CSR, Co-Creation and Green Consumer Loyalty: Are Green Banking Initiatives Important? A Moderated Mediation Approach from an Emerging Economy

Huidong Sun, Mustafa Raza Rabbani, Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Safdar Sial, Guping Cheng, Malik Zia-Ud-Din and Qinghua Fu
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Huidong Sun: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Mustafa Raza Rabbani: Department of Finance and Accounting, College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Riffa 40434, Bahrain
Naveed Ahmad: UCP Business School, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Muhammad Safdar Sial: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
Guping Cheng: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Malik Zia-Ud-Din: Faculty of Law, Islamia University, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan
Qinghua Fu: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-22

Abstract: The homogenization of the banking segment has made it difficult for banking institutions to practice the quality of services that are needed in order to retain consumers. Thus, these days, finding ways to increase consumer loyalty—especially green loyalty—has become a challenge for the banking industry around the planet. Research has long acknowledged that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic concern that could help organizations to increase consumer loyalty. However, the impact of CSR practices on green consumer loyalty is rarely addressed in the extant literature. Hence, the present research investigated the impact of CSR on green consumer loyalty with the mediating effect of co-creation in the banking industry of Pakistan. The study also introduced green banking initiatives as a moderator between the mediated relation of CSR and green consumer loyalty, with the intention that such a moderator would strengthen this indirect relationship. The structural equation modeling technique was used for the data analysis. The results confirm that CSR enhances consumer loyalty, and that co-creation partially mediates this relationship. Furthermore, green banking initiatives further strengthen this relation. The results of the current survey could help banking institutions learn how they can develop core strategic considerations based on the integration of CSR co-creation and green banking initiatives.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; green consumer loyalty; co-creation; bank; Pakistan; sustainability; green banking initiatives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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