The purpose of this study is to investigate CSR’s effect on brand image in order to increase the understanding of CSR as a marketing tool, within the service industry. The research questions of the study are “How does a service-based company’s involvement in CSR as a marketing strategy affect the brand image? And how do the different CSR dimensions affect the brand image?”

This study has a positive and deductive approach with a cross sectional design. The quantitative method chosen was a questionnaire, more precisely.  More specifically, a self-completion survey was conducted on a sample of 73 hotel guests living in a CSR friendly hotel in Malmo, Sweden.