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The CSR paradox: when a social responsibility campaign can tarnish a brand

The CSR paradox: when a social responsibility campaign can tarnish a brand The purpose of this paper is to explore the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradox, when a social campaign hurts the sponsoring brand even while raising concern for the campaign issue.Design/methodology/approachA between-subjects experiment tested the effects of regulatory frames, issue involvement and collective efficacy on brand attitude, attitude toward the campaign messages, and concern for the issue.FindingsA promotion-oriented frame (vs prevention-oriented frame) produced a more unfavorable brand attitude among consumers who had low levels of collective efficacy, even though the promotion-oriented frame generated strong concern for the issue itself. Attitudes toward the campaign messages remained favorable, suggesting that the negative effect of message frames was directly specifically at the brand.Originality/valueUsing real-world campaign materials demonstrated that a firm’s CSR campaign efforts can create important brand risks. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Corporate Communications An International Journal Emerald Publishing

The CSR paradox: when a social responsibility campaign can tarnish a brand

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
1356-3289
DOI
10.1108/ccij-08-2018-0090
Publisher site
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradox, when a social campaign hurts the sponsoring brand even while raising concern for the campaign issue.Design/methodology/approachA between-subjects experiment tested the effects of regulatory frames, issue involvement and collective efficacy on brand attitude, attitude toward the campaign messages, and concern for the issue.FindingsA promotion-oriented frame (vs prevention-oriented frame) produced a more unfavorable brand attitude among consumers who had low levels of collective efficacy, even though the promotion-oriented frame generated strong concern for the issue itself. Attitudes toward the campaign messages remained favorable, suggesting that the negative effect of message frames was directly specifically at the brand.Originality/valueUsing real-world campaign materials demonstrated that a firm’s CSR campaign efforts can create important brand risks.

Journal

Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Feb 4, 2019

Keywords: Brand attitude; Corporate social responsibility; Brand negativity; Regulatory framing

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