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10 Citations
4,731 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2020

Consumer Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility Authenticity (CPCSRA) belongs to the field of micro Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) research. In general, understanding the formation mechanism of CPCSRA could make it better able to play its r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,922 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Socially Responsible Consumption: A Segmentation of Spanish Consumers

  • María Manuela Palacios-González and
  • Antonio Chamorro-Mera

13 October 2020

The fight against the environmental and social problems faced by humanity requires a change in the consumption system. A new consumer is required, who takes into consideration that their acts are part of the cause of these problems, but also part of...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,544 Views
18 Pages

Corporate Social Responsibilities of Food Processing Companies in Vietnam from Consumer Perspective

  • Phuong-Mai Nguyen,
  • Nam D. Vo,
  • Nguyen Phuc Nguyen and
  • Yongshik Choo

20 December 2019

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been receiving increasing attention in the international community since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise effective corporate partnership. CSR is one of the most critical instruments linking...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,563 Views
21 Pages

Jumping on the Bandwagon of Responsibility—Or Not? Consumers’ Perceived Role in the Meat Sector

  • Jeanette Klink-Lehmann,
  • Nina Langen,
  • Johannes Simons and
  • Monika Hartmann

21 May 2022

It is evident that sustainable meat consumption and production require shared responsibility for actions and consequences by consumers and producers. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the relevant focus areas within the meat food value chain th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,453 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2018

The present study examined consumer responses to strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspectives of consumer moral emotions (empathy) and cognition (moral identity), and investigated charitable activities conducted by convenienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,490 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2024

The digital era has profoundly reshaped consumer behavior, with social media and e-commerce platforms revolutionizing shopping experiences. This study integrates interviews with questionnaire survey to investigate the nuanced differences in consumer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,796 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2023

As the public’s awareness of environmental protection and their concern for environmental issues increase, more and more companies are focusing on fulfilling their environmental responsibilities and meeting the green needs of consumers through...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
22,609 Views
17 Pages

The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Consumer Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Consumer Engagement via Social Media

  • Shafig Al-Haddad,
  • Abdel-Aziz Ahmad Sharabati,
  • Mohammad Al-Khasawneh,
  • Rand Maraqa and
  • Raya Hashem

1 June 2022

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a vital factor in how organizations run their businesses. Consumers are becoming more aware of it and are expecting it from organizations. With the rise of social media, organizations have another chan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,769 Views
25 Pages

30 May 2022

Studies on emotions linked to sensory characteristics to understand consumers’ choice behaviour have grown in number rapidly. Internal consumer behaviour variables, namely mood, familiarity, acceptability, and attitude (MFAA), have been found t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
37,294 Views
21 Pages

31 March 2023

Responsible sustainable consumer behavior might serve as a complex pattern of social and environmental issues, consistent with the perspective of sustainability as a construct with both social and environmental pillars. Anchored on signaling theory a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,686 Views
18 Pages

29 May 2021

Consumer environmental responsibility has been commonly considered as an antecedent to green consumption intention and eco-design purchases. However, little research has investigated how environmental concern affects the relationship between design a...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,739 Views
13 Pages

26 July 2023

This study examines the effect of consumers’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on their anti-consumer awareness. Specifically, this study aims to uncover the mechanisms through which the consumer’s CSR perception relate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,649 Views
23 Pages

17 May 2022

Companies expend significant financial resources on corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to enhance their image. This study had two objectives. By drawing on three fundamental consumer values as moderators, the first aim was to discover h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,630 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2020

The aim of this paper is to explore the generation of consumers’ responses to sustainability design strategies by considering the principles of affective design. A conceptual model of consumers’ response, in which a distinction is made be...

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  • Open Access
2,835 Views
17 Pages

4 March 2025

This study investigates the impact of general consumers’ compulsive hoarding behavior (CHB) on future behavioral responses and examines the moderating roles of reward type, hoarding pattern, and self-monitoring. To achieve this, we conducted an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,944 Views
22 Pages

8 December 2021

Consumer behaviour in the energy field is playing a more important role in the new approach dominated by the proliferation of renewable energy sources. In this new context, the grid has to balance the intermittent and uncertain renewable energy gener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,982 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2022

Green advertising is one of the important tools for companies to carry out marketing activities, and it is especially important for green brand owners to improve the persuasive effect of green advertising. Existing studies focus on the effectiveness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,816 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

The intention-action gap stands out in research on sustainable consumption for decades. The current research explores the role of socially desirable responding (SDR) in the appearance of this gap by utilising an indirect questioning technique. Two on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,822 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2023

Fully understanding the local populace’s awareness and reactions to corporate social responsibility (CSR) with a strong emphasis on sustainability is crucial for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to design and implement effective localized CSR s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,538 Views
16 Pages

24 May 2021

Responding to the appeal for more research on the contingencies that shape the relationship between CSR and corporate performance, this paper incorporates environmental CSR, sets up an experimental survey and employs multiple mediation analysis with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,243 Views
17 Pages

2 October 2022

Apart from the broad oversight of a company’s supply chain practices, more businesses are recognizing the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its influence on societal well-being. In addition to their financial success, rati...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,192 Views
24 Pages

Aggregation of small size consumers and Distributed Generation (DG) units have a considerable impact to catch the full flexibility potential, in the context of Demand Response programs. New incentive mechanisms are needed to remunerate consumers adeq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,557 Views
13 Pages

With the rise of consumer awareness in the increasingly competitive marketplace, attracting consumers’ attention to a successful product is an important issue. Regarding consumers’ purchasing decisions for bottled beverages, decision-maki...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,703 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2017

Multinational retailers are now very powerful and their activities could influence whole economies. In this paper, we investigate why they engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices towards consumers, how it fosters sustainable develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,875 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2022

Due to the limited service life of new energy vehicle power batteries, a large number of waste power batteries are facing “retirement”, so it will soon be important to effectively improve the recycling and reprocessing of waste power batt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,760 Views
17 Pages

Consumers’ Social Responsibility in the Process of Energy Consumption—The Case of Poland

  • Kinga Hoffmann-Burdzińska,
  • Agata Stolecka-Makowska,
  • Olaf Flak,
  • Marcin Lipowski and
  • Mariusz Łapczyński

14 July 2022

Although European energy policy supports the reduction of energy consumption, the current economic and political situation in Poland and uncertainty related to the origin of energy sources do not support it. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to ide...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,965 Views
14 Pages

26 June 2017

This study aims to reveal that different stakeholders have different environmental preferences by demonstrating the managers’ dilemma of selecting an appropriate environmental strategy to achieve firms’ corporate goals. It analyzes the effects of fir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
17,786 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2022

In recent years, climate change and global warming have been exacerbated by human over-development, and consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of environmental protection. Therefore, many companies are now implementing green prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,956 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2021

Purpose This paper aims to study the specifics of managing the risks of innovative activities during the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in entrepreneurship that is focused on the consumer market in countries with different...

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  • Open Access
55 Citations
11,129 Views
12 Pages

7 February 2019

In contemporary society, which is preoccupied with sustainability issues, green marketing highlights a new dimension of the economic, social, and environmental responsibilities of businesses. This article aims to provide an integrative vision on gree...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
12,123 Views
19 Pages

Consumer Response to Novel Foods: A Review of Behavioral Barriers and Drivers

  • Cihat Günden,
  • Pelin Atakan,
  • Murat Yercan,
  • Konstadinos Mattas and
  • Marija Knez

27 June 2024

There is a pressing need for a transition toward more sustainable diets, which has become a shared priority for both consumers and businesses. Innovation is becoming increasingly widespread across all facets of the food supply chain. This innovation...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,821 Views
23 Pages

14 April 2020

Looking at the impact of society on the environment or, as we write this manuscript in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the scenes of consumers hoarding products, we wonder if consumers really do exhibit socially responsible consumer behaviors (SRCB...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,094 Views
16 Pages

13 June 2017

The marketing literature suggests that company-cause fit is of key importance to developing a successful socially responsible initiative. However, controversy exists regarding the level of this fit. While some studies report that high fit between a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
12,944 Views
20 Pages

Perception of Advertisements for Healthy Food on Social Media: Effect of Attitude on Consumers’ Response

  • Pedro Cuesta-Valiño,
  • Pablo Gutiérrez Rodríguez and
  • Estela Núñez-Barriopedro

The growing concern for health is currently a global trend, so promoting healthy products is an opportunity that companies can exploit to differentiate their products in highly competitive markets. The purpose of this research is to examine the antec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,269 Views
24 Pages

25 December 2023

This study delves into Consumer Social Responsibility (CnSR) within the fashion industry, with the goal of understanding consumers’ sustainable and responsible behavior across three major consumption stages: acquisition, utilization, and dispos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
102,766 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2023

This paper aims to study the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on brand image and brand equity and its impact on consumer satisfaction. The study follows a quantitative methodology, using the implementation of an online questionnaire di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,291 Views
32 Pages

This study investigates how AI-driven virtual anchors affect consumers’ purchase intentions by identifying their key attributes, underlying mechanisms, and configurational interplay. We integrate latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), structural eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
14,384 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2018

Matcha green tea powder (MGTP) is made with finely ground green tea leaves that are rich in phytochemicals, most particularly catechins. Shortbread biscuits were enriched with MGTP and evaluated for consumer acceptability and potential functional hea...

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  • Open Access
2,458 Views
18 Pages

This study investigates how different mobile advertising cues (WOM, product, and price cues) affect consumer responses in terms of advertisement clicks and purchases. A large-scale field experiment was conducted on a mobile online learning platform w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,517 Views
28 Pages

15 September 2022

Despite the urgency of protecting the environment, unsustainable apparel consumption continues to damage it. We identified some of the most important consumer concerns (i.e., affordability, social desirability, environment protection) from the litera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,721 Views
21 Pages

Day Ahead Bidding of a Load Aggregator Considering Residential Consumers Demand Response Uncertainty Modeling

  • Zhaofang Song,
  • Jing Shi,
  • Shujian Li,
  • Zexu Chen,
  • Wangwang Yang and
  • Zitong Zhang

19 October 2020

As the electricity consumption and controllability of residential consumers are gradually increasing, demand response (DR) potentials of residential consumers are increasing among the demand side resources. Since the electricity consumption level of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
7,462 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2019

The increasingly serious destruction of the natural environment represents a great threat to the sustainable development of human beings and the earth. Under pressure from the government and public opinion, companies must assume environmental respons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,496 Views
26 Pages

10 January 2020

Companies nowadays strive to gain public recognition through corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. However, what are consumers’ cognition and evaluations of these CSR efforts, and can they be explained by the concentric circle model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,824 Views
13 Pages

5 October 2022

The relationship between oral physiology (e.g., salivary protein content) and aroma perception over wine consumption was investigated in previous work. However, the relationship between oral physiology and the consumer’s response to wine is unknown....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,238 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2021

Demand response plays a very important role in balancing the intermittent production of an increasing share of renewable energy sources on the energy market. This article analyses the importance of demand response and the role of aggregators for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
15,244 Views
22 Pages

30 March 2021

Although a growing number of consumers acknowledge the importance of firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, how companies can effectively communicate these initiatives to consumers is still a challenge. Although the rise of social m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,340 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2021

Demand side response is becoming an increasingly significant issue for reliable power systems’ operation. Therefore, it is desirable to ensure high effectiveness of such programs, including electricity tariffs. The purpose of the study is devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
813 Views
18 Pages

Social-Sciences- and Humanities-Based Profiling of Energy Consumers Towards Increasing Demand Response Engagement

  • Panagiotis Skaloumpakas,
  • Aikaterini Sianni,
  • Vasilis Michalakopoulos,
  • Paul Tobin,
  • Bonnie Murphy,
  • Elissaios Sarmas and
  • Vangelis Marinakis

18 September 2025

This paper investigates the effectiveness of demand response (DR) programs across various European residential contexts by examining the propensity of households to participate in energy management strategies. Utilizing a comprehensive, literature-dr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,385 Views
27 Pages

25 May 2025

This study examines consumers’ ethical and responsible food purchasing decisions in Istanbul Province, Türkiye. These decisions are crucial for sustainable food consumption and policies. The data for this study were collected through a survey of 616...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,971 Views
17 Pages

Responsible Marketing in the Traffic Light Labeling of Food Products in Ecuador: Perceptions of Cuenca Consumers

  • Otilia Vanessa Cordero-Ahiman,
  • Jorge Leonardo Vanegas,
  • Cecilia Alexandra Fernández-Lucero,
  • Daniela Fernanda Torres-Torres,
  • Víctor Dante Ayaviri-Nina and
  • Gabith Miriam Quispe-Fernández

10 March 2022

Responsible marketing (RM) helps companies make products that improve people’s lives and is in line with public policies that provide a positive impact on society; an example of this is traffic light nutritional labelling (TLNL). Ecuador was a...

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