Anticipation of injurious consumption outcomes and its impact on consumer attributions of blame

Article Abstract:

The role of expectations in consumer evaluation of outcomes is widely applied in the study of consumers' post-purchase evaluations. However, the evaluative consequence of relatively unexpected outcomes has received little attention. This study discusses the importance of infrequently occurring negative outcomes in consumer evaluations and then tests the role of their foreseeability in an attributional model. Results suggest that the extent to which a consumer anticipates negative product use outcomes plays an important role in mediating attributions for that outcome to the marketer. Specifically, the model results address determinants of consumer attributions of blame for negative consumption outcomes. Factors such as promoting safety, using warning labels, and providing service as well as consumer risk aversion, product experience, and perceived product danger influence blame both directly and indirectly through the extent to which an unlikely negative outcome is anticipated. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Evaluation, Consumer goods, Attribution (Social psychology), Attribution (Psychology), Blame

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When customers are members: customer retention in paid membership contexts

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This article seeks to gain an understanding of how members' characteristics relate to lapsing behavior in paid membership contexts. Literatures such as social identity theory are used to propose hypotheses that are tested using a hazard rate model on archival data pertaining to 7,798 members of an art museum. The results indicate that the hazard of lapsing is lowered with increasing duration, participation in special interest groups whose goals are related to those of the focal organization, gift frequency, and increasing interrenewal times. Conversely, members who have downgraded their membership level in the past, those who have participated in special interest groups whose goals are unrelated to those of the focal organization, and those who received their membership as a gift are more likely to lapse. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Marketing management, Membership campaigns

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