Brandom Without Entitlement Author: Santiago Napoli (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) — a punchy, targeted intervention in Brandom scholarship. Summary This article examines the role of “entitlement” in Robert Brandom’s deontic scorekeeping account of discursive agency. Napoli tests how dispensable entitlement is relative to Brandom’s other central notion, commitment. He develops three deflationary manoeuvres: a strong […]
Can Small Economies Act Strategically? The Case of Consumption Pollution and Non‐Tradable Goods Summary This paper builds an analytical model of a federation of asymmetric, small jurisdictions with internationally mobile capital and cross-border pollution generated by consumption of either tradable or non-tradable goods. Governments use two instruments — a consumption tax on the polluting good […]
The Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID) Summary The Multinational Revenue, Employment, and Investment Database (MREID) compiles firm-level measures of revenue, employment and investment for multinational enterprises (MNEs) using Orbis data, harmonised for cross-country and cross-industry analysis. The database covers 185 countries, 25 industries (from agriculture and mining to services), and an initial 12-year […]
Untangling US Employment Changes: Production Technology Versus Trade Structure Summary This paper uses structural decomposition analysis (SDA) within a global multiregional input–output (GMRIO) framework to split changes in US employment between 1995 and 2008 into contributions from: production technology (changes in production recipes and employment intensities), trade structure (shifts in import/export shares, including the China […]
First Response Matters: The Impact of First Public Response to Social Media Complaints on Observers’ Brand Attitude Summary This research paper examines how a brand’s first public reply to a social media complaint shapes observers’ attitudes toward the brand. Drawing on signalling theory, the authors compare two first-response strategies: privately-oriented (asking to take the conversation […]
Understanding Gen Z Consumers: A Typology of (Un)sustainable Purchases Summary This paper uses neutralisation theory to explain why Generation Z (born 1997–2012) often fails to convert pro-environmental attitudes into sustainable purchases. Based on 25 semi-structured interviews (ages 18–26) and thematic analysis, the authors identify four established neutralisation techniques in play (denial of responsibility, condemning the […]
When Less Pressure Leads to More Talk: Sales Tactics and Word‐of‐Mouth Summary This paper reports five experiments across clothing, travel, fitness and electronics contexts that compare two sales approaches: encourage-to-deliberate (agency-supportive, noncoercive) versus pressure-to-purchase (coercive, scarcity-driven). Across studies the encourage-to-deliberate approach consistently produced stronger positive word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions and actual sharing behaviour. The authors identify […]
Experiential Engagement: A Scale for Experiential Contexts Summary The paper develops and validates a short, unidimensional six-item scale of “experiential engagement” that is intended to be generalisable across experiential contexts (e.g., sport, music, arts). The authors conduct a systematic review of 25 context-specific engagement scales (466 items), reduce and adapt items to capture three recurring […]
GenAI Use Behavior and Post‐Failure Perceptions Among People With Functional Disabilities: A Multimethod Study Summary This multimethod paper studies how people with functional disabilities (hearing, visual and mobility impairments) adopt generative AI (GenAI) and how they react when services fail. Two studies were run: Study 1 surveyed 284 participants to identify motivational drivers of GenAI […]
The Rise of the Deinfluencers: Perceived Similarity and Anticipated Emotions in Advocating Mindful Consumption on Social Media Summary This paper examines how deinfluencers — creators who discourage purchases and promote simpler, sustainable living — affect consumers’ mindful consumption. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the authors propose and test a model across four studies. Key mechanisms […]
