Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1177/00222429241304322
Savannah Wei Shi, Seoungwoo Lee, Kirthi Kalyanam, Michel Wedel
The authors develop and test a theoretical framework to examine the impact of app crashes on app engagement. The framework predicts that consumers increase engagement after encountering a single crash due to their need-for-closure and curiosity, yet reduce engagement after experiencing repeated and concentrated crashes, primarily because of frustration and perceived task unattainability; the recency of crashes moderates these effects. Field data analysis reveals that while a crash truncates a session and reduces content consumption, it increases page views in the following session. However, this increase in page views does not compensate for the loss during the crashed session. Frequent and more concentrated crashes curtail engagement. Three experiments in which crashes are exogenously manipulated in a different context support the validity and generalizability of these findings, confirm the proposed mediators, and demonstrate how to lessen the negative impact of repeated crashes with post-crash messages. The research adds new dimensions to the task pursuit literature and provides managers with a framework to quantify the economic impact of crashes, analyze content substitution behavior, and assess the bias of a transactional view of crash incidents. Additionally, it offers insights into targeted feature release to more tolerant users and strategic design of post-crash messages.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103880
Chengkun Huang , Hong Xu
Once indigenous villages are designated as World Heritage Sites, they no longer belong exclusively to local residents. The political, cultural, and tourism-related values of these sites are overemphasized, often undermining the subjectivity of local residents. This transformation in spatial attributes of the villages constitutes “structural violence” against local communities. Existing literature still lacks direct research attention on this issue. This study uses the Fujian Tulou villages in China as case sites, employing a “material-social-cultural” three-dimensional framework to summarize three forms of structural violence: resource deprivation, imbalanced interest structure, and discourse erosion, rooted in spatial transformation, and further explores their underlying causes. The findings deepen insight into the tensions between World Heritage practices, tourism, and sustainable community development.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2024.104126
Mahesh Gadekar , Amélia Brandão
Consumers’ own perceived proximity to environmental hazards may have direct or indirect effects for brands that seek to address those hazards, in the form of behavioral outcomes (brand word-of-mouth intentions and willingness to pay a premium and through the influence of brand stereotype dimensions (e.g., brand warmth). This study integrates social identity theory with consumer proximity perceptions to identify antecedents of brand judgments and behavioral outcomes. According to 373 survey responses in an emerging market, proximity perceptions indirectly affect consumer behavioral outcomes through perceived environmental beliefs and self–brand connections; proximity perceptions exert stronger effects on brand word-of-mouth intentions, perceived environmental friendliness, self–brand connections and willingness to pay a premium for brand warmth.
{"title":"Consumers' perceptions of proximity to plastic pollution and support for environmentally friendly retail brands: An emerging market perspective","authors":"Mahesh Gadekar , Amélia Brandão","doi":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2024.104126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2024.104126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumers’ own perceived proximity to environmental hazards may have direct or indirect effects for brands that seek to address those hazards, in the form of behavioral outcomes (brand word-of-mouth intentions and willingness to pay a premium and through the influence of brand stereotype dimensions (e.g., brand warmth). This study integrates social identity theory with consumer proximity perceptions to identify antecedents of brand judgments and behavioral outcomes. According to 373 survey responses in an emerging market, proximity perceptions indirectly affect consumer behavioral outcomes through perceived environmental beliefs and self–brand connections; proximity perceptions exert stronger effects on brand word-of-mouth intentions, perceived environmental friendliness, self–brand connections and willingness to pay a premium for brand warmth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48399,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 104126"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142704312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1177/00222429241303387
Lili Wang, Maferima Touré-Tillery
This article examines the motivational consequences of anthropomorphizing the means of goal pursuit. Eight studies show that consumers are more motivated to pursue fitness and academic goals with anthropomorphized (vs. non-anthropomorphized) means because such means elicit a greater sense of companionship and thus stronger beliefs that (a) goal pursuit is enjoyable (perceived enjoyability) and that (b) the goal is attainable (goal expectancy). We first find that participants work out harder when using an anthropomorphized (vs. non-anthropomorphized) treadmill (Study 1) and jump rope (Study 2). We then show that this effect occurs due to a greater sense of companionship, which in turn increases both perceived enjoyability and goal expectancy (sequential mediations; Study 3). We further demonstrate these underlying mechanisms through moderation: the effect attenuates when a human companion is present (Study 4), for means perceived as inherently fun (Study 5), and when self-efficacy is high (Study 6). Study 7 identifies a boundary condition: the effect disappears when the means takes on a supervisor (rather than partner) role. Finally, Study 8 shows the downstream consequence of the effect on subsequent choice of means. These findings contribute to research on motivation and anthropomorphism, with practical implications for marketers and consumers.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2024.11.005
Rui Li , Yong-Quan Li , Wen-Qi Ruan , Shu-Ning Zhang , Mei-Yu Wang
Heritage sites are in a state of instability, facing various disturbances or environmental changes, which may lead to a crisis in cultural protection and inheritance. Importantly, cultural resilience is the key to dissipating these disturbances or even transforming them into sustainable development opportunities, but few studies have conducted theoretical exploration and evaluation on this topic. Therefore, this study aims to conceptualize and develop scales for cultural resilience of heritage sites (CRHS) using online and offline investigations (in-depth interviews, big data mining, and questionnaires). The results from grounded theory procedures reveal that cultural resilience consists of 5 dimensions: cultural resistance, restoration, learning ability, adaptability, and growth. Moreover, a cultural resilience scale with 17 items was developed and proved reliable and valid. This study lays an empirical foundation for the theoretical system development of CRHS and provides resilience ideas and strategies for their cultural protection, inheritance, and sustainable development.
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Live streaming (LS) sales are increasingly popular, leading many manufacturers to adopt the LS channel to encroach on the online market. Three characteristics of the LS channel are identified: (1) Real-time interaction reduces product matching uncertainty. (2) The increase in product matching probability mitigates consumer disappointment aversion (CDA). (3) Increased entertainment and trust enhance consumers valuation of products. Considering a supply chain that includes a manufacturer and an online retailer, we investigate the manufacturer’s LS channel encroachment strategies for both centralized and decentralized scenarios. We find that LS channel encroachment always occurs in the centralized scenario but may not necessarily take place in the decentralized scenario. Specifically, if CDA intensity is strong and product matching probability is small, the manufacturer adopts replacement encroachment. If product matching probability is moderate, the manufacturer employs competition encroachment. However, if product matching probability is large and LS’s valuation enhancement effect is low, the manufacturer avoids encroachment in the centralized scenario but chooses threatening encroachment in the decentralized scenario. Finally, although CDA can promote encroachment, it always makes the manufacturer worse off. Intuitively, CDA weakens the online retail channel’s competitiveness, thereby harming the retailer. However, our study reveals an interesting finding: When product matching probability is sufficiently large and LS’s valuation enhancement effect is low, CDA makes the retailer better off.
实时流媒体(LS)销售日益流行,导致许多制造商采用 LS 渠道蚕食在线市场。本文指出了 LS 渠道的三个特点:(1) 实时互动减少了产品匹配的不确定性。(2)产品匹配概率的增加减轻了消费者的失望厌恶(CDA)。 3)娱乐性和信任度的增加提高了消费者对产品的评价。考虑到供应链包括制造商和在线零售商,我们研究了制造商在集中和分散两种情况下的 LS 渠道侵占策略。我们发现,LS 渠道蚕食总是发生在集中式场景中,但不一定发生在分散式场景中。具体来说,如果 CDA 强度大,产品匹配概率小,制造商就会采取替换式蚕食。如果产品匹配概率适中,制造商就会采用竞争侵占。然而,如果产品匹配概率较大,LS 的估值提升效应较低,则制造商在集中化情景下会避免蚕食,但在分散化情景下会选择威胁性蚕食。最后,尽管 CDA 可以促进蚕食,但它总是会使制造商的利益受损。直观地说,CDA 削弱了在线零售渠道的竞争力,从而损害了零售商的利益。然而,我们的研究揭示了一个有趣的发现:当产品匹配概率足够大且LS的估值提升效应较低时,CDA会使零售商更有利。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123898
Keith Bothongo, Ali Kinyar
This study investigates the influence of external and internal factors on eco-innovation and the impact of its adoption on firms' environmental performance. We mainly examined process eco-innovation, which provides eco-friendly alternatives to the raw materials, machines, and energy sources used in the firms' production processes that could harm the environment. Using a survey, we gathered data from 118 publicly listed household cleaning and personal care companies on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Results of the structural equation model revealed that regulatory pressure, consumer demand, and green corporate image could induce the adoption of process eco-innovation, while environmental subsidies do not. In addition, our findings indicated that environmental management systems (EMS), technological capabilities, and managerial environmental concerns spur process eco-innovation adoption. We also found that process eco-innovation can significantly improve firms' environmental performance, indicating that cleaner production processes are important for pollution prevention. This work contributes to existing knowledge of eco-innovation, especially in terms of its regional and industry focus, and provides significant implications for policy and practice.
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