“…In marketing literature, this theory helps explain consumers' responses to product failures (Folkes, 1984;Dawar and Pillutla, 2000) and their evaluations of companies that engage in social sponsorship (Rifon et al, 2004) or cause-related marketing (Ellen et al, 2000;Dean, 2003;Sjovall and Talk, 2004), two forms of CSR engagements. As in previous literature, Heider's (1944) When consumers observe that a company communicates about its CSR engagement but have no other information about the firm, they probably attribute this communication to the current sustainability trend, which is an extrinsic motive.…”