Profiling European consumers that engage in boycotting

Mata, F.; Baptista, Nuno; Dos Santos, Maria José Palma Lampreia; Jesus Silva, Natacha

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Profiling European consumers that engage in boycotting

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dc.contributor.author	Mata, F.
dc.contributor.author	Baptista, Nuno
dc.contributor.author	Dos Santos, Maria José Palma Lampreia
dc.contributor.author	Jesus Silva, Natacha
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T15:14:49Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T15:14:49Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Artigo baseado na comunicação proferida no 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2023), ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 07-08 setembro 2023	pt_PT
dc.description.abstract	Boycott involves abstention from buying specific products or brands for political, ethical, or ecological reasons. Boycott is usually framed as an expression of political consumerism and has been on the rise. Companies that suffer a boycott may endure severe consequences including long-term damaged brand image and harmed reputation. However, there is still an incomplete picture of the socio-political and demographic profile of boycotters. Most characterizations of political consumers are based on research that combines boycotters and buycotters under a single construct of political consumers, and yet these consumers are driven by different motivations. The objective of this exploratory study is to provide a general characterization of European political consumers that engage in boycotting. The data used was collected between the 25th of May, 2022 and the18th of September, 2022, and was retrieved from the 10th edition (2022) of the European Social Survey. The study employs binary logistic regression to assess the association between boycotting and various potential factors listed in extant literature. Results indicate that boycotting behaviour is affected by age and other life-cycle variables, gender, education, institutional trust, the degree of satisfaction with the political system and the government, the level of trust in information and communication technology, reported self-happiness and self-general health perceptions. In general, the parameters of the models suggest that European consumers that engage in boycotting behaviour tend to be female, young, well-educated, trust on national political institutions and make intensive use of digital media. The conclusions of the empirical study are discussed and interpreted in light of current theories of consumer behaviour that highlight the post-modern, fragmented and globalized characteristics of current western societies. The results of this study enrich the literature on consumer boycotts and confirm the predicting power of various socio-demographic, psychological and attitudinal variables. Avenues for future research are identified together with consideration of the study limitations.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Mata, F., Baptista, N., Dos-Santos, M. & Jesus-Silva, N. (2023). Profiling european consumers that engage in boycotting. In F. Matos & Á. Rosa (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2023) (pp. 893-899), Academic Conferences International.	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34190/eckm.24.1.1390	pt_PT
dc.identifier.eissn	2048-8971
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-914587-74-0
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/17267
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Academic Conferences International (ACI)	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/eckm/article/view/1390/1377	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Political consumerism	pt_PT
dc.subject	Anti-consumption	pt_PT
dc.subject	Boycotting	pt_PT
dc.subject	Europe	pt_PT
dc.subject	European social survey	pt_PT
dc.title	Profiling European consumers that engage in boycotting	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	899	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	893	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	24(1)	pt_PT
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