Abstract:
With the panel data of China’s 345 listed corporations over the period from 2009 to 2011, this paper analyzes the relation between cause-related marketing and profitability by OLS model, fixed effects model and random effective model. The results show significant positive correlation between cause-related marketing and profitability of the listed companies with the measurement of ROA, ROE, and EPS. In general, there is simultaneous causality between cause-related marketing and profitability.