Current consumption patterns in the Global North are unsustainable across environmental, social, and economic dimensions. To promote more sustainable consumer behavior, emotional priming on social media has become an increasingly popular tool. In this paper, we mimic social media content to test...

Objective: This article looks at consumer behaviour in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market in response to actions undertaken by organisations to create shared value. The main objectives of the paper are twofold: to explore the concept of creating shared value (CSV), and explain the...

Cause-related marketing (CRM) has become a prominent tactic companies use to match their commercial goals with social causes. This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of CRM research, utilising a dataset comprising 425 documents sourced from the Scopus database, encompassing publications...

The increasing reliance on news articles and advertising to communicate cause-related marketing (CRM) initiatives highlights a critical gap in understanding their effects on brand equity, especially post-natural disasters. This study investigates the role of brand resonance as a mediator and...

This research develops and validates scales based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to measure purchase intention towards products associated with cause-related marketing (CRM) campaigns in the South Asian context. Despite few studies using global measures of TPB in specific contexts to...

This study examines how companies can better manage consumer attributions (ie, perceived company underlying motives) to corporate social responsibility (CSR) through CSR-related com-munications. Specifically, the article focuses on cause-related marketing (CRM) initiatives and investigates how...

This article adds to extant research by investigating the association between consumers’ attitudes towards cause-related marketing (CRM) and brand resonance during Covid-19 crisis. It specifically proposes the moderating effect of advertising and news articles’ effectiveness in the indirect...

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...

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...