Stand out or fit in: Understanding consumer minimalism from a social comparison perspective

S Chen, S Kou, L Lv - Journal of Business Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Consumer minimalism has been gaining popularity globally over the past few years.
Drawing from social comparison theory, the current research investigates how social …

Conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption of luxury goods in a digital world: insights, implications, and future research directions

A Pangarkar, P Shukla - International Journal of Advertising, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Luxury brands are conduits of attractiveness, desirability, and status and their demand has
not been impacted by economic recessions or calamities like the pandemic. Over the years …

Linking temporal landmarks to voluntary simplicity: The mediating roles of self-transcendence and self-enhancement

S Chen, H Wei - Journal of Business Ethics, 2023 - Springer
Voluntary simplicity (VS) refers to a minimalistic lifestyle of conscious, ecological, and ethical
consumption, which is conducive to individual, societal, and environmental well-being. For …

Simple= Authentic: The effect of visually simple package design on perceived brand authenticity and brand choice

Y Wang, J Jiang, X Gong, J Wang - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Organizations devote considerable resources to create authentic brand images in response
to declining consumer trust. However, empirical research on the effect of package design …

When less is more: Understanding consumers' responses to minimalist appeals

WF Chen, J Liu - Psychology & Marketing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Minimalism, which encourages people to live with fewer possessions, is an emerging theme
in marketing communication that often appeals to the sustainable ideal of reducing …

Toward a better understanding of key determinants and consequences of masstige consumption

J Boisvert, G Christodoulides, MS Khan - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Consumption of masstige brands has emerged as an important research domain. This study
investigates the key determinants, mediators, and consequences of masstige brands as they …

[HTML][HTML] Goodbye materialism: exploring antecedents of minimalism and its impact on millennials well-being

VK Jain, A Gupta, H Verma - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023 - Springer
The purpose of the study is to explore the antecedents of minimalism and, further, to study
the impact of minimalism on millennials' well-being via a sense of fulfilment. To understand …

[HTML][HTML] Less is more! A pathway to consumer's transcendence

TTT Duong, LV Ngo, J Surachartkumtonkun… - Journal of Retailing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In the 1987 film 'Wall Street', apart from telling the world that “Greed, for lack of a
better word, is good.“, Gordon Gekko, portrayed by Michael Douglas, notably remarked,“I …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship among four lifestyles of workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic (work–life balance, YOLO, minimal life, and staycation) and organizational …

J Kim, S Jung, B Seok, H Choi - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study empirically analyzes the effects of four lifestyles of office workers (work and life
balance, you only live once (YOLO), minimal life, and staycation), which have been changed …

Cutting the clutter: how minimalism drives customer citizenship behaviour within the sharing economy-based services

AKF Rasheed, J Balakrishnan - Kybernetes, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Using the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) theory, this study explores the effect
of religiosity, resource sharing and environmental attitudes on minimalist behaviour in …