The purpose of this paper is to try to clarify a number of issues about ethical consumerism - in particular, how much do consumers think about ethical product features when making purchases and are there differences between individuals in the extent of their caring. In studying the issue of...

This paper examines the role that social attributes — environmental and labour conditions — play in product choice across a range of developed and emerging economies. We use a multi-attribute design to force consumers to not only trade-off social attributes with tangible attributes but also...

The market-internalization framework can be applied to non-economic institutions because society's nonmarket subsystems – political, social and cultural – are subject to failures just like economic markets, and firms can contribute to their repair or replacement by selectively, strategically...