Cause-Related Marketing and Trust: Empirical Evidence on Pinkwashing

Journal title MERCATI & COMPETITIVITÀ
Author/s Patrizia de Luca, Gabriella Schoier, Alice Vessio
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/2
Language English Pages 23 P. 51-73 File size 485 KB
DOI 10.3280/MC2017-002004
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Over the past several years, cause-related marketing (CRM) has become an important tool that many companies use to differentiate themselves from competitors. However, this type of marketing has also received criticism. Consumers are becoming increasingly skeptical about the authenticity of these initiatives because some companies attempt to improve their image by hiding information that may be perceived as negative. Marketing literature has paid more attention to environmental CRM than to initiatives associated with other issues such as health and those related to women’s health. However, in recent years, a growing number of companies have implemented actions to support these concerns. This paper aims to contribute to this field by focusing on CRM initiatives to fund breast-cancer research and on their misrepresentations. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods via a semistructured questionnaire, this study confirms the influence of pinkwashing on consumer trust, consumer-perceived risk, and consumer confusion.

Keywords: Cause-related marketing, pinkwashing, trust, perceived risk, consumer confusion, quantitative analysis

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Patrizia de Luca, Gabriella Schoier, Alice Vessio, Cause-Related Marketing and Trust: Empirical Evidence on Pinkwashing in "MERCATI & COMPETITIVITÀ" 2/2017, pp 51-73, DOI: 10.3280/MC2017-002004