Doctoral course in sustainable marketing

LOURIM Louvain-La-Neuve, Mons

February 07, 2022

February 11, 2022

10.30 am - 12.30 pm & 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm

Louvain-la-Neuve

DOYEN 21

 

Doctoral course in Sustainable Marketing by Prof. John THØGERSEN

Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences

 

« Sustainable Marketing »

 

Content:
Theories, phenomena with a sustainable CB perspective that have been considered and research in general that has been conducted in the domain.

Programme :

 

Lecture 1

7 Feb, 10.30 am - 12.30 pm, @Doyen 21, 

 

Topic

Introduction to sustainability marketing

 

Reading assignment

  • Peattie, K. (2015). Sustainability marketing. In L. A. Reisch & J. Thøgersen (Eds.), Handbook of research on sustainable consumption (pp. 101-117). Edward Elgar.
  • Creutzig, F., Roy, J., Lamb, W. F., Azevedo, I. M. L., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dalkmann, H., . . . Weber, E. U. (2018). Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change. Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 268-271.
 

 

 

Lecture 2

7 Feb, 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm, @Doyen 21

 

Topic

(Un)sustainable consumer behaviour

 

Reading assignment

  • Thøgersen, J. (2014). Unsustainable consumption: Basic causes and implications for policy. European Psychologist, 19, 84-95.
  • Thøgersen, J. (2021). Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 42, 9-14.
 

 

Research seminar for all faculty/researchers

9 Feb 2.00-4.00 pm, @Doyen 21

 

Topic

Behavioral spillover in the circular economy: The importance of consumer goals

 

 

One-to-One

8 or 9 Feb am or pm

Topic

PhD’s project

 

 

Lecture 3

10 Feb, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm, @Doyen 21

 

Topic

The dynamics of consumption - towards a sustainable consumption pattern?

 

Reading assignment

  • Chitnis, M., Sorrell, S., Druckman, A., Firth, S. K., & Jackson, T. (2013). Turning lights into flights: Estimating direct and indirect rebound effects for UK households. Energy Policy, 55, 234-250.
  • Lanzini, P., & Thøgersen, J. (2014). Behavioural spillover in the environmental domain: An intervention study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 40, 381-390.
  • Juhl, H. J., Fenger, M. H. J., & Thøgersen, J. (2017). Will the consistent organic food consumer step forward? An empirical analysis. Journal of Consumer Research, 44, 519-535.
 

 

Lecture 4

10 Feb, 2.00 pm - 4.30 pm, @Doyen 21

 

Topic

”Nudging” sustainable consumer choices

 

Reading assignment

  • Ölander, F., & Thøgersen, J. (2014). Informing versus nudging in environmental policy. Journal of Consumer Policy, 37, 341-356.
  • McKenzie-Mohr, D., & Schultz, P. W. (2014). Choosing effective behavior change tools. Social Marketing Quarterly, 20(1), 35-46.
 

 

 

Lecture 5

11 Feb, 10.30 am - 12.30 pm, @Doyen 21

 

Topic

Publish or Perish: Finding the right outlet for your work and optimizing its chances of being published

 

Reading assignment

  • Bem, D.J. (2003). Writing the Empirical Journal Article. Cornell University (google it)
  • Stewart, D. W. (2008). Academic publishing in marketing: best and worst practices. European Business Review, 20(5), 421-434.
  • Siddaway, A. P., Wood, A. M., & Hedges, L. V. (2019). How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses. Annual Review of Psychology, 70(1), 747-770.

 

 

 

Suggested additional readings

  • Belz, F.-M., & Peattie, K. (2012). Sustainability Marketing. A Global Perspective (2nd ed). West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons.

  • Ottman, J. (2011). The New Rules of Green Marketing: Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited.

 

Venue:
LLN - Doyen 21

Student can attend online if (and only if) in quarantine. Please email Laura Vecchiato if you're quanrantined and want to follow the course to get the info. 

 

Registrations are closed

To know more about John THØGERSEN, please check his page  ►►►

In all instance, John has a very large expertise in many domains revolving around

  • Consumer behaviour
  • Social and environmental marketing
  • Consumer and environmental protection
  • Spillover and the generalization of environmentally responsible behaviour
  • The role of social and moral norms for environmentally responsible behaviour
  • Inter-generational transfer of pro-environmental values, attitudes and behaviour
  • Media influences on consumer perceptions, attitudes and behaviour

He is also Member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Psychology, published by Frontiers; Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Environmental Psychology, published by Elsevier and Editor of Journal of Consumer Policy, published by Springer. He reviews around 12-15 papers a year for other journals.