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Analysis of Sales Promotion Effects on Household Purchase Behavior

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purchase behavior, taking intervening variables into account, the promoti<strong>on</strong> trait<br />

c<strong>on</strong>ceptualizati<strong>on</strong> stands <strong>on</strong> shaky grounds. With this framework, we follow up <strong>on</strong> research<br />

by Seetharaman and Chintagunta (1998). They c<strong>on</strong>cluded that there is a need to<br />

simultaneously account for the effects <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> time-varying marketing variables, heterogeneity<br />

across households and higher-order effects (such as variety seeking) while modeling<br />

household purchase behavior in order to obtain valid estimates <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> model parameters. In<br />

additi<strong>on</strong>, also possible differences across product categories are taken into account.<br />

This framework applies to each individual household. The dependent variable is the<br />

overt household promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se behavior. This possibly differs across reacti<strong>on</strong><br />

mechanism, promoti<strong>on</strong>-type, product category, and can depend <strong>on</strong> household variables. This<br />

way <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>ceptualizati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>fers the opportunity to answer the two research questi<strong>on</strong>s as stated<br />

in Chapter 1. First, can we relate the exhibited household promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se behavior to<br />

household variables? If so, do we find a c<strong>on</strong>sistent pattern in individual household<br />

purchase behavior regarding promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se, either across product categories, dealtypes,<br />

and/or reacti<strong>on</strong> mechanisms? And if we find a pattern, is this pattern then caused by<br />

the socio-ec<strong>on</strong>omic, demographic, and/or psychographic household characteristics such as<br />

social class, size, compositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the household, variety seeking and purchase process<br />

characteristics al<strong>on</strong>e, or also by an individual deal pr<strong>on</strong>eness trait? Sec<strong>on</strong>d, can we find a<br />

general decompositi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> household promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se into the sales promoti<strong>on</strong> reacti<strong>on</strong><br />

mechanisms across different product categories?<br />

5.3 Research Methodology<br />

The focus <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this dissertati<strong>on</strong> is to observe household purchase behavior at such a<br />

microscopic level that it allows us to draw c<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong>s about the effects <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> sales<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>s <strong>on</strong> household purchase behavior. Are households influenced by sales<br />

promoti<strong>on</strong>s? And if so, in what way? Are all households influenced in the same way? Are<br />

there household characteristics that explain the difference in displayed household deal<br />

resp<strong>on</strong>se behavior? Are there similarities within household promoti<strong>on</strong> resp<strong>on</strong>se across<br />

product categories? Are these similarities explained by household characteristics, or is<br />

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