Sustainability: Opportunities and challenges for brands
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Introduction
Corporate social sustainability characterises considerable investment for companies. As part of their sustainability-related initiatives, companies support global social causes related to, for instance, poverty, environmental change, peace and justice. Such cause-related efforts of companies are often promoted via advertising campaigns appealing to consumers’ guilt emotion. Using such campaigns, companies seek to encourage consumer identification with the brand as well as purchasing behaviour. A key question is how consumers respond to guilt-arousing messages in cause-related advertising. Crucially, what...