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RESEARCH INSIGHT: Consumers Will Pay a Premium for Sustainability when They Think They Can Make a Difference
Authors: Ewart, Tom; The Network Team
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2009
Most of what we know about sustainable consumerism is based on surveys, which are good indicators of attitudes but lousy predictors of behaviours.
Motivating Sustainable Consumption
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Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Jyväskylä
Publication Year: 2011
This course focuses on current consumption trends and sustainable consumption. Attention is placed on the roles of consumption in society, models of consumer behaviour as well as intrinsic motivation, responsibility and emotions.
Social Issues in Business
Author:
Product Type: Syllabi
Source:
Publication Year: 2009
Overview of the impact of social issues on managerial decision making.
Environmental Marketing
Author: Milne, Tamar
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of British Columbia
Publication Year: 2011
Consumer awareness of environmental and sustainability issues has evolved from an emerging social movement to mainstream values. This course will challenge traditional associations between marketing and consumerism and explore how strategic marketing can create positive new alternatives for society.
Don't Buy This Jacket, Black Friday and the New York Times
Author:
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Cleanest Line
Publication Year: 2011
Why run an ad in The New York Times on Black Friday telling people, “Don’t Buy This Jacket”? Patagonia argues that businesses need to make fewer things but of higher quality. Customers need to think twice before they buy.
Waste Couture: Environmental Impact of the Clothing Industry
Authors: Hollingsworth, Jack; Luz, Claudio
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115 Number 9
Publication Year: 2007
How does a T-shirt originally sold in a U.S. shopping mall to promote an American sports team end up being worn by an African teen?
Responsible Marketing
Author:
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Jyväskylä
Publication Year: 2011
The course covers the issues related to responsible and ethical marketing and corporates' social and environmental responsibility from different viewpoints. The course starts with a premiss that companies arenot only responsible to their shareholders but also to society as a whole.
sustainable society and business innovation
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Product Type: Syllabi
Source: KAIST Business School
Publication Year: 2011
Everybody seems to accept that the current way of living is not sustainable in the long run. Other than this, however, everything else is open to huge uncertainty. Will consumers really change their behavior? Will big companies really change the way how they produce and deliver the values in a sustainable way? Will governments really enforce more stringent regulations? Can international community really agree on the way to fill the gaps between the rich and the poor? All these questions are critical in formulating business strategies.
Needs and Wants: Marketing in a Sustainable Society
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Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Marlboro College
Publication Year: 2009
Defining needs and wants broadly – to include but not remain limited within a conventional marketing perspective – this course examines and works with the practical dimensions of designing, pricing, distributing, and informing/persuading stakeholders about a product or service.
Buyer Behavior
Author: Spencer, Fredrika
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Wake Forest University
Publication Year: 2011
Consumerism takes many forms. The intent of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the internal factors (affect and cognition) and the external factors (the environment) and their impact on consumer behavior.
Consumerism and Social Issues
Author: Gupta, Pola
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Wright State University
Publication Year: 2009
This course is a critical study of marketing concepts and practices as related to contemporary social issues in the American economy. Topics include: consumerism, ecology, product safety, truth in advertising, poverty, national interest, social responsibility, the role of government in consumer protection...
The Illusions of Environmentalism
Author: Dauvergne, Peter
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The European Financial Review
Publication Year: 2011
The rising tide of consumption worldwide is swamping many of the gains from stricter environmental laws, higher environmental standards, and the creative energy of environmental activists and philanthropists. Why is this happening?
Variety, Vice, and Virtue
Author: Liu, Wendy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Publication Year: 2008
Research has demonstrated that assortment size can influence whether consumers make a choice, but could it also influence what they choose?
Patagonia
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Freier, Debbie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry...
Socially Conscious Consumerism
Authors: Cotte, June; Trudel, Remi
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2009
We think we know a lot about socially conscious consumerism but there is a lack of conclusive, empirical evidence that consumers will pay more for socially responsible products or services...
Who Are the Ethical Consumers?
Authors: Cowe, Roger; Williams, Simon
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Cooperative Bank
Publication Year: 2000
Shoppers are highly aware of ethical issues and many are ready to put their money where their morals are.
Ethical Consumers and Ethical Trade: A Review of Current Literature
Authors: Tallontire, Anne; Rentsendorj, Erdenechimeg; Blowfield, Mick
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The University of Greenwich
Publication Year: 2001
The publication reveals that ethical consumerism is a complex phenomenon, something that those calling for greater consumer awareness of ethical issues need to understand when promoting different forms of ethical trade.
Sole Mates: Looking for 'Profit with a Purpose' from Socially Conscious Footwear Customers
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2009
Dehtiar, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is founder and president of Oliberté, a start-up that hopes to produce casual footwear in Africa and sell it to socially minded consumers.
Offsetting Green Guilt
Author: Kotchen, Matthew J.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2009
Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets simply a way for guilt-ridden consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings? Here's what an economist has to say...
Cultivating the Green Consumer
Authors: Bonini, Sheila; Oppenheim, Jeremy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
Consumers say they want to buy ecologically friendly products and reduce their impact on the environment. But when they get to the cash register, their Earth-minded sentiments die on the vine. Although individual quirks underlie some of this hypocrisy, businesses can do a lot more to help would-be green consumers turn their talk into walk.
Capturing the Green Advantage for Consumer Companies
Authors: Manget, Joe; Roche, Catherine; Munnich, Felix
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2009
Consumers everywhere are concerned about the environment, but will they continue to purchase green products now that the economy has taken a nose dive? BCG’s global survey of indicates they will. Although consumers may be cutting back on big-ticket items, green continues to be a significant factor in where consumers shop and what they buy. But green is not a license to charge more, although many consumers will pay a little more for green products offering the right benefits.
Sustainability Through Servicizing
Author: Rothenberg, Sandra
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2007
In an increasingly environmentally conscious and cost-conscious world, suppliers can make their business both more sustainable and more profitable by focusing on services that extend the efficiency and value of their products.
Helping 'Green' Products Grow
Authors: Bonini, Sheila; Oppenheim, Jeremy
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: McKinsey & Company
Publication Year: 2008
When customers reach the cash register, they often forget their eco-friendly attitudes. Businesses can do a lot more to help would-be “green” consumers walk their talk.
e-Waste: West Africa Continues to Drown in the Rich World's Obsolete Electronics
Author: Consumers International
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Interviews
Source: Consumers International
Publication Year: 2008
Every month, hundreds of tons of obsolete computers, televisions and other household consumer electronics are arriving at ports in Ghana and Nigeria.
Patagonia: Recycling to Keep You Warm
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2005
In 1993, Patagonia adopted fleece made from post consumer recycled plastic soda bottles into its clothing product line, becoming the first outdoor clothing manufacturer to do so.
Does Being Ethical Pay?
Authors: Trudel, Remi; Cotte, June
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: MIT-Sloan Management Review
Publication Year: 2008
Companies spend huge amounts of money to be 'socially responsible.' Do consumers reward them for it? And how much?
Let My People Go Surfing
Author: Chouinard, Yvon
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: The Penguin Press HC
Publication Year: 2005
In this chronicle of his life in business, Yvon Chouinard details the process of building Patagonia into a highly-successful and environmentally-responsible business with people-centered management structures...
Sustainable Consumption and Product-Service System
Authors: Nascimento, Luis Felipe; Dinato, Monique Revillion
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Luis Felipe Nascimento
Publication Year: 2006
In the past decades there has been a significant advance in environmental issues and a bigger global commitment to sustainable development. Based on the concept of Sustainable Development and presenting a theoretical review about Sustainable Consumption this essay supplies some reflections on the theme by placing a special emphasis on Product-Service System.
The Good Consumer: Buying Ethical Is Not as Straightforward as It Seems
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
Consumers are right to be suspicious of the ethical claims made for many products.
Just Good Business
Author: The Economist
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Economist Special Report
Publication Year: 2008
Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream. But as yet too few companies are doing it well, says Daniel Franklin.
Cannibals with Forks
Author: Elkington, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: New Society Publishers
Publication Year: 1998
Elkington ponders whether holding corporations accountable to a "triple bottom-line" of economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social justice constitutes progress.
Social Context of Business
Author: Etzion, Dror
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: McGill University
Publication Year: 2012
In this class we will examine a wide range of topics from the concept of capitalism to the possibility of environmentally and socially sustainable economic development. Our goal is to provide a context for your business studies that will help you think more broadly about the evolution of the business system and about the relation between business and other sectors of society...
Rio+20: Jeffrey Sachs on How Business Destroyed Democracy and Virtuous Life
Author: Confino, Jo
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Guardian
Publication Year: 2012
The world famous economist on corporate control, the search for happiness and why a multi-disciplinary approach is the only way to find solutions to sustainability challenges.
Special Issue: Sustainability and Consumption
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Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Sustainability
Publication Year: 2011
It is clear that our current consumption patterns are producing environmental degradation that imperils future generations. More prudent resource consumption must replace over-consumption in the wealthier states and accompany growing consumption in the developing states. While these principles are widely-acknowledged, the path to a more sustainable future is still unclear. This special issue contains manuscripts that highlight research at the intersection of consumption and sustainability.
Yvon Chouinard
Author: From Scratch Radio
Product Type: Interviews; Multimedia
Source: NPR
Publication Year: 2011
Yvon Chouinard’s company Patagonia has been a model of business and environmental responsibility since its inception in 1973.
OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence
Authors: Cuddy, Amy J.C.; Doherty, Kyle T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex Laskey, who were inspired by Robert Cialdini's behavioral science research showing that people's normative beliefs - and messaging tailored to those beliefs - had a powerful and measurable impact on their energy-conserving behaviors.
Better World Books
Authors: Norton, Michael I.; Wilson, Fiona; Avery, Jill; Steenburgh, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially-conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the wastestream, while providing a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts.
Business Model Innovation by Better Place: A Green Ecosystem for the Mass Adoption of Electric Cars
Authors: Meenakshisundaram, Ramalingam; Shankar, Besta
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2010
Shai Agassi started Better Place with the ambition of setting up an ecosystem -- including a ‘smart grid’ of charging stations and battery swapping facilities -- for electric vehicles. However, it remained to be seen whether the proposed ecosystem and business model would encourage widespread adoption of electric vehicles...
Mapping of Evidence on Sustainable Development Impacts That Occur in the Life Cycles of Clothing
Authors: Madsen, Jacob; Hartlin, Bryan; Perumalpillai, Shahila; Selby, Sarah; Aumônier, Simon
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Ltd. Defra, London.
Publication Year: 2007
The project supports identification of opportunities for improving the sustainability performance of clothing within the UK and internationally across the supply chain, and focuses on breaking the link between economic growth and environmental degradation
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Clothes Cleaning
Authors: Maxwell, Dorothy; Lee-Wolf, Charlotte
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Defra Sustainable Consumption & Production Evidence Base
Publication Year: 2009
The project aim was to identify and analyse the options to reduce the energy, water and chemicals intensity of clothes cleaning.
Apparel Eco-Factory in Sri Lanka
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: JAAF
Publication Year: 2008
The Garments Without Guilt campaign focuses on ethically-made clothing--meaning free of child labour, free of sweatshop conditions and free of forced labour.
Sweatshop Labor is Wrong Unless the Jeans are Cute: Motivated Moral Disengagement
Authors: Paharia, Neeru; Deshpande, Rohit
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
While many consumers say they care about issues such as sweatshop labor, the existence of a very small market for ethically-produced products does not reflect this sentiment.
Introduction to Sustainable Business Practices
Author: Arnould, Eric J.
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: University of Wyoming
Publication Year: 2008
This course takes a close look at what is happening in business practice today through the 'lens' of sustainability. Business models and systems will be discussed and a framework proposed for assessing the ways in which principles of sustainability may be embedded within corporate strategy.
Considering Profits and Principles in Technology Adoption Decisions (A, B)
Authors: Byrne, Keely; Detert, Jim
Product Type: Cases
Source: Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics
Publication Year: 2006
Outlines Patagonia's company background and highlights factors affecting a particular set of decisions around new technology and environmental concerns.
Search of the Week Archive
Author: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Product Type:
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
The following is a list of CasePlace.org’s Searches of the Week.
The Conquest of Cool
Author: Frank, Thomas
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1998
In his book-length essay The Conquest of Cool, Thomas Frank explores the ways in which Madison Avenue co-opted the language of youthful '60s rebellion. It is "the story," Frank writes, "of the bohemian cultural style's trajectory from adversarial to hegemonic; the story of hip's mutation from native language of the alienated to that of advertising." This appropriation had wide-ranging consequences that deeply transformed our culture--consequences that linger in the form of '90s "hip consumerism."
The Soul of Capitalism
Author: Greider, William
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Simon & Schuster
Publication Year: 2003
American society is a culture of paradoxes. Never has a country produced such great abundance, yet never have we had to work such long hours to sustain a quality of life marred by corporate exploitation and senseless consumerism. Collectively, our middle class possesses massive wealth, yet we are currently powerless to effect substantial change in both the capitalist or democratic systems.
Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon
Author: Cheney, George
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide- ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy.
Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles
Author: Roddick, Anita
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Anita Roddick Books
Publication Year: 2005
Anita Roddick is one of the world’s most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of the age.
The High Price of Materialism
Author: Kasser, Tim
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: A Bradford Book
Publication Year: 2003
In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health.
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