Search results for "Responsibility"

Fair trade and global cognitive orientation: a focus on Spanish fair trade consumers

2007

In the past few years, there has been an increase in the ‘ethical consumer’, characterized by more reflexive values like solidarity, social responsibility, multiculturalism and ecology. This idea has found support in the appearance and development of proposals like fair trade, along with others, such as responsible consumption, the recycling business or sustainable development. In a parallel way, also during the past few years, various analysts have pointed out that the phenomenon of globalization is changing not only the aspect of the world but also our way of perceiving it, which is progressively becoming a ‘global orientation’. In the framework of these two tendencies, this paper examine…

Do Consumers Really Care about Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility When Developing Attitudes toward a Brand?

2021

The present study assesses the relationship between the dimensions of perceived corporate social responsibility (PCSR) and consumer perceptions about a brand. The approach taken herein for PCSR is ...

Corporate social performance as antecedent of consumer's brand perception

2011

The purpose of this article is to develop a model that closely examines the consequences of social and environmental corporate action. This is suggested by an increasing need for accomplishing an integrative view on business activities and social aims – the so-called corporate social responsibility – especially in the current environmentally turbulent time and a rising socially conscious consumer population. But doing business is often associated with brand- or corporate misconduct as well. Hence, corporate social responsibility forms the positive component of corporate social performance (CSP), consequently a favorable brand- or company behavior. Corresponding, corporate social irresponsib…

Dual nature of cause‐brand fit

2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the dual nature of social cause‐brand fit by studying the influence of two cause‐brand fit categories, functional fit and image fit, on the formation of brand corporate social responsibility consumer perception (CSR perception) in a cause‐brand alliance (CBA) context.Design/methodology/approachA theoretical model is proposed, based on previous research, which explains the effect of functional fit and image fit on altruistic attributions, brand credibility and CSR image; these relationships were assessed through structural equation modelling. The model was estimated with a sample of 299 Spanish consumers of toiletries and cosmetics products, ran…

Cause-related marketing influence on consumer responses: The moderating effect of cause–brand fit

2012

The traditional focus on the study of cause–brand fit in cause-related marketing (CrM) is that it is a mediator variable between consumer perceptions and subsequent responses. However, the literature is not conclusive on this point. This study adopts a new perspective, considering cause–brand fit as a moderator variable rather than a direct antecedent to consumer evaluations of CrM. Thus, the main objective of this research is to examine the moderator role of cause–brand fit in the influence of two corporate associations elicited in CrM (corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate ability (CA) associations) on brand attitude and two behavioural consumer responses (purchase intent an…

Dimensionalidad De La Responsabilidad Social Empresarial Percibida Y Sus Efectos Sobre La Imagen Y La Reputación: Una Aproximación Desde El Modelo De…

2008

ResumenLa literatura de marketing sugiere que las acciones y programas de responsabilidad social empresarial podrían mejorar la imagen y la reputación de las empresas ante los ojos de sus consumidores y ser una importante fuente de ventaja competitiva para las mismas. Sin embargo, poco se sabe acerca las percepciones de estos stakeholders al respecto y sobre sus efectos en dichas variables. Para conocerlos, se llevó a cabo una revisión de la literatura, en donde se planteo un modelo teórico de relaciones estructurales el cual es contrastado empíricamente a través del análisis de su estructura de covarianzas. Para tal objetivo, se utiliza una muestra de 358 consumidores jóvenes de telefonía …

2021

Most coaches and instructors would like to teach more than just sport skills to their athletes and children. However, to promote athletes’ or children’s holistic development and teach them to take responsibility and lead, requires the coaches and instructors to first master the skills themselves. Therefore, feasible, high quality leadership training programs where coaches and physical activity instructors are taught to teach and share leadership are needed. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the feasibility of a leadership training program to optimize it and to determine whether to proceed with its evaluation. In the leadership training program, eight Finnish novice physical activ…

Psychological support and psychotherapy via digital devices in Covid-19 emergency time: Some critical issues

2020

The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting fear, quarantine and lockdown measures implemented in Italy and other countries to contain the risk of contagion have seriously impacted the mental health of a large number of people. The need to offer psychological and psychotherapeutic support to these people, while respecting the government’s pressing calls to “stay home”, have led many psychologists and psychotherapists, both in the public and private sectors, to provide their professional services via teleconference, telephone, smartphone, etc. The aim of this work is to highlight some critical issues related to the sudden switch from the traditional method of providing psychological services to…

Miradas letradas, letras ad-miradas. Una conversación con el mundo social

2019

El presente texto plantea una aproximación al concepto de miradas le- tradas en contextos educativos utilizando como recurso expresivo la metáfora de la conversación. Las miradas letradas quedan caracterizadas como estrategias que bus- can reconfigurar nuevas formas de leer, conocer y expresar la realidad social.Tras esta caracterización, la discusión se centra en la necesidad de generar nuevos entor- nos de aprendizaje mediante espacios le- trados, que estimulen y sean favorables a la lectura y a la escritura. La conclusión sostiene que estos entornos requieren la transformación de las instituciones edu- cativas y culturales en lugares diferentes a los que hasta ahora resultaban hab…

Interrelations between competitiveness and responsibility at macro and micro level

2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to emphasize that the growing of competitiveness at any level may be possible through more responsibility (business ethics) on the one hand and less corruption (as lack of business ethics) on the other.Design/methodology/approachThe objective of the paper is to identify the double‐way relationships between competitiveness and the responsible (beyond ethics) behaviour. In order to do this, the authors used correlation indexes CORREL and R2 and the graphic representation able to illustrate the above‐mentioned interrelations.FindingsThe authors observed that there is a strong and direct correlation between GCI, RCI and CPI – at national level, and six possib…