Cause related marketing (CRM) is a strategy that aims to communicate a company’s striv- ing for corporate social responsibility and to improve brand image. A strategy to increase consumers’ emotional involvement toward a product–cause association is to describe the cause in vivid terms. In two experiments we investigated how vivid messages might increase the effectiveness of CRM strategy. We sought to demonstrate that a vivid descrip- tion of the cause could influence consumers’ preferences and trust in the effective use of money collected by selling the product. Experiment 1 results showed that individuals prefer products associated with a vivid message of the social cause rather than products associ- ated with a pallid message. Experiment 2 results suggested that vivid messages induce more positive affective reactions and a higher trust in the effective use of money than pallid ones. In the final section, the implications of CRM for corporate social responsibility are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

A strategy to communicate corporate social responsabilities: Cause related marketing and its dark side

RUBALTELLI, ENRICO;
2009

Abstract

Cause related marketing (CRM) is a strategy that aims to communicate a company’s striv- ing for corporate social responsibility and to improve brand image. A strategy to increase consumers’ emotional involvement toward a product–cause association is to describe the cause in vivid terms. In two experiments we investigated how vivid messages might increase the effectiveness of CRM strategy. We sought to demonstrate that a vivid descrip- tion of the cause could influence consumers’ preferences and trust in the effective use of money collected by selling the product. Experiment 1 results showed that individuals prefer products associated with a vivid message of the social cause rather than products associ- ated with a pallid message. Experiment 2 results suggested that vivid messages induce more positive affective reactions and a higher trust in the effective use of money than pallid ones. In the final section, the implications of CRM for corporate social responsibility are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
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