Consumer Expectations and Consumer Protection
In: 88 George Washington Law Review 949 (2020)
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In: 88 George Washington Law Review 949 (2020)
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In: Review of social economy: the journal for the Association for Social Economics, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 177-196
ISSN: 1470-1162
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 182, Heft 1, S. 93-100
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: (2023) 12 Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML), 1-3
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In: Journal of service research, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 287-303
ISSN: 1552-7379
This article contributes, in two ways, to our understanding of the nature, scope, and significance of conversations between strangers in service environments. First, a framework is introduced that provides both academics and practitioners with a summary of the key issues associated with the stimuli, manifestations, and consequences of such conversations. Second, the article reports a market-oriented ethnography of a specific service—rail travel—that locates stranger conversations within a broader categorization of consumer travel behaviors. This has resulted in the identification of a stabilizing effect of conversations between strangers through consumer anxiety reduction, the enactment of the partial employee role, and the supply of social interaction. The stabilizing effect can act as a "defuser" of dissatisfaction in services where consumers are in close proximity for prolonged periods in the service setting and regularly express dissatisfaction with service provision.
In: Hill, Ronald & Sharma, Eesha. Consumer Vulnerability. Journal of Consumer Psychology (Forthcoming).
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In: Australian Business Law Review, Band 41, Heft 5, S. 240-269
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In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 48, Heft 5, S. 796-816
ISSN: 1537-5277
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Minimalism in consumption can be expressed in various forms, such as monochromatic home design, wardrobe capsules, tiny home living, and decluttering. This research offers a unified understanding of the variegated displays of minimalism by establishing a conceptual definition of consumer minimalism and developing the 12-item Minimalist Consumer Scale to measure the construct. Three distinct dimensions of consumer minimalism are identified: number of possessions (reflecting the ownership of few possessions), sparse aesthetic (reflecting the preference for simple and uncomplicated designs), and mindfully curated consumption (reflecting the thoughtful selection of possessions). A series of studies, using samples from a variety of populations (N = 3,735) demonstrates the validity and reliability of the tridimensional Minimalist Consumer Scale, situates the measure conceptually and empirically within a broader nomological network of related constructs (e.g., voluntary simplicity, frugality, green values, materialism), and documents the scale's ability to predict relevant consumer preferences and behaviors.
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 45, Heft 6, S. 1142-1163
ISSN: 1537-5277
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People increasingly seek out opportunities to escape from a sped-up pace of life by engaging in slow forms of consumption. Drawing from the theory of social acceleration, we explore how consumers can experience and achieve a slowed-down experience of time through consumption. To do so, we ethnographically study the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain and introduce the concept of consumer deceleration. Consumer deceleration is a perception of a slowed-down temporal experience achieved via a decrease in certain quantities (traveled distance, use of technology, experienced episodes) per unit of time through altering, adopting, or eschewing forms of consumption. Consumers decelerate in three ways: embodied, technological, and episodic. Each is enabled by consumer practices and market characteristics, rules, and norms, and results in time being experienced as passing more slowly and as being an abundant resource. Achieving deceleration is challenging, as it requires resynchronization to a different temporal logic and the ability to manage intrusions from acceleration. Conceptualizing consumer deceleration allows us to enhance our understanding of temporality and consumption, embodied consumption, extraordinary experiences, and the theory of social acceleration. Overall, this study contributes to consumer research by illuminating the role of speed and rhythm in consumer culture.
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 96-111
ISSN: 1537-5277
AbstractThis article unpacks time as a cultural consumption resource and introduces the concept of consumer timework. Consumer timework refers to marketplace stakeholders' negotiation of competing interpretations of how the past and the future relate using a wide range of consumption objects and activities. Building on the theory of temporalization, we argue that social tensions, conflicts, and breaks drive the past and the future apart in multiple incompatible ways that individuals and societies must contend. We theorize four fundamental dynamics of consumer timework in which market stakeholders engage: integrative, disintegrative, subjugatory, and emancipatory. Integrative and disintegrative consumer timework respectively harmonize and rupture the multiple temporal orientations (past, present, and future) to create shared communities or counter-communities of time through consumption. Subjugatory and emancipatory consumer timework respectively enforce and disrupt temporal hierarchies of power through consumption. We delineate these temporal dynamics using examples from extant consumer research. We conclude by establishing a future research agenda on consumer timework.
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers
ISSN: 1545-6846
In: Gupta, S., & Verma, H. (2018). Consumer Mindfulness. In Rethinking Management Education in the Digital Age. Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.
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In: European Review of Private Law, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 383-404
ISSN: 0928-9801
The proposed new Consumer Credit Directive will not only deal with credit contracts but also with surety agreements, including consumer guarantees. The latter will for the first time undergo harmonisation at EC level, and this will be in the form of total harmonisation. However, the Commission never undertook serious comparative analysis of the Member States? protection of consumer guarantors, and the proposal does not take account of the existing levels of protection. In contrast, the proposed protective instruments are incomplete and rather weak, and thus they would considerably reduce the protection of the guarantors in various Member States if the Directive disallowed more stringent national rules.
In: Journal of consumer research: JCR ; an interdisciplinary journal, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 1
ISSN: 1537-5277
In: Journal of business communication: JBC, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 33-39
ISSN: 1552-4582