TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Yang, Xisi A1 - Weber, Anja A1 - Grimm, Anna-Katharina T1 - The effects of green consumer empowerment in advertising on corporate evaluations and purchase intention: the case of organic food JF - Review of Managerial Science N2 - This research aims to investigate the potential of consumer empowerment, the activation of consumers’ perceived power over companies, to achieve improved advertising effects for organic food compared to only communicating ecological benefits (classical green appeals). Two online experiments were conducted to analyze the ad effectiveness for consumers’ responses including their evaluations of the company and purchase intentions (nStudy1 = 294; nStudy2 = 457). Results indicate that green empowerment ads reach overall better performance to increase people’s perceived customer orientation and purchase intentions compared to green appeals, while similar effects are identified for perceived corporate environmental responsibility. Empowerment tactics are especially effective when consumers perceive the supplier to be a larger, high-resource company compared to a smaller, low-resource one. The significant effects of perceived corporate resources also indicates that smaller companies should use differentiated ad strategies depending on if they intend to enhance consumers’ purchase intentions or their environmental reputation. KW - Green advertisement KW - consumer empowerment KW - customer orientation KW - organic food Y1 - 2021 SN - 1863-6683 SS - 1863-6683 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00495-4 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00495-4 VL - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 33 ER -