The consciousness on corporate moral hazard is increasing. Consumers are requiring the bigger corporate social responsibility. Meanwhile, in these days of being increased recognition on arranging a plan of being able to reinforce corporate image, CSR(...
The consciousness on corporate moral hazard is increasing. Consumers are requiring the bigger corporate social responsibility. Meanwhile, in these days of being increased recognition on arranging a plan of being able to reinforce corporate image, CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) may be taken as a menas for stepping up positive corporate image. In this dimension, CSR is being recognized as the important marketing communication activity for maintaining relationship with the concerned parties with which enterprise is together.
However, in the face of being the basic take in a research on type and a research on activity theme in CSR activity aiming at a strategic management in CSR activity, it is the real situation that a systematically academic research is still short. Furthermore, there are not many preceding researches on the corporate advertisement with having theme as corporate social responsibility. Also, the analysis of contents in corporate-image advertisement leads not only to being able to grasp with which social responsibility an enterprise is implementing image toward consumers, but also to being capable of using it as a scale of reading social and economic atmosphere at that time when advertisement was executed.
This study analyzed difference in message by classifying it by year, by 5 years, and by unit targeting CSR advertisements with having theme as CSR among image advertisements in the country's 6 companies(Samsung, LG, Hyundai & Kia Motors, SK, KT, POSCO), which had been executed through TV medium for 10 years from 1999 to 2008. Also, it examined a changed in an appeal type, a change in creative strategy, a change in expression mode, and a change in production technique regarding CSR advertisement, and together grasped whether the historical issue is reflected in the advertising theme. To analyze the relative importance that a sample in this study possesses in each item, Frequency Analysis and Crosstabulation Analysis were carried out. For statistical analysis, chi-square test was used. All the statistical verifications were made at the reliable level in 95%. All the collected materials were analyzed by using SPSS 13.0.
Given summarizing results of this study, those are as follows. Significant difference was shown in appeal type, creative strategy, and expression mode for CSR advertisement out of corporate-image advertisements and in the first half and the latter half of analytical period for the expression mode out of production technique. It could be known that the responsible-activity type is bigger in economic responsibility for LG and in benevolent responsibility for SK, KT, POSCO. Also, Samsung and Hyundai & Kia Motors were bigger in benevolent, economic and moral responsibility. In the first half, the benevolent responsibility was overwhelmingly bigger. However, in the latter half of analysis, the moral responsibility was reinforced. Thus, significant difference was shown between the first half and the latter half. Therefore, each company is analyzed to have properly reflected social issue such as executing by changing theme in CSR advertisement according to issue by year such as World Cup and economic crisis.
In other words, given synthesizing these results, the consciousness on corporate social responsibility, which was shown in corporate-image advertisement, is gradually growing. The social environment surrounding enterprise is changing. Thus, it could be analyzed that even the corporate propensity is being changed that a company tries to implement through CSR advertisement. Many companies are developing CSR. Even CSR advertisement based on this is in a rising trend day by day. CSR and CSR advertising strategy, which considered continuously-changing social environment and consumers' characteristics, will be able to maximize effect of strengthening corporate image through CSR.