Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox

The current research examines whether and when cause marketing, whereby firms link product sales to the support of a charity or cause, can increase charitable giving and happiness. Previous research suggests that cause marketing might reduce charitable giving and happiness among consumers. However,...

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Main Authors: hinhyoung Lee, Youjae Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Marketing Association 2017-10-01
Series:Asia Marketing Journal
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Online Access:https://amj.kma.re.kr/journal/vol19/iss3/1/
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description The current research examines whether and when cause marketing, whereby firms link product sales to the support of a charity or cause, can increase charitable giving and happiness. Previous research suggests that cause marketing might reduce charitable giving and happiness among consumers. However, the present research finds the opposite result by introducing nostalgia as a moderator; cause marketing can enhance consumers’ charity giving when their nostalgia is triggered. Moreover, results show that charitable giving increased by cause marketing improves feelings of happiness, suggesting that people view charitable behavior as a means of enhancing happiness. Interestingly, charitable giving and happiness are promoted by the situational priming of nostalgic events, but not by chronic individual differences such as nostalgia proneness.
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spelling doaj.art-f2b1c96cb2b943da8140c1c68e8755042022-12-22T03:32:48ZengKorean Marketing AssociationAsia Marketing Journal1598-78682765-65002017-10-0119311710.15830/amj.2017.19.3.1Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradoxhinhyoung Lee0Youjae Yi 1College of Business Administration, Seoul National UniversityCollege of Business Administration, Seoul National UniversityThe current research examines whether and when cause marketing, whereby firms link product sales to the support of a charity or cause, can increase charitable giving and happiness. Previous research suggests that cause marketing might reduce charitable giving and happiness among consumers. However, the present research finds the opposite result by introducing nostalgia as a moderator; cause marketing can enhance consumers’ charity giving when their nostalgia is triggered. Moreover, results show that charitable giving increased by cause marketing improves feelings of happiness, suggesting that people view charitable behavior as a means of enhancing happiness. Interestingly, charitable giving and happiness are promoted by the situational priming of nostalgic events, but not by chronic individual differences such as nostalgia proneness.https://amj.kma.re.kr/journal/vol19/iss3/1/cause marketingcause marketing paradoxnostalgiacharitable givinghappiness
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cause marketing paradox
nostalgia
charitable giving
happiness
title Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox
title_full Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox
title_fullStr Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox
title_full_unstemmed Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox
title_short Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox
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topic cause marketing
cause marketing paradox
nostalgia
charitable giving
happiness
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