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Is A Cause-Related Self-Prevention Campaign A Good Csr Strategy?, Jihye Park
Is A Cause-Related Self-Prevention Campaign A Good Csr Strategy?, Jihye Park
Asia Marketing Journal
This paper addresses the central issue of whether it is effective for a firm to discourage the purchase of its own product in order to support a social cause. The objectives of this study were: a) to examine whether a cause-related self-prevention ad would stimulate more positive evaluations compared to promotional ad, particularly when the product category is more negatively socially accepted; and 2) to determine if a negative attitude toward the product could induce a boomerang effect of a self-prevention ad. Results from three experiments revealed that socially responsible prevention campaigns against firm’s own product may be more effective …