A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on Fairtrade labelling

Ruggeri, Giordano; Orsi, Luigi; Corsi, Stefano

doi:10.1111/ijcs.12492

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“…Moreover, in our study, the topic of extensive mountain agriculture is also introduced, with grazing cattle, bearer of traditional values and culture, to which is added the topic of animal welfare. Finally, mountain foods are perceived as traditional products related to the cultural identity of local communities and specific cultural areas, characterized by environmental-friendly production practices [85] and animal friendly practices due to extensive, rather than intensive, agriculture typology [36]. The influence of green.cons on anim.welf.…”

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“…Ethical and social issues in sustainable food labels mainly regard animal well-being [30,[33][34][35][36] and fair-trade certification [37,38]. Nowadays, livestock production techniques are mainly based on intensive practices, and in recent years the rising consumers' awareness about food production process has led to a growing interest in food produced respecting animal well-being [33].…”

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Consumers’ Attitudes for Sustainable Mountain Cheese

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The shift towards more sustainable consumptions and habits have had tangible impacts on food markets, which have accepted this challenge by offering a variety of certification systems to pull consumers aside. However, food purchasing choices are also guided by ethical, environmental and cultural motivations, functioning as drivers of food acquiring. This study aimed at assessing the influence of consumers’ attitudes in purchasing an Alpine cheese labelled with a food sustainability logo, as the mountain product brand, following a two-step approach. We estimated the consumers’ preferences for some sustainable labels by using Choice Experiments (CE), followed by a Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) approach to assess the influence of three attitudinal scales on the consumers’ behavior. The main results show the influence of green consumers’ values on the mountain product brand choice, and a strong relationship between green consumers’ and animal well-being values. In the conclusions, some policy indications are provided.

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“…Furthermore, most of the studies on fair trade have been conducted in the USA or the United Kingdom and other Northern European countries where fair trade consumption is a well consolidated practice (Andorfer and Liebe, 2015;Ruggeri et al, 2019). Only very few studies included the Mediterranean countries like Italy, where fair trade consumption is a growing phenomenon, but still low in comparison to other European countries (Panico et al, 2015).…”

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“…Consumption of fair trade products is seen as a manifestation of ethical consumption emerging from consumers "moral or ethical considerations" (Bray et al, 2011). Fair trade is defined as a "product certification and labelling system that seeks consumers' recognition through quality labels and public and/or private certification (…) by standardizing and unveiling the conditions of production" (Ruggeri et al, 2019), which included fair prices, the payment of fair trade premiums to producers, humane working conditions and also basic ecological methods of production (Schenk, 2019).The market for fair trade products has grown significantly over the past few decades. For instance, while global fair trade products' sales amounted to €2.9 billion in 2008, they more than tripled within a decade, totalling €9.8 billion in 2018 (Fairtrade International, 2019a).…”

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“…The main objective of this study was twofold: a) to explore the variables that potentially moderate the relationship between intentions to buy fair trade products and reported purchase behaviour; b) to examine consumers' heterogeneity in purchase intention and reported purchase behaviour across product categoriesfashion and food -thus broadening and deepening existing knowledge about fair trade consumption behaviour (Herédia-Colaço et al, 2019;Ruggeri et al, 2019). Two important consumer constructs were selected as potential moderators for empirical testing: consumer subjective knowledge, and the perceived trustworthiness of information on fair trade products.…”

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The role of subjective knowledge and perceived trustworthiness in fair trade consumption for fashion and food products

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Hubert

Lischka

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how subjective knowledge about fair trade products and the perceived trustworthiness of information about fair trade goods influence purchase intention and reported purchase behaviour across two product categories, namely, fashion and food. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from an online survey with a sample of 1,616 consumers in four European countries, namely, Germany, Italy, Austria and the UK. Findings The results show that subjective knowledge moderates the positive relationship between intentions to purchase and reported purchase behaviour of fair trade products, however, the moderating role of perceived information trustworthiness was not significant. Furthermore, both the intention to purchase and reported purchase behaviour are significantly lower for fair trade fashion products than for fair trade food products. Practical implications This paper shows how fair trade consumption behaviour is mainly influenced by subjective knowledge about fair trade products. It reveals existing differences in both the buying intentions and reported purchase behaviour in different European markets. Originality/value This research broadens the understanding of consumers’ fair trade consumption behaviour across two different product categories and four different countries, with a focus on the interaction effect of consumers’ subjective knowledge and information trustworthiness.

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Ego depletion in consumer behavior: A review, synthesis, and research agenda

Rafael

Lopes

2023

J of Consumer Behaviour

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This research aims to identify, analyze, and map the intellectual structure of the topic of ego depletion in consumer behavior through the bibliometric strategies of namely co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling. We performed the co-citation analysis covering 20 years of research, divided into two 10-year analyses. The bibliographic coupling analysis focused on recent research covering the last decade, divided into two five-year analyses. The results presented the most important research, authors, research centers, and journals on the topic, as well as the factors derived from the co-citation and bibliographic coupling analysis, the evolution of the theme between the analysis and subsequent periods, and the agenda for future research. The main contribution of this article is the proposition of an agenda for future research on ego depletion and its effects on consumer behavior. | INTRODUCTIONSeveral fields have studied ego depletion (ED), including psychology and marketing . Initially, Baumeister et al. (1998) empirically presented ED and referred to the ego depletion strength model, which is defined as the decrease in ego resources after self-regulatory tasks . The current literature presents improved definitions of ED, such as the ego depletion processing model, which states that the ED mechanism is triggered by temporary changes in motivation and attention that affect subsequent self-control .The ED literature originated in psychology (Baumeister et al., 1998).ED incorporated marketing, particularly in studies of consumer behavior (CB), to understand how reducing self-regulation affects consumer goals . ED and its effects on CB have been widely studied in the current literature (Hildebrand et al., 2021).According to Reynolds and McCrea (2016), several studies published in recent years have discussed ED, and ED is one of the best-documented models of self-control in the literature. In researching the topic in the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier's Scopus databases, we found 2275 manuscripts (1590 and 685, respectively). Analyzing the studies published in the WoS, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases, we did not identify any bibliometric study on ED or relating ED and CB. This gap in the literature motivated the present study.Encouraged by the relevance of the study of the theme (Reynolds & McCrea, 2016) and by the lack of bibliometric research on ED in CB, we propose the objectives of this research: to identify, analyze, and map its intellectual structure from its origin to the present day, to establish its state of the art and future research trends. Table 1 presents the research questions based on the objectives. From the established objectives, we understand that the accuracy of bibliometric strategies of co-citation "connects documents, authors, or journals based on joint appearances in reference lists" and bibliographic coupling "connects documents, authors, or journals based on the number of shared references." We followed the recommendations for bibliometric research in A...

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A bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on Fairtrade labelling

Cited by 90 publications

References 98 publications

Consumers’ Attitudes for Sustainable Mountain Cheese

Consumers’ Attitudes for Sustainable Mountain Cheese

The role of subjective knowledge and perceived trustworthiness in fair trade consumption for fashion and food products

Ego depletion in consumer behavior: A review, synthesis, and research agenda

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