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This book will provide an overview of recent and current research which defines and scopes the field of responsible marketing in one single edited book.
List of contents
EditorsContributors1. Introduction: Responsible Marketing
Michael Saren, Louise Hassan, Miriam McGowan, N. Craig Smith, Emma Surman, and Rohit Varman Section 1: Encouraging and Challenging Responsible Consumption 2. Environmentally sustainable spillover effects
Megan Burnett 3. Experience of a self-control conflict: A key to unlock the exertion of self-control effort in sustainable consumption
Ngoc T H Nguyen and Louise Hassan 4. Is it irresponsible to responsibly market alcohol?: The role of corporate social responsibility in the UK alcohol industry
Isabelle Szmigin5. Responsible marketing and consumption starts with changing mindsets: How educators can embed responsible marketing and consumption into curricula
Sarah Montano and Inci Toral Manson Section 2: Promoting Marketing Care, Access and Diversity 6. Broken Promises: A day in the life of a carer
Leighanne Higgins and Killian O'Leary 7. Film and the marketplace exclusion of aging female sexuality: A critical feminist review
Julie Whiteman 8. Toward a broadened understanding of care, markets and consumption
Andreas Chatzidakis9. Swapping food and cultivating care at community food swaps
Emma Surman Section 3: Marketing Responsibility and Technology 10. Responsible technology in marketing: Theory, adoption, practice
Robert Cluley and William Green11. Imagining responsible marketing in the digital economy: Why it is easier to think about AI overloads than digital marketing as a source of freedom
Mike Molesworth, Iris Hong-Bich Truong and Georgiana Grigore 12. When responsibility fails: The case of Facebook/Meta's response to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Hazel Westwood 13. Responsible marketing in a time of culture war
Ken Peattie Section 4: Marketing Ethics and Sustainability 14. On justification: Exploring the controversies and sensemaking of the ethical tourist
Solon Magrizos 15. Ready meals' and dinner meal deals' contribution to overconsumption: Using social marketing and the intervention ladder models to examine actions
Sheena Leek and Daniel Afoakwah 16. CSR halo and perceptions of company CSR programs
Sofia López-Rodríguez, N. Craig Smith and Daniel Read 17. The need for responsible film marketing
Finola Kerrigan Section 5: Critical Perspectives on Marketing and Society18. Postcolonialism, subalternity, and critical marketing
Rohit Varman 19. Identity-in-creation: Breaking the mould of identity projects
Pilar Rojas-Gaviria 20. Regimes of visibility: Unravelling media, conflict, and hegemony in place branding processes
Alessandro Gerosa 21. Double movement, sociality and resistance in markets
Rohit Varman Section 6: Concluding Chapter22. Striving to be and market a "responsible" business school
Catherine Cassell, Caroline Moraes, and Emily Muscat-Sharp
About the author
Michael Saren is a Professor of Marketing at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. He is also an Emeritus Professor at Leicester University, where he was head of the marketing division 2004-2014. He was previously a Professor of Marketing at Strathclyde University and an Honorary Professor at St Andrews University. He has been a member of the academic senate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the executive committee of EMAC, and was awarded an honorary fellowship and lifetime membership of the UK Academy of Marketing.
Louise M. Hassan (¿¿¿) is an Associate Professor in Marketing at Birmingham Business School. She was previously a Professor of Consumer Psychology at Bangor Business School (2015-2021). Her research interests focus on responsible consumption. In particular, she is interested in understanding psychological processes underlying consumption decisions.
Miriam McGowan is a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Birmingham. Her research draws on a consumer psychology perspective to understand consumer decision-making and the role of emotions. Miriam is interested in how peoples' behaviours can be changed for good, such as by encouraging pro-social and pro-environmental choices.
N. Craig Smith is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Visiting Professor in Marketing at the University of Birmingham Business School. His research is at the intersection of business and society, encompassing business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
Emma Surman is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research falls broadly within the areas of consumer culture, critical marketing, sociology of consumption and ethics, and sustainability in relation to consumer practices.
Rohit Varman is a Professor at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. His current interdisciplinary research focuses on corporate violence, exploitation, modern slavery, and resistance to corporatisation and marketisation.
