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Effect of Customers’ Attitude, Involvement on Purchase Intention: Moderating Effect of Cause Related Marketing Campaigns

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  • Farzana Riva
  • Mohammad Rajib Uddin
  • Mohammad Rabiul Basher Rubel

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The current study considers customers’ attitude, involvement and purchase intention of hotel customers with the moderating impact of cause related marketing campaigns in the context of Bangladesh. Partial Least Square (PLS) path modeling, a variance-based technique of SEM was used in the current study as the study tool. After testing the hypothesis on 305 customers it has been found positive significant influence of both customers’ attitudes and involvement on purchase intention of hotel customers. Moreover, the current study used cause related marketing campaigns as a moderating variable between customers’ attitude and involvement on purchase intention where both the hypothesis found insignificant. Therefore, from the literature review and the findings of the analysis the current study recommends future research to look for the moderating effect of cause related marketing campaigns of other customer perceptions in the link between attitude and involvement on purchase intention.

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  • Farzana Riva & Mohammad Rajib Uddin & Mohammad Rabiul Basher Rubel, 2020. "Effect of Customers’ Attitude, Involvement on Purchase Intention: Moderating Effect of Cause Related Marketing Campaigns," International Journal of Marketing Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(2), pages 1-75, March.
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