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Boatwright, Peter

Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.149 personalization content personalized willingness web pay online likelihood information consumers cues customers consumer services elaboration
0.147 impact data effect set propensity potential unique increase matching use selection score results self-selection heterogeneity
0.137 online consumers consumer product purchase shopping e-commerce products commerce website electronic results study behavior experience
0.125 use support information effective behaviors work usage examine extent users expertise uses longitudinal focus routine
0.101 firms firm financial services firm's size examine new based result level including results industry important

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Mukhopadhyay, Tridas 1 Telang, Rahul 1 Wattal, Sunil 1
hierarchical Bayesian model 1 information use 1 personalization 1 privacy 1

Articles (1)

What's in a "Name"? Impact of Use of Customer Information in E-Mail Advertisements. (Information Systems Research, 2012)
Authors: Abstract:
    In this study, we examine how consumers respond to firms' use of two types of information for personalization: product preferences and name. We collect a unique data set of over 10 million e-mail advertisements sent by a website to over 600,000 customers who could buy the advertised products from the online merchant. We estimate a two-stage hierarchical model using Bayesian analysis to account for observable and unobservable consumer heterogeneity. Our analysis suggests several interesting results regarding consumers' responses to firms' use of information. When firms use product-based personalization (where the use of information is not explicitly mentioned), consumers respond positively. On the other hand, consumers respond negatively when firms are explicit in their use of personally identifiable information (i.e., a personalized greeting). We also find that negative responses to personalized greetings are moderated by consumers' familiarity with firms. The main contribution of this study is that it not only indicates the economic benefits of personalization in e-mails but also highlights consumers' concerns over the use of information in personalization.