CSR and Customer Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Customer Engagement

Moazzam Abbas, Yongqiang Gao and Sayyed Sadaqat Hussain Shah
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Moazzam Abbas: School of management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Yongqiang Gao: School of management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Sayyed Sadaqat Hussain Shah: School of management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) image positively affects customer outcomes. Despite researchers’ interest in the investigation of company favoring outcomes still, there is a need to further examine the psychological mechanisms that generate these outcomes. Customer engagement (CE) is a state of mind that drives customer behavior. The role of CE has been fully ignored in CSR literature. We suggest that CSR engenders CE and examine the mediating role of CE between CSR and behavioral outcomes. A survey of 455 customers of banking services in Pakistan provided empirical evidence for hypothesis testing. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. We find that CSR image induces CE that gives rise to behavioral responses i.e., customer loyalty, word-of-mouth (WOM) and customer feedback. This is the first study to examine the impact of CSR on customer feedback and to investigate the mediating role of CE.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; customer engagement; customer loyalty; word-of-mouth; customer feedback (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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