Purpose This study aims to investigate whether consumers and small businesses can transition from disposable to reusable coffee cups, using a community social marketing intervention, led by a Social Purpose Organisation. Design/methodology/approach An emergent case study approach using multiple...

Set in a real organisational setting, this study examines the challenges of implementing environmentally sustainable behaviour in healthcare. It evaluates the success of a real energy saving behaviour change intervention, based on social marketing principles, which targeted the employees of two...

The marketing literature generally supports the view that price elasticity varies from product/brand to product/brand, influential work by Ehrenberg and England (1990) suggests that elasticities show little variation even when prices themselves are changing. The paper reports an investigation of...

Consumer research incorporates perspectives from a spectrum of long-established sciences: psychology, economics and sociology. This Handbook strives to include this multitude of sources of thought, adding geography, neuroscience, ethics and behavioural ecology to this list. Encompassing scholars...