Patrick Gauß, Sonja Gensler, Michael Kortenhaus, Nadine Riedel, Andrea Schneider
{"title":"Regulating the sharing economy: The effects of day caps on short- and long-term rental markets and stakeholder outcomes","authors":"Patrick Gauß, Sonja Gensler, Michael Kortenhaus, Nadine Riedel, Andrea Schneider","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01028-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01028-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Home sharing platforms have experienced a rapid growth over the last decade. Following negative publicity, many cities have started regulating the short-term rental market. Regulations often involve a cap on the number of days a property can be rented out on a short-term basis. We draw on rich data for short-term rentals on Airbnb and for the long-term rental market to examine the impact of short-term rental regulations with a day cap on various stakeholders: hosts, guests, the platform provider, and residents. Based on a difference-in-differences design, we document a sizable drop in Airbnb activity. Interestingly, not only targeted hosts (i.e., hosts with reservation days larger than the day cap), but also non-targeted hosts reduce their Airbnb activity. The reservation days of non-targeted hosts decrease between 26.27% and 51.89% depending on the treatment. Targeted hosts experience a similar decline. There is, nevertheless, significant non-compliance: more than one third of hosts do not comply with enacted short-term rental regulations. Additional analyses show that few properties are redirected from short-term rental to long-term rental use and that there is no significant drop in long-term rents. Drawing on a theoretical model, we tie the estimated effects to changes in stakeholders’ welfare: Regulations significantly reduce the welfare of hosts, and the loss ranges between 46.30% and 9.02%. The welfare loss of the platform provider is proportional to the loss of the hosts. Welfare of guests decreases moderately ranging between 4.5% to 4.1%. The welfare of residents increases minimal. These results question the effectiveness and desirability of the studied short-term rental regulations.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141326881","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}
{"title":"Correction: Introducing the ARTS framework: A tool for constructive re-inquiry","authors":"Kelly Goldsmith, Jillian Hmurovic, Cait Lamberton","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01033-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01033-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141360532","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}
{"title":"The robo bias in conversational reviews: How the solicitation medium anthropomorphism affects product rating valence and review helpfulness","authors":"Dimitrios Tsekouras, Dominik Gutt, Irina Heimbach","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01027-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01027-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Companies are increasingly introducing <i>conversational reviews</i>—reviews solicited via chatbots—to gain customer feedback. However, little is known about how chatbot-mediated solicitation influences rating valence and review helpfulness compared to conventional online forms. Therefore, we conceptualized these review solicitation media on the continuum of anthropomorphism and investigated how various levels of anthropomorphism affect rating valence and review helpfulness, showing that more anthropomorphic media lead to more positive and less helpful reviews. We found that moderate levels of anthropomorphism lead to increased interaction enjoyment, and high levels increase social presence, thus inflating the rating valence and decreasing review helpfulness. Further, the effect of anthropomorphism remains robust across review solicitors’ salience (sellers vs. platforms) and expressed emotionality in conversations. Our study is among the first to investigate chatbots as a new form of technology to solicit online reviews, providing insights to inform various stakeholders of the advantages, drawbacks, and potential ethical concerns of anthropomorphic technology in customer feedback solicitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141264999","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}
{"title":"Dynamic interplays between online reviews and marketing promotions","authors":"Yufei Zhang, Clay M. Voorhees, G. Tomas M. Hult","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01025-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01025-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Customer reviews, price discounts, and free shipping are powerful drivers of online purchases. Prior research demonstrates their direct effects on consumer behavior, usually with the assumption that they operate independently. By examining the interplays of online reviews and marketing promotions, this study offers a richer, more comprehensive perspective on how these drivers work together to shape consumers’ preferences and influence product sales. The authors examine these effects using both an online experiment (Study 1) and an analysis of a secondary data set (Study 2). Results demonstrate that when developing promotional schedules for e-commerce sites, managers must account for both the volume and valence of their products’ reviews; failing to address these dynamics may lead to reduced profit margins. A key insight is the limited performance of price discounts when a critical number of reviews accumulates, resulting in margin erosion without demand creation. The implications of these results are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141079221","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}
Xiaofei Song, Mengyao Fu, Jie Fang, Zhao Cai, Chee-Wee Tan, Eric Tze Kuan Lim, Alain Yee Loong Chong
{"title":"Turning the wheels of engagement: Evidence from entertainment live streaming","authors":"Xiaofei Song, Mengyao Fu, Jie Fang, Zhao Cai, Chee-Wee Tan, Eric Tze Kuan Lim, Alain Yee Loong Chong","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01020-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01020-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Influencers (e.g., live streamers) earn gratuities from engaging customers, a phenomenon that we label as engagement monetization. Although scholars have advocated a process view of customer engagement, they tend to accentuate unidirectional transitions from low- to high-engagement-level states. This constrains influencers’ understanding of customer engagement, which in turn inhibits their ability to both trigger profitable states of engagement as well as prevent deteriorating states of engagement from manifesting. To this end, we extend extant literature by conceptualizing customer engagement as an emergent process that embodies engagement states and engagement transitions. Empirically, we conduct an illustrative study in the context of entertainment live streaming and subscribe to the Markov chain method to showcase how customer engagement transition can be modeled. Based on 91,148 engagement records, we scrutinize the effects of influencers’ scheduling strategy on engagement transitions and viewers’ gratuities using the Multilevel Linear Model (MLM). Findings yield practical implications for influencers in terms of how live streaming sessions can be strategically scheduled to bolster customer engagement and monetization opportunities.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140949754","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}
{"title":"The bad-influencer effect: Indulgence undermines social connection","authors":"Jessica Gamlin, Maferima Touré-Tillery","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01024-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01024-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research tested the “bad influencer” effect, whereby consumers are less willing to connect with people on social media who post about their indulgence (vs. self-control) with respect to the goals valued by those consumers. We present six studies that test the bad-influencer effect across multiple domains involving indulgence (vs. self-control): eating indulgent (vs. healthy) foods, spending time mindlessly (vs. mindfully), and using profane (vs. proper) language. Our findings show consumers are less willing to connect with people whose social media posts appear indulgent (vs. self-controlled) because they believe such posters will more negatively influence their own valued goals (i.e., interpersonal instrumentality expectations). We further identify two theoretically derived moderators of the bad-influencer effect: goal commitment amplifies the effect, whereas goal suppression attenuates the effect. Finally, we show that willingness to connect (WTC) has downstream consequences for consumers’ receptivity to word-of-mouth (WOM) recommendations made by posters. Our research suggests that content creators and marketing managers seeking to maximize connections should avoid sharing content that appears indulgent with respect to their target audience’s goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140895732","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}
Erik Mooi, Qiong Wang, Steven Seggie, Sandy D. Jap
{"title":"The show must go on: The role of contract frames in safeguarding relationship continuity","authors":"Erik Mooi, Qiong Wang, Steven Seggie, Sandy D. Jap","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01023-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01023-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contracting is a cornerstone of productive interorganizational exchange; and while much research has been conducted about how contracts impact exchange consequences (e.g., transaction costs, performance), there is less understanding of <i>how contracts shape the mediating behaviors and exchange processes that lead to those consequences</i>. We demonstrate how flexible and vigilant exchange processes mediate promotion and prevention frames in building expectations of relationship continuity. We further identify interpretive uncertainty—a perceptual misalignment between the exchange parties—as a key moderator weakening flexible exchange processes’ impact on continuity expectations. These insights are empirically verified in samples involving 661 managers and executives across a wide range of industry contexts. Our results provide key theoretical and managerial implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140875148","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}
{"title":"The impact of corporate social irresponsibility on prosocial consumer behavior","authors":"Sumin Kim, Hongwei He, Anders Gustafsson","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01021-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01021-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) refers to violations of the social contract between corporations and society. Existing literature documents its tendency to evoke negative consumer responses toward the firm involved, including unethical consumer behaviors. However, limited research attention deals with its potential impacts on prosocial consumer behavior. With six studies, the current research reveals that when consumers perceive harm due to CSI, they engage in more prosocial behavior due to the arousal of their anger. This effect is weaker among consumers who find the focal CSI issue more personally relevant but stronger among consumers with strong self-efficacy for promoting justice. Perceptions of CSI harm increase with the degree of control that the focal firm has over the CSI. This research thus establishes an effect of CSI harm on prosocial consumer behaviors, through the emotional mechanism of anger; it further shows that consumers seek to restore justice by engaging in prosocial behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140643091","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}
Alexander C. LaBrecque, Clay M. Voorhees, Farnoosh Khodakarami, Paul W. Fombelle
{"title":"Native advertising effectiveness: The role of congruence and consumer annoyance on clicks, bounces, and visits","authors":"Alexander C. LaBrecque, Clay M. Voorhees, Farnoosh Khodakarami, Paul W. Fombelle","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01014-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01014-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In response to increased avoidance of traditional banner advertising, publishers have turned to a subtler form of display advertising called native advertising. Unlike traditional banner ads, native ads are intentionally designed to be cohesive with editorial content and assimilated into the design of the publisher’s website. We examine the performance of native advertising placements across three studies. In Study 1, we use a large dataset from a native advertising platform to examine the interplay of ad placement and ad content. We find that clicks are higher when ads are (1) delivered in-feed and (2) contain lower levels of selling intent, highlighting the interplay between the ad content and delivery. Study 2 confirms that in-feed placements experience higher clicks, but they also result in more bounces relative to in-ad placements. As a result, their effect on net visits is similar to in-ad placements at a higher cost. To further understand this phenomenon, we conducted a lab study (Study 3), which shows that when consumers are redirected to an advertiser’s site from an in-feed (versus in-ad) placement they experience higher annoyance and, ultimately, higher bounce intentions and reduced advertiser purchase intentions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140622845","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}
Madhu Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Srinivas Sridharan, Gaurav R. Sinha
{"title":"Addressing grand challenges through the bottom-up marketing approach: Lessons from subsistence marketplaces and marketplace literacy","authors":"Madhu Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Srinivas Sridharan, Gaurav R. Sinha","doi":"10.1007/s11747-024-01022-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-024-01022-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a bottom-up marketing approach as a pathway to addressing the grand challenge of poverty and inequality for the marketing discipline. We derive this approach from the research stream on radically different contexts of subsistence marketplaces. Research on subsistence marketplaces has typically explored micro-level phenomena but also traversed upward and explained aggregate phenomena at higher levels. We present a conceptual framework to encapsulate general and granular elements of the bottom-up marketing approach. Study 1 demonstrates general elements of the framework through a retrospective examination of the global diffusion of a marketplace literacy program. Study 2 demonstrates the more granular elements of the framework through a qualitative analysis of five case studies of social enterprise start-ups. Though presenting a complementary counter-perspective to conventional thinking, we embed the process of interweaving the bottom-up with the macro level to present an actionable approach. We conclude with insights for marketing research and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17194,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":18.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140608148","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}