental health care. In this context, over the past decade, peer roles were developed in the mental health system, including consumer-providers in community services and peer specialists in inpatient psychiatric hospitals. The insertion of peer roles into the mainstream MH system is far-reaching, including the placement of a peer-project coordinator within the ministry of health. I describe the unique contribution of peers, as experts-by-experience, to mainstream professional knowledge and practice. I also highlight the potential challenges involved when peer models of care are added to traditional medical models of care. The Israeli case demonstrates how the consumer movement can play an active role in MH systems and be acknowledged and recognised as a partner for changing policy, practice and reshaping formal institutions. In addition, they play a vital role in the development of peer-support services.
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Forno, Francesca, and Paolo R. Graziano. "Sustainable community movement organisations." Journal of Consumer Culture 14, no. 2 (March 20, 2014): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540514526225.
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In the current economic crisis, social movements are simultaneously facing two types of challenges: first, they are confronting institutions which are less able (or willing) to mediate new demands for social justice and equity emerging from various sectors of society, and second, given the highly individualised structure of contemporary society, they are also experiencing difficulties in building bonds of solidarity and cooperation among people, bonds which are a fundamental resource for collective action. It is in this context that protests waves, which may be very relevant, are in fact often short-lived, and it is in this context that we detect the rise and consolidation of new mutualistic and cooperative experiences within which (similarly to the past) new ties and frames for collective action are created. This article discusses and analyses social movement organisations which focus on both the intensification of economic problems and the difficulties of rebuilding social bonds and solidarity within society, emphasising solidarity and the use of ‘alternative’ forms of consumption as means to re-embed the economic system within social relations, starting from the local level. While discussing what is new and/or what has been renewed in new Sustainable Community Movement Organisations, the article will develop an analytical framework which will combine social movements and political consumerism theories by focusing on two basic dimensions: consumer culture and identity and organisational resources and repertoire of action.
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Miller, Kevin B., James O. Eckberg, Eric A. Decker, and Christopher P. F. Marinangeli. "Role of Food Industry in Promoting Healthy and Sustainable Diets." Nutrients 13, no. 8 (August 10, 2021): 2740. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13082740.
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Sustainable food systems are often defined by greenhouse gases, land use, effects on biodiversity, and water use. However, this approach does not recognize the reason food is produced—the provision of nutrients. Recently, the relationship between diets and sustainability has been recognized. Most accepted models of ‘sustainable diets’ focus on four domains: public health, the environment, food affordability, and cultural relevance. Aligned with the FAO’s perspective, truly sustainable diets comprise foods that are affordable, nutritious, developed with ingredients produced in an environmentally friendly manner, and consumer preferred. Identifying solutions to address all four domains simultaneously remains a challenge. Furthermore, the recent pandemic exposed the fragility of the food supply when food accessibility and affordability became primary concerns. There have been increasing calls for more nutrient-dense and sustainable foods, but scant recognition of the consumer’s role in adopting and integrating these foods into their diet. Dietary recommendations promoting sustainable themes often overlook how and why people eat what they do. Taste, cost, and health motivate consumer food purchase and the food system must address those considerations. Sustainable foods are perceived to be expensive, thus marginalizing acceptance by the people, which is needed for broad adoption into diets for impactful change. Transformational change is needed in food systems and supply chains to address the complex issues related to sustainability, taste, and cost. An emerging movement called regenerative agriculture (a holistic, nature-based approach to farming) provides a pathway to delivering sustainable foods at an affordable cost to consumers. A broad coalition among academia, government, and the food industry can help to ensure that the food supply concurrently prioritizes sustainability and nutrient density in the framework of consumer-preferred foods. The coalition can also help to ensure sustainable diets are broadly adopted by consumers. This commentary will focus on the challenges and opportunities for the food industry and partners to deliver a sustainable supply of nutrient-dense foods while meeting consumer expectations.
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Dow, Briony, and Colleen Doyle. "Opening the door to older consumers: Pandora's box or the way ahead?" International Psychogeriatrics 23, no. 1 (June 16, 2010): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610210000992.
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In 1945 Vannevar Bush made a report to the President of the U.S.A. in which he argued for the value of basic and public welfare research in the post-war era (Bush, 1945). Since then, the research industry has burgeoned, albeit with constant appeals for greater funding. Alongside this growth in research, the consumer movement has also grown. Since the 1970s, for example, the “consumer/survivor” movement in the U.S.A. has been calling for greater roles for people with mental health disorders in the running of their mental health services. This movement was one result of a societal change towards empowerment of people in what some considered to be an authoritarian, hierarchical system of health care provision. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the two movements have started to collide, as consumer groups request more transparency and a bigger role in research funding allocation, and researchers ponder the merits of consumer involvement in their highly technical fields of expertise.