The ethical consumer /
Contributor(s): Harrison, Rob | Newholm, Terry | Shaw, Deirdre.
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2005Description: xviii, 259 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1412903521 (cased); 9781412903523:; 141290353X (pbk.).Subject(s): Consumer behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects | Marketing -- Moral and ethical aspects | Social responsibility of businessDDC classification: 658.8342Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 658.8342 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Lost Checked out | 20/08/2019 | 0056821 | |
Standard Loan | ATU St Angela's McKeown Library Main Lending Collection | 658.8342 ETH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | T34201 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-252) and index.
Philosophy and ethical consumption / Clive Barnett, Philip Cafaro and Terry Newholm -- The consumer as economic voter / Roger A. Dickinson and Mary L. Carsky -- A brief history of consumer activism / Tim Lang and Yiannis Gabriel -- Pressure groups, campaigns and consumers / Rob Harrison -- Informing ethical consumers / Hannah Berry and Morven McEachern -- The effectiveness of ethical consumer behaviour / Scott Clouder and Rob Harrison -- Case studying ethical consumers' projects and strategies / Terry Newholm -- Using existential-phenomenological interviewing to explore meanings of consumption / Hélène Cherrier -- Modelling consumer decision making in fair trade / Deirde Shaw -- Identifying and profiling apparel label users / Marsha A. Dickson -- Focus groups on consumers' ethical beliefs / Barry Clavin and Alex Lewis -- Surveying ethical and environmental attitudes / Robert Worcester and Jenny Dawkins -- Corporate disclosure and auditing / Carol A. Adams and Ambika Zutshi -- Meeting the ethical gaze : challenges for orienting to the ethical market / Andrew Crane.
Focusing on ethical consumers, their behavior, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.