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Journal of Business Ethics
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics 3/2014

01.05.2014

Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience

verfasst von: Rommel O. Salvador, Altaf Merchant, Elizabeth A. Alexander

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2014

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Abstract

Normative and historical arguments support the idea that religion potentially shapes decisions to support fair trade products. That said, the question of how religion influences organizational decision-makers to purchase fair trade products in a business-to-business context has remained largely unaddressed. This research examines the interactive effect of individual religious commitment and contextual religious salience on an individual’s willingness to pay a price premium for a fair trade product, when buying on behalf of an organization. Findings from two experimental studies (involving 75 and 87 working individuals, respectively) reveal that the effect of a decision-maker’s religious commitment on his or her willingness to pay a price premium, for the purchase of a fair trade product on behalf of an organization, is moderated by the contextual salience of religion. Specifically, when religion is highly salient in the organizational context, religious commitment is positively related to the decision-maker’s willingness to pay a premium for the fair trade product; when contextual religious salience is low, religious commitment and willingness to pay a premium are unrelated. Implications for theory and practice are presented.
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Following extant research in behavioral ethics (e.g., Tenbrunsel and Smith-Crowe 2008), we use the terms “ethical” and “moral” interchangeably.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Faith and Fair Trade: The Moderating Role of Contextual Religious Salience
verfasst von
Rommel O. Salvador
Altaf Merchant
Elizabeth A. Alexander
Publikationsdatum
01.05.2014
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1728-9

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