In the modern society, the company's interest of determinating their idea tends to move to long-term result from short-term one. It is been considering CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) Activities of contribution the community like a charitable don...
In the modern society, the company's interest of determinating their idea tends to move to long-term result from short-term one. It is been considering CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) Activities of contribution the community like a charitable donation and a service of protecting environment as the important competitiveness that could appeal the company image.
Generally, CSR Activities are known to improve corporate image and increase consumer purchase intention. Specially Consumer participation type's CSR activities like cause-related marketing are an CSR Activities that Consumer is participated in Company's CSR activities immediately.
This paper was aimed to investigate how Consumer participation type's CSR activities effect on consumer attitude toward Company and consumer attitude toward product.
Consumer participation type's CSR activities effect on corporate image and purchase intention varied depending on such variables as 'the consumer support of the CSR activities', 'corporate image fit with CSR activities', and 'the consumer satisfaction on the lines of participation in CSR activities'
Through this research, I will examine how 'the consumer support of the CSR activities', 'corporate image fit with CSR activities', and 'the consumer satisfaction on the lines of participation in CSR activities' affects consumer-company identification, corporate image improvement and purchase intention.
This study carries out both literature review and empirical survey. After examining on CSR, cause related marketing, Organizational identity, C-C(Consumer-Company) identification and the variables affecting CSR activities's influence on corporate attitude, product attitude. I establish a research model to verify a number of hypotheses, which will be dealt with in later chapters. Under empirical survey, questionnaires analyzed through SPSS 10.0
Major finding of this research are as follows.
First, ‘the consumer support of the CSR activities', previously examined, is found to positively affects C-C identification.
Second, ‘the consumer satisfaction on the lines of participation in CSR activities' is found to positively affects C-C identification.
Third, C-C identification is found to positively affects corporate image improvement and purchase intention.
Fourth, Previously examined, Positive corporate image is found to positively affects purchase intention.