The social contribution of enterprises has become one of the critical factors which affects the consumers’ perception to enterprises image, enterprises reliability, and their purchasing intention recently. What the consumers concern is not only econ...
The social contribution of enterprises has become one of the critical factors which affects the consumers’ perception to enterprises image, enterprises reliability, and their purchasing intention recently. What the consumers concern is not only economic strength but also social contribution of the enterprises. CSV aims to create the shared value of social value and economic value through the activities of pursuing profits. The enterprises producing household appliances have recognized the importance of CSV and showed their efforts to their economic activities. But the related academic world and research are still marginal.
This study emphasized on the necessaries of social value and economic value according to consumers’ perception implied by the CSV activities of household appliance enterprises, analyzed the effects of consumers' perceptions to CSV on corporate image, reliability and their purchasing intention, and proposed the strategic implication which could improve the competitiveness of these enterprises.
This research proposed five hypotheses. First, the CSV activities of the enterprises related with household appliances have effects on consumers’ perception to their image. Second, enterprises image has effects on purchasing intention. Third, consumers’ perceptions to CSV activities of these enterprises has effects on their reliability to enterprises. Fourth, enterprises reliability has effects on the purchasing intention. Fifth, enterprises image has effect on enterprises reliability.
The subjects of this study are the adults consumers living in Korea. Aided by the ‘Cloudy Consumer Research Aiding Association’,400 questionnaires were collected through the ‘marketing insight’, which is a research specialized institution. The data was coded and the frequency analysis, main factors analysis, reliability analysis were studied by SPSS 22.0 Program, and the confirmatory analysis, structural equation analysis were conducted by AMOS.
Based on the structural equation analysis, the independent variable, CSV activities had significant effects on enterprises image and enterprises reliability. The parameters, enterprise image and enterprise reliability, had significant effects on all the subordination variables, and the purchasing intention and enterprise image has significant effects on enterprise reliabilities.
Moreover, the consumers’ perceptions to CSV activities of household appliances enterprises showed that the social value was adopted but the economic value was dismissed, and the effects on reliability were significant. Comparing with the economic value, The consumers showed more trust to the enterprises whose activities had social value.
The effects of consumers' perceptions to CSV activities showed significant effects on corporate image, corporate reliability and their purchasing intention. Furthermore, the household appliances enterprises need to initiate CSV activities as soon as quickly, make flexible use of valuable materials, maintain the operation model which can improve the implicit economic and social conditions under the quick changing environment.
Finally, the enterprises should try to satisfy the consumers’ requirements and seek the communicative strategies between the enterprises and consumers. The systems which can match the consumers’ anticipation should be prepared to encourage CSV activities of enterprises. To the standpoint of consumers, the consumers’ perceptions change by their activities, so the CSV activities should satisfy the consumers’ anticipation and their requirements to the substantively flexible method, This research was also considered to be helpful to the profit-making of the household appliances enterprises.