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| Title: | A habit-formation model of brand choice |
| Authors: | Han, Jin Kyung
Han, Sangman
Vanhonacker, Wilfried R. |
| Keywords: | Habit
Brand choice
Run length |
| Issue Date: | Aug-1996 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marketing Working Paper Series ; MKTG 96.077 |
| Abstract: | It is becoming increasingly evident that consumers engage in established patterns of repeat-purchases (brand runs) in frequently-purchased product categories. As habits, by definition, employ instituted patterns of the past on the present, a habit-driven heuristic allows consumers to economize on the mental effort entailed in their brand choice decisions. In this context, we propose a brand choice model in which habits, represented as brand's prior run-lengths, play a reference role in impacting the stay-or-exit decision in the brand's current run. We empirically test and substantiate the habit phenomenon in two consumer goods product categories by demonstrating consumers' propensity to adhere to the brand's previous run-lengths as reference. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/865 |
| Appears in Collections: | MARK Working Papers
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