RESUME
Catherine Janssen is a full-time professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She obtained her PhD in Management Sciences in July 2013 from the Louvain School of Management of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Before joining ULB, she was an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the IESEG School of Management (France) and did one-year research visit at the Baruch College of the City University of New York (USA).
Her main research interests include consumer responses to corporate social responsibility, corporate crises and corporate social irresponsibility, and consumers’ socially responsible behaviors.
She has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Letters, and Business Horizons.
Her main research interests include consumer responses to corporate social responsibility, corporate crises and corporate social irresponsibility, and consumers’ socially responsible behaviors.
She has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Marketing Letters, and Business Horizons.
RESEARCH FIELDS
Corporate Social Responsibility Communication | Consumer Behavior | Responsible Consumption
most representative publications
- Janssen C., Vanhamme J., and Leblanc S. (2017), “Should luxury brands say it out loud? Brand conspicuousness and consumer perceptions of responsible luxury”, Journal of Business Research, 77, 167-174.
- Janssen C. and Vanhamme J. (2015), “Theoretical lenses for understanding the CSR-consumer paradox”, Journal of Business Ethics, 130 (4), 775-787.
- Vanhamme J., Swaen V., Berens G., and Janssen C. (2015), “Playing with fire: Aggravating and buffering effects of ex ante CSR communication campaigns for companies facing allegations of social irresponsibility”, Marketing Letters, 26 (4), 565-578.
- Janssen C., Sen S., and Bhattacharya CB (2015), “Corporate crises in the age of corporate social responsibility”, Business Horizons, 58 (2), 183-192.
- Janssen C., Vanhamme J., Lindgreen A., and Lefebvre C. (2014), “The catch-22 of responsible luxury: Effects of luxury product characteristics on consumers’ perception of fit with corporate social responsibility”, Journal of Business Ethics, 119 (1), 45-57.