How corporate social responsibility can influence brand equity

Abstract

The current chapter embraces a topic which is still underdeveloped in the literature: how Corporate Social Responsibility may or may not influence Brand Equity. Therefore, we conducted a literature review to analyse past studies on this topic. The results allow us to present the core studies and discuss them. In this context, we analyse four major aspects: types of CSR and brand-fit, effects on brand knowledge, effects on consumers’ responses: (purchase intentions) and brand-cause fit (polarized results).