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Moral Capital or Moral Expectations? Disentangling the Role of Prior CSR Engagement in Driving Consumers' Reactions to Corporate Scandals

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Abstract

The current research investigates how consumers respond to firms that have been engaged in CSR but are nowexperiencing a corporate scandal and shows (a) that CSR activities in the same domain as the corporate scandal aggravateits negative consequences, whereas CSR activities in another domain may mitigate its negative consequences and (b) that thisrelationship is mediated by differences in consumers’ perceptions of trust and corporate hypocrisy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the AMA Winter Academic Conference, Volume 30
Editors American Marketing Association (AMA)
Place of PublicationChicago, Illinois
Pages249 - 250
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

  • 502019 Marketing
  • 501002 Applied psychology

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