Management Decision: Volume 56 Issue 3

An introduction to special issue: sustainability and ethical consumerism

Alvina Gillani, Smirti Kutaula

The effect of firm strategic orientation on corporate philanthropic engagement

Michael Abebe, Wonsuk Cha

This study explores corporate strategic orientations as important drivers of firms’ philanthropic engagement. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the…

Perfectionist decision-making style and ethical investment willingness: A two-factor causal mediation model

Yu-Cheng Lin, Chiung-Yao Huang, Yu-Shan Wei

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ethical investment willingness decision-making process to understand how investors evaluate corporate social responsibility (CSR…

For the balance of stakeholders’ power and responsibility: A collaborative framework for implementing social responsibility issues in construction projects

Xue Lin, Christabel Man-Fong Ho, Geoffrey Qiping Shen

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a collaborative framework for balancing stakeholder power and social responsibilities in construction projects. To…

Mapping the sharing economy for sustainability research

Frederik Plewnia, Edeltraud Guenther

In order to guide sustainability research on the sharing economy, the purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive framework that captures the wide range of activities and…

Selecting decision-relevant ethical product attributes for grocery shopping

Vüsal Hasanzade, Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Waldemar Toporowski

Despite the existence of various approaches for promoting ethical consumption, it remains a challenge to determine which ethical product features are actually decision relevant…

Sustainable consumption: Insights from the protection motivation (PMT), deontic justice (DJT) and construal level (CLT) theories

Hafedh Ibrahim, Mahmoud Mohammad Q. Al-Ajlouni

While there has been a great deal of research to distinguish the factors that promote the adoption of sustainable consumption, however there has been a very little attention given…

Fair trade and consumer social responsibility: Exploring consumer citizenship as a driver of social and environmental change

Matthew Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical position of the ethical consumer as a driver of change within the Fair Trade movement. Fair Trade was originally envisaged…

Looking for info? Understanding ethical consumer information management using a diary approach

Eleni Papaoikonomou, Carmen Valor, Matias Ginieis

Although the role of information has been previously studied in the ethical consumer literature, practices related to information searches and interpretation have not been fully…

Moral avoidance for people and planet: anti-consumption drivers

Lynn Sudbury-Riley, Florian Kohlbacher

The purpose of this paper is to examine a form of anti-consumption termed moral avoidance.

Ethical consumption and consumers’ decision making: the role of moral intuition

Lamberto Zollo, Sukki Yoon, Riccardo Rialti, Cristiano Ciappei

The purpose of this paper is to explore the understudied antecedents of moral reasoning and cognitive processes that ultimately shape the ethical consumption. The theory of…