One of the integral parts of determining business success directly correlates to how well a company interacts with their customers. This increased demand for direct communication has evolved how companies cooperate with their patrons and examines how essential ethics is related to these communications. Ethical Consumerism and Comparative Studies Across Different Cultures: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the fundamental issues related to ethical consumerism and applications within business, science, engineering, and technology and examines the impact Arab and global cultures have on consumerism. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as business ethics, data management, and global business, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, advertisers, marketers, sales directors, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students.

The current pandemic intensifies underlying structural bottlenecks and systemic inefficiencies. At the same time, it provokes the hasty adoption of innovations made possible by the already accelerating technological developments before being accompanied by necessary institutional and systemic adjustments. This leads to multidimensional crises as well as new socioeconomic challenges and prospects globally. The book enables readers to anticipate separate, yet interrelated functional spheres of global socioeconomic reality, understand their structure, and recognize potential vulnerabilities and opportunities in light of the current pandemic and the induced transformations. It tackles global aspects of the crisis by means of standard and innovative economic policies at the national and international level, faces challenges by businesses and revealing models of effective transformations and strategies in the present circumstances, and discusses individual and collective societal problems in light of sustaining our constantly upgrading humanitarian values in the 21st century. It is ideal for academicians, master's or Ph.D. degree students, university teachers, and scientists working in the field of management, business, economics, computer science, and engineering.

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Societal marketing has gained widespread recognition in the marketing discipline both in academia and the professional industry. The Handbook of Research on Contemporary Consumerism is an essential reference source that provides an in-depth understanding on the various aspects and issues of consumerism and reveals the critical success factors and conceptual and theoretical frameworks of these concepts from recent contexts and perspectives. Additionally, it examines the impact of identity on marketing and branding from the consumerist perspective, discusses consumerism as a source of innovation and product development, and provides insights on consumerism and profitability. Featuring research on topics such as circular economy, digital marketing, and social media, this book is ideally designed for practitioners, managers, marketers, academic researchers, and students.

Knowledge is a valuable resource that must be managed well for any organization to thrive. Proper knowledge management can improve business processes by creating value, yet the available tools meant to aid in the creation, collection, and storage of information have drastically changed since the emergence of social media. By using this collaborative online application for engaging with information, organizations are able to precisely decimate knowledge to the correct audience. Harnessing Social Media as a Knowledge Management Tool addresses the challenges and rewards of the proper use of social media, as well as the key enablers and barriers of its application. This publication endeavors to provide thorough insight into the role of social media in knowledge management from both an organizational and individual perspective. This book elucidates emerging strategies perfect for policy makers, managers, advertisers, academics, students, and organizations who wish to optimize performance.