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The role of consumer ethnocentrism on boycott behaviour: What if a domestic business behaves egregiously?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 2021
Although there is an extensive body of literature on ethnocentrism and boycott behaviour toward foreign products, this study focuses on how consumer behaviours with ethnocentric tendencies are affected by a boycott movement caused by an egregious act ...
Elif Ulker-Demirel, Özgur Kayapinar
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Consumer Boycotts

Management Decision, 1989
Consumer boycotts are a powerful way to get businesses to change their policies, if rather difficult to harness. The author looks in detail at the position of Barclays Bank in South Africa, and at Nestlé′s marketing of baby milk to the Third World. The author concludes that management should be aware of their social responsibilities not least because ...
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On the Sources of Consumer Boycotts Ineffectiveness

The Journal of Environment & Development, 2009
This article investigates weaknesses of consumer boycotts. First, usual shortcomings of collective action, such as coordination failure and free riding, reduce considerably the success likelihood. Second, consumers with the highest ability to hurt the targeted firm’s profit also have the highest opportunity cost of boycotting.
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Strong Reciprocity in Consumer Boycotts

Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
Boycotts are among the most frequent forms of consumer expression against unethical or egregious acts by firms. Most current research explains consumers’ decisions to participate in a boycott using a universal cost-benefit model that mixes instrumental and expressive motives. To date, no conceptual framework accounts for the distinct behavioral motives
Tobias Hahn, Noël Albert
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CONSUMER BOYCOTT AND FACTORS AFFECTING THE PARTICIPATION OF CONSUMERS IN BOYCOTT

2019
Tüketici boykotu kavramı, tüketiciyi etkileyen herhangi bir problemeatıfta bulunarak, bu problemin ortaya çıkmasına neden olan işletmeyi etkilemeçabaları olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Söz konusu bu çabalar ise ilgili işletmeürününün satın alınmasına engel teşkil eden tüketici hâkimiyetinin toplu biruygulaması olarak tezahür etmektedir.Bu çalışmanın amacı ...
BALABAN, Selin, YÜCEL, Serap
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Consumer boycott of trichloroethane urged

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 1990
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), has called for a consumer boycott of household products containing 1,1,1-trichloroethane, also known as methylchloroform. The U.S. government, industry producers, and users agree that the solvent helps deplete upper atmosphere ozone, and they support eventual replacement.
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An evaluation of strategic responses to consumer boycotts

Journal of Business Research, 2009
This article documents the relative effectiveness of the various marketing strategies, in particular the public relations strategies, that firms use to combat the likelihood of boycotts as a politically motivated form of anti-consumption. This study focuses on boycotts that relate to corporate practices and aims to provide a rationale for appropriate ...
Ulku Yuksel, Victoria Mryteza
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Consumers' activism: the cottage cheese boycott

The RAND Journal of Economics, 2017
AbstractWe study a consumer boycott on cottage cheese, organized in Israel on Facebook in the summer of 2011 following a steep price increase since 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices, which remain low even six years later. We find that (i) demand at the start of the boycott would have been 30% higher but for the boycott, (ii) own ...
Igal Hendel, Saul Lach, Yossi Spiegel
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Consumer boycotts due to factory relocation

Journal of Business Research, 2009
Multinational companies that decide to relocate subsidiaries often appear socially irresponsible. Consumer boycotts are a common response to this type of action, especially in the subsidiary's homeland; however, the factors that motivate individual boycott decisions remain largely unexplored.
Stefan Hoffmann, Stefan Müller
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Consumer Boycotts Through the Internet

2014
This study uses the market model to examine the use of the Internet as a vehicle for organizing consumer boycotts. It concludes on the basis of the results that unlike the print medium, the Internet is not an effective means for organizing consumer boycotts.
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