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Compassion, Inc.
How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help
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2012
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-26652-0 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
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Outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. This title takes us through the ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. It discusses companies that truly make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to.
Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing - American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74 per cent. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates in this penetrating analysis why the answer is a resounding "No"! In "Compassion, Inc", she outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. She takes us through the unseen ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. She also discusses companies that truly do make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to.
Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing - American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74 per cent. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates in this penetrating analysis why the answer is a resounding "No"! In "Compassion, Inc", she outlines how cause-related marketing desensitizes the public by putting a pleasant face on complex problems. She takes us through the unseen ways in which large sums of consumer dollars go into corporate coffers rather than helping the less fortunate. She also discusses companies that truly do make the world a better place, and those that just pretend to.
Mara Einstein is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College. She is the author of Brands of Faith: Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age. She has worked as a senior marketing executive in both broadcast and cable television as well as at major advertising agencies.
Preface 1 Value Brands ... They Ain't What They Used to Be 2 How Corporations Co-Opt Caring: Strategic Philanthropy, Cause-Related Marketing, and Corporate Social Responsibility 3 The Birth of the Hypercharity and the Rise of "Charitainment" 4 The Consequences of Co-Opting Compassion 5 Shopping Is Not Philanthropy. Period. 6 Can Companies Make a Difference? 7 We Are Not Consumers Notes Index
Zusatzinfo | 1 line illustration |
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Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 499 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-26652-8 / 0520266528 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-26652-0 / 9780520266520 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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