Overcoming the ‘Window Dressing’ Effect: Mitigating the Negative Effects of Inherent Skepticism Towards Corporate Social Responsibility

As more and more instances of corporate hypocrisy become public, consumers have developed an inherent general skepticism towards firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) claims. As CSR skepticism bears heavily on consumers’ attitudes and behavior, this paper draws from Construal Level Theory to...

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Authors: Connors, Scott (Author) ; Anderson-MacDonald, Stephen (Author) ; Thomson, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2017
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 145, Issue: 3, Pages: 599-621
Further subjects:B Concreteness
B Corporate social responsibility
B Vividness
B Construal level theory
B Scepticism
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