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Consuming the consumers

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2011
Previous sociolinguistic research concerning the use of Hawai‘i Creole (HC) in public discourse has posited a link between a negative public image and subsequent discouragement of its use by government and media (e.g. Romaine 1999; Sato 1989, 1991, 1994), except in some limited venues.
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Consumer-to-Consumer Product Trading With Strategic Consumer Behaviors in the Sharing Economy

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2023
Technological advancements have led to an increase in the popularity of consumer-to-consumer product trading (C2C-PT). How C2C-PT affects the manufacturer (called the “firm”) and consumers in the market is unclear. We, therefore, build analytical models to explore this problem.
Juzhi Zhang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Ya-Jun Cai
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Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming

Critical Review, 1994
The tendency to denigrate consumerism derives from the widespread acceptance of sociological theories that represent consumers as prompted by such reprehensible motives as greed, pride, or envy. These theories are largely unsubstantiated and fail to address the distinctive features of modern consumption, such as the apparent insatiability of wants and ...
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Understanding consumers’ intentions to purchase green products in the social media marketing context

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to observe consumers’ attitudes toward and intentions to purchase green products on social media and to explore the relationships among social media marketing, perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE), product ...
Ying Sun, Shan-Yong Wang
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Consumer Fetish: Commercial Ethnography and the Sovereign Consumer

Organization Studies, 2015
What is the sovereign consumer that occupies such a central role in organizational discourse whose satisfaction has become an organizational imperative? Our research draws from extended fieldwork in the world of commercial ethnography. Our analysis shows how ethnography is implicated in the organizational fetishization of consumers, that is, how in the
Arnould, Eric, Cayla, Julien
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Exploring consumers' attitude towards cultured meat in Italy.

Meat Science, 2019
Cultured meat may be a novel food that would overcome the limits of conventional meat production. This paper assesses the willingness to try, buy and pay for cultured meat among a sample of Italian consumers, unveiling the attitudes towards an engineered
M. Mancini, F. Antonioli
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Consumer-to-Consumer Internet Auction Models

International Journal of Online Marketing, 2011
Internet auctions have become an increasingly common method for exchanging goods and services across the world both among consumers themselves, as well as between businesses and consumers. These Internet auction mechanisms have the scope of incorporating procedures of much greater complexity and variety, and they exhibit characteristics and properties ...
Timothy L. Y. Leung, William J. Knottenbelt   +1 more
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Consumers' Sustainable Purchase Behaviour: Modeling the Impact of Psychological Factors

Ecological Economics, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the psychological factors that predict the sustainable purchase behaviour of educated young consumers. The study has been performed on 425 young consumers.
Y. Joshi, Z. Rahman
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Trust in consumer-to-consumer electronic commerce

Information & Management, 2008
We developed a model of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce trust and tested it. We expected that two influences: internal (natural propensity to trust [NPT] and perception of web site quality [PWSQ]) and external (other's trust of buyers/sellers [OTBS] and third party recognition [TPR]) would affect an individual's trust in C2C e-commerce.
Kiku Jones, Lori N. K. Leonard
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Live streaming commerce and consumers' purchase intention: An uncertainty reduction perspective

Information Manager (The), 2021
Ben-Jiang Lu, Zhenjiao Chen
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