Section 94 of the Act refers to the prevention of unfair trade practices in e-commerce and direct selling and also deals with protection of interest and rights of consumers. Further, the Act has also introduced a vital concept of "electronic service provider" which is defined as a person who...
Section 40 of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 prohibits various forms of "unconscionable conduct" by a supplier. Its focus is essentially on various improper ways in which the will of the consumer can be influenced. It can be said that it is concerned with procedural unfairness, which...
What is state commission under Consumer Protection Act? The preamble to this Act reads as follows:An Act to provide for better protection of the interests of the consumersand to make provisions for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumers disputes...
Which institutions (e.g., sales channels like retailing or e-commerce, trade vs. consumer protection, advertising or social media) best represent consumerist ideologies? Finally, what new positive ideas, ideals, and institutions do consumers imagine as representing their desires (e.g., virtual ...
“Strongly agree”). The measure achieved adequate values for Cronbach’s alpha (α = 0.93) (Nunnally,1978) and average variance extracted (AVE = 0.71) (Fornell & Larcker,1981). Furthermore, we controlled for sustainable consumption involvement (SCI; “I take initiatives to act in ...
such that people might be more likely to act prosocially after they have acted unethically (Kalanthroff et al.,2017; Wang et al.,2021).Footnote1With Study 2, we move on to test the predicted mediating role of anger and the effect of firm controllability on perceived CSI harm that af...
Increasing and changing legislation from institutions such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act in the United States can coincide with major legal and regulatory costs to the retailer (Thomas 2020). Even further, the majority...
Video games as exploitative monetized services: An examination of game patents from a consumer protection perspective Computers in Human Behavior, 101 (2019), pp. 131-143 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Konana and Balasubramanian, 2005 P. Konana, S. Balasubramanian The social—...
it is likely to produce negative thoughts resulting in an unfavourable attitude towards the product.Level of Emotional ArousalHighly involved consumers are more emotional than less involved consumers. The highly involved react more strongly to the product-related information which may act for or against...
Abstract Awareness of health and nutrition has led to the development of “functional foods” which is a new approach to achieve healthier status thus reducing the risk of diseases. Meat has been highly exploited as a functional ingredient/food in recent years wherein meat has either been modifie...