Corporations have recognized and developed CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) for coexistence between public interest and corporate management in the latest intensified global competition. They have carried out CRM(Cause-Related Marketing) by donati...
Corporations have recognized and developed CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) for coexistence between public interest and corporate management in the latest intensified global competition. They have carried out CRM(Cause-Related Marketing) by donating some of their profits for enhancing the efforts of corporate social responsibility activities.
In this study, I have tried to search the efforts on corporate attitude about the advertisement frame[donation level, purchase motivation(hedonic vs. utilitarian), corporate-to-CRM fit, regulatory focus] of CRM, the mediating role of the authenticity(the authenticity of CRM, the authenticity of corporate), and the moderating role on the altruism and the CRM involvement.
In order to achieve this research, I chose four brands(Samdasu, World-cone, Samsung laptop, Louis Vuitton bag), developed 32 types of questionnaire, and did a survey targeting men and women from 20s to 50s living in Daegu and Gumi. As a result, I have collected total 1,600 copies of questionnaire, obtained total 1,025 sincere response data, 268 copies with missing items and 307 copies with insincere replies, and analyzed research hypothesis by AMOS.
The summaries of research results are as follows:
1) The higher donation level is, the more promotion focus frame is, and the higher fit of corporate-CRM is, the more the authenticity about CRM appeared high.
2) It is confirmed that altruism moderate the relation between CRM frame and its authenticity.
3) The higher the authenticity about CRM is, the more the authenticity of corporations is perceived.
4) The higher the authenticity of CRM is, the more the attitude toward CRM is favored.
5) The involvement about CRM moderated the effect between the authenticity of CRM and attitude toward CRM.
6) The higher the authenticity of corporations gets, the better the attitude toward corporations gets.
7) The better the attitude toward CRM gets, the better the attitude toward corporations gets.
These results are timely for market 3.0 age where the authenticity of CRM is regarded important, and they suggest that they can not get effects unless CRM are connected to its authenticity. Therefore, the marketing hands-on workers must consider the authenticity of CRM primarily when they perform CRM. They must consider donation level, regulation focus, purchase motivation, and corporate-to-public suitability when they form the advertisement frame of CRM.