Artikel

Improving the effectiveness of personalized recommendations through attributional cues

Firms often employ personalized recommendations to help customers make purchase decisions. To improve the effectiveness of their personalized recommendations, some firms use cues to offer transparency on how they collect and use data to derive recommendations. We draw on attribution theory to propose an additional mechanism to improve the effectiveness of personalized recommendations with cues. Attributional cues, which refer to the underlying data (i.e., customers' own data vs. similar customers' data) used for personalized recommendations, aim to increase customers' self‐attribution of personalized recommendations. Specifically, in three experimental studies, we show that attributional cues increase customers' self‐attribution of personalized recommendations, leading to higher trust in and lower reactance to personalized recommendations. The accuracy and valence of the personalized recommendations moderate this attributional effect. As a result, employing attributional cues can be an essential and affordable tool for firms to increase the effectiveness of their personalized recommendations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Psychology & Marketing ; ISSN: 1520-6793 ; Volume: 40 ; Year: 2023 ; Issue: 12 ; Pages: 2559-2575 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Klassifikation
Management
Thema
accuracy
attribution theory
attributional cues
personalization
personalized recommendations
reactance
trust
valence

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Weidig, Jakob
Kuehnl, Christina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Wiley
(wo)
Hoboken, NJ
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.1002/mar.21914
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Weidig, Jakob
  • Kuehnl, Christina
  • Wiley

Entstanden

  • 2023

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