Table 4.

Caring in leading marketing journals

Care aspect Values How care informs SLR Identified care deficits 
Caring aboutAttentiveness Research questions and topics that receive attentionContextualised consumer experiences have been neglected
   Non-US based research has received little attention
   Large aspects of the food system ignored in deference to “choice” moments 
Caring forResponsibility How marketing knowledge has been developed from selected focusDominance of psychological frameworks and theories and exclusion of other theoretical traditions
   Food reduced to a context among others
Care giving Competence How the identified topics have been studied Dominance of positivist, experimental design leads to narrow approach to problem solving
   Samples dominated by young, privileged, Western consumers under-representing alternative and vulnerable perspectives
Caring with Benevolence towards more abstract entities Implications of the produced knowledge Academia, manufactured food and retailing industry are privileged interlocutors
   Other actors such as policy makers, consumer groups and activists and producers are not considered
Source(s): Authors’ own work

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