With growing awareness of unsustainable practices, communities are forcing businesses and governments to take serious steps towards sustainability. Microplastics enter the food chain eventually reach humans. The threat global warming recurrent climate disasters necessitate immediate action. However, all corporations rely on an ‘increase in demand’ as a growth metric, which prevents them from do...

Abstract Research on political consumerism documents a persistent reversed gender gap, as women boycott and buycott products more often than men. Previous efforts to explain the gap rely classical theoretical models developed illuminate differences in participation general. Accounting for socio‐economic situational factors well socialization leaves significant amount of unexplained, though. Adh...

This paper compares the often-criticized "selling orientation" or "selling concept" with the commonly-praised "societal marketing concept "from the perspectives of consumer rationality and persuasibility. It is suggested that both orientations view consumers as relatively irrational and as easily prone to manipulation by marketers. The implications of this similarity are explored from the persp...

In the face of this burgeoning consumerism movement, hospitals interested in staying a step ahead of their competitors are scrambling to provide improved customer service, including providing estimates. But they're discovering that gathering all the necessary data for an estimate can be very time-consuming and cumbersome. Hospitals making the effort, however, find they are in much better positi...

In the course of his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics, Ian Kennedy discussed the consumer-provider model as the means by which the patient-physician relationship might be regulated, with the patient as consumer having a major role in establishing, monitoring, and enforcing standards of medical practice. Little, a psychiatrist, agrees that such consumer involvement would help to redress th...

Suggests that institutions of higher education in the USA encounter problems that are unique to the market environment. These problems include competition for resources, escalating costs, and resource constraints. In response to these problems, higher education systems within this kind of environment tend to borrow strategies from organizations operating under the most competitive environment –...