CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ENVIRONMENT BY USING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) CAMPAIGNS IN THE OIL INDUSTRY
Corporate Social Responsibility activities bring organizations closer to the community they operate in, up to the level of making
them a citizen of that community. Currently, companies invest in CSR all around the world, the phenomena being of great
importance in any businesses activity. Most of the Romanian studies on the subject are performed at management level, targeting
the perspective it has on the concept, the investment value they put into social activities and the general developing methods of
such activities. The current paper proposes a study on the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility notoriety and
consumers’ attitude. Giving that, the leader of the Romanian oil industry has great experience in this area and that the company’s
most known campaign is “Tara lui Andrei/ Country of Andrew”, the general objective of the research is to see the impact of
Country of Andrew social responsibility campaign notoriety on the company’s consumers’ attitude. The secondary objectives are
based on the relationship between notoriety and each dimension of attitude, cognition, affect and the conative aspect. The
research was developed in Iasi city, on 120 respondents who use this company’s products and tested their attitude with respect to
spontaneous and assisted notoriety on both the company and the campaign - Country of Andrew. The main conclusion of the
study is that the Romanian leader of the oil industry and Country of Andrew social campaign notoriety has a negative influence
on consumers’ attitude. Both hypotheses have been confirmed.