CONSUMER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MODEL: THE INTERACTION EFFECT OF CNSR AND CSR ON LONG-TERM MARKETING PERFORMANCES

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  • สมบัติ ธำรงสินถาวร คณะการจัดการและการท่องเที่ยว มหาวิทยาลัยบูรพา

Keywords:

Consumer Moral Motivation, Consumer Relational Motivation, Consumer Social Responsibility (Cnsr), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Social Responsibility Norms

Abstract

This study aims to propose and test the consumer social responsibility (CnSR) model with considering the interaction effect of CnSR and corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the long-term marketing performance. This research was survey research designed to collect data from consumers who perceived that they had been used or bought social responsibility products or brands. In the questionnaire, the respondents had to fill in which social responsibility brands or companies they had been bought. The originality of this research is that the findings of this study demonstrated that CnSR model with considering the interaction effects of variables in corporate level and the effects of CnSR antecedents in personal level and in societal level to CnSR is existed. That is, this research found that the interaction effect of CnSR and CSR were partially supported. Next, with considering to antecedents of CnSR, this study found that the consumer instrumental motivation and consumer perception in social responsibility norms affected to CnSR except that the consumer relational motivation and moral motivation partially affected to CnSR. For the research methodology, the nonprobability via convenient sampling was employed. At the end, about 410 samples were collected. In addition, the basic statistics and the structural equation model were employed to test the proposed model in data analysis. For limitation and future research, the future research should generalize into a specific industry and to specific community. In addition, to generate more beneficial CnSR measures in Thailand context, the qualitative research should be conducted.

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30.06.2017

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ธำรงสินถาวร ส. CONSUMER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MODEL: THE INTERACTION EFFECT OF CNSR AND CSR ON LONG-TERM MARKETING PERFORMANCES. RMUTT Global Business and Economics Review, Pathum Thani, Thailand, v. 12, n. 1, p. 1–22, 2017. Disponível em: https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/RMUTT-Gber/article/view/241933. Acesso em: 6 may. 2024.

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