This study clarifies consumers' defense mechanisms and message elaboration to highlight the connection between consumer engagement with messages and brand success. Two eye-tracking experiments tested whether skepticism toward companies' cause-related marketing (CRM) initiatives would lead to...

Cause-related marketing (CRM) skepticism significantly affects consumers' attitudes and behavioral intentions. Thus, this study draws from construal-level theory to identify how the mediating role of message engagement curbs CRM skepticism. An online experiment indicated that matching skeptical...

The purpose of the study is to contribute in the literature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by analyzing how well the customers identifies themselves with the ethics and values of the company i.e. various CSR activities (Sponsorship, Cause-Related Marketing and Philanthropy) and its...

Increasing competition in the marketplace makes it difficult to differentiate brand based on the traditional attributes such as price and quality alone. Other attributes of a brand such as ethical and compassionate are becoming more important. “Good” brand or brand that is associated with...

Purpose – One purpose of this paper is to examine several factors that potentially influence a consumer's purchasing decision to participate in cause-related marketing (CRM) program in the Pakistani context. The other is to empirically test the hypothesized relationship between cause's...

Research into consumer responses to cause-related marketing (CrM) has grown in recent years. Through CrM social or environmental commitment of companies can be visible to its consumers and at the same time enhance brand equity and sales by differentiating their brands on the basis of association...

Cause-related marketing (CrM) is helpful to marketers in two aspects one is better Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and other is better commercial advantage as it increase brand awareness and also increases their understanding about CSR related activities. This research carried out in...