1st Edition

Social and Environmental Issues in Advertising

Edited By Sukki Yoon, Sangdo Oh Copyright 2016
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

In the past few decades, attention has turned to the need to apply commercial marketing concepts, knowledge, and techniques to promote goods, services, and actions that enhance consumer well-being and social welfare through socially and environmentally responsible advertising, for example, recycling promotions. Critics argue, however, that for-profit advertisers who endorse social responsibility... Read more

Introduction: Social and environmental issues in advertising Sukki Yoon and Sangdo Oh

1. Pro-environment advertising messages: the role of regulatory focus Namita Bhatnagar and Jane McKay-Nesbitt

2. How consumer knowledge shapes green consumption: an empirical study on voluntary carbon offsetting Yohan Kim, Sunyoung Yun, Joosung Lee and Eunju Ko

3. ‘Kid tested, mother approved’: the relationship between advertising expenditures and ‘most-loved’ brands Kacy K. Kim, Jerome D. Williams and Gary B. Wilcox

4. Do bans on illuminated on-premise signs matter? Balancing environmental impact with the impact on businesses Charles R. Taylor and Matthew E. Sarkees

5. Impact of fear appeals on pro-environmental behaviour and crucial determinants Mei-Fang Chen

6. Effort investment in persuasiveness: a comparative study of environmental advertising in the United States and Korea Sukki Yoon, Yeonshin Kim and Tae Hyun Baek

7. The effect of non-stereotypical gender role advertising on consumer evaluation Kyounghee Chu, Doo-Hee Lee and Ji Yoon Kim

8. In distrust of merits: the negative effects of astroturfs on people’s prosocial behaviors Jungyun Kang, Hyungsin Kim, Hosang Chu, Charles H. Cho and Hakkyun Kim

9. Empowering social change through advertising co-creation: the roles of source disclosure, sympathy and personal involvement Davide C. Orazi, Liliana L. Bove and Jing Lei

Biography

Sukki Yoon teaches marketing at Bryant University, Rhode Island, USA. He has been a visiting scholar at Grey Worldwide and Harvard University, and a consultant at firms and government agencies in both the USA and Korea.

Sangdo Oh teaches marketing at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and has previously taught at the University of Illinois and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology.