| Title | Believing in change: The role of implicit theory on consumer's perception of the brand's corporate social responsibility message |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 71579 |
| Authors | Kim, TH; Kim, NL |
| Title | Believing in change: The role of implicit theory on consumer's perception of the brand's corporate social responsibility message |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | Journal Of Consumer Behaviour, 22.0, 6 |
| Abstract | With the sustainable consumption paradigms, corporate social responsibilities (CSR) across industries have been under scrutiny. However, little research exists on how brand's business model and consumers' characteristics are intertwined to influence CSR evaluation. Our study aims to examine how the brand type (e.g., fast vs. slow business model) influences the relationships among CSR-brand fit, authenticity, and skepticism, thus improving attitudes toward the brand. In addition, based on the implicit theory, how the consumer's incremental mindset (vs. entity) influences a brand's CSR evaluations are studied. Through two studies, our findings demonstrate consumers perceived a higher CSR-brand fit for the slow fashion/food brand than the fast fashion/food brand. A higher CSR-brand fit heightened the CSR authenticity and alleviated skepticism, which in turn resulted in positive brand evaluations. Importantly, incremental mindsets weakened the effect of brand type on CSR-brand fit. As one of the first studies to examine the relationship between consumers' implicit theory orientation and a brand's CSR message, our findings demonstrate that an incremental mindset is a powerful consumer characteristic in evaluating a brand's CSR activities that are less congruent with the brand's established business model. |
| https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/cb.2211 |
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