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How consumers respond to social norms: an evidence from pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing

How consumers respond to social norms: an evidence from pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing This paper aims to investigate consumer behaviour in response to social norms under pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing. Specifically, it explores the critical role of social norms such as norm priming and consumer prior trust in the retailer on consumers’ perceived price fairness, trust, willingness to pay, purchase intentions and intentions to spread negative word of mouth about the retailer.Design/methodology/approachData on dependent measures were collected through the scenario-based online experimental approach and assessed using MANOVA analysis.FindingsResults confirm the significance of norms by indicating the critical role of norm belief on consumer responses. Also, increasing the salience of norms by priming them usually intensifies negative behaviour, and pre-existing trust in the retailer serves as an imperfect cushion against consumer negative reactions to norm violation, but this effect is observed to be decreasing with increase in prior trust.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research should consider the contextual (time, place, media) influences and assumptions to increase the generalizability of the findings.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to explicitly examine the effects of social-norm compliance by sellers on consumer behaviour in the context of PWYW pricing. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Consumer Marketing Emerald Publishing

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Emerald Publishing
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0736-3761
DOI
10.1108/jcm-05-2018-2677
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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate consumer behaviour in response to social norms under pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing. Specifically, it explores the critical role of social norms such as norm priming and consumer prior trust in the retailer on consumers’ perceived price fairness, trust, willingness to pay, purchase intentions and intentions to spread negative word of mouth about the retailer.Design/methodology/approachData on dependent measures were collected through the scenario-based online experimental approach and assessed using MANOVA analysis.FindingsResults confirm the significance of norms by indicating the critical role of norm belief on consumer responses. Also, increasing the salience of norms by priming them usually intensifies negative behaviour, and pre-existing trust in the retailer serves as an imperfect cushion against consumer negative reactions to norm violation, but this effect is observed to be decreasing with increase in prior trust.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research should consider the contextual (time, place, media) influences and assumptions to increase the generalizability of the findings.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper to explicitly examine the effects of social-norm compliance by sellers on consumer behaviour in the context of PWYW pricing.

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Journal of Consumer Marketing – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 18, 2019

Keywords: Social norms; External reference price; Online buying; Pay-what-you-want pricing

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