Surveying Influence of Organization’s So-cial Responsibility and Consumer’s Trust Aspects on Organization’s Reputation

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Nowadays, due to the influence organizations have on society and environment, social responsibilities of organizations have been important, considered as a determining variable by government and institutes. In this research, the relation between organizations’ social responsibilities and consumer’s trust in one hand and organization’s reputation is surveyed. Social responsibility aspects were considered based on Carol model (economic responsibility, legal responsibility, moral responsibility, and well-wishing or arbitrary responsibility) and consumer’s trust were regarded based on Mayer model (trust on specialty, trust on integration, and trust on social well-wishing) and their effects on organization’s reputation are studied. According to the results, social responsibility aspects had significant relation with consumer’s trust while consumer’s trust had significant relation with organization’s reputation. In addition, influence of organizations’ social responsibilities measurements on its culture and legitimation as medium of effect on organization’s reputation was examined.

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