期刊
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
卷 68, 期 2, 页码 1019-1038出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2021.3975
关键词
consumer inertia; inattention; consumer behavior; telecom; churn
This study investigates customer inattention in the mobile subscription market using data from a large telecom operator. The findings show that a notification about a future price change leads to increased customer attention, which subsequently triggers search, plan switching, and churn. The study also suggests that customers exhibit sophisticated inattention by taking immediate action to mitigate the impact of their own future inertia.
We study customer inattention by utilizing a notification about a future price change in the mobile subscription market. With detailed customer-level data from a large telecom operator, together with data on prices and contracts offered by competitors, we document that the notification causes an increase in customer attention, which triggers search, plan switching, and churn. In particular, we show that the monthly propensity to churn increases by 60% (from 1% to 1.6%) among customers whose costs would decrease with the new prices. We also document an increase in churn directly after the notification, not at the time of the future price change, and argue that this timing pattern is evidence of sophisticated inattention: customers take immediate action to mitigate the impact of their own future inertia. We supplement the analysis with a survey and find supporting evidence for the important role of inattention in determining how consumers adapt to changes in the market.
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