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JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH
卷 58, 期 2, 页码 246-264出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0022243720988257
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difference-in-differences; mobile apps; mobile marketing; multichannel marketing
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The study shows that in a highly competitive environment, adopting a hotel group's app may significantly reduce customers' overall spending, with customers using the app for mobile check-in service experiencing less negative impact on spending.
Firms use mobile applications to engage with customers, provide services, and encourage customer purchase. Conventional wisdom and previous research indicate that apps have a positive effect on customer spending. The authors critically examine this premise in a highly competitive institutional context by estimating how customers' multichannel spending changes after adopting a hotel group's app and identifying the factors contributing to such change. Exploiting the variation in customers' timing of app adoption and using a difference-in-differences approach, the authors find that the effect of app adoption on customers' overall spending is significant and negative. Additional analyses suggest the possibility that customers who adopt the focal app also adopt competitor apps and therefore search more and shop around, leading to decreased share of wallet with the focal hotel group. The authors also find that the negative effect on spending is smaller for customers who use the app for mobile check-in service than those who use the app for only searching, highlighting the role of app engagement in mitigating the negative effect.
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