TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Consumers' Efforts on Price and Promotion Fairness Perceptions
AU - Xia, Lan
AU - Kukar-Kinney, Monika
AU - Monroe, Kent B.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - This research examines how consumers' efforts as a nonmonetary sacrifice influence their price and promotion fairness perceptions in the context of price promotions. Multiple studies using different price promotion tactics demonstrate that consumers' perceived level of effort to obtain a reduced price negatively influences their fairness perceptions when they deny the promoted price. Exploring the underlying mechanisms of this effect, we show that the amount of effort consumers exert to obtain a promoted price leads to their feeling of deservingness and entitlement. When the promoted price is denied, this feeling of entitlement is violated, causing unfairness perceptions to occur. The research demonstrates that, in addition to retailers' actions such as price changes, consumers' actions, in the form of their effort input, are also an important determinant of fairness perceptions.
AB - This research examines how consumers' efforts as a nonmonetary sacrifice influence their price and promotion fairness perceptions in the context of price promotions. Multiple studies using different price promotion tactics demonstrate that consumers' perceived level of effort to obtain a reduced price negatively influences their fairness perceptions when they deny the promoted price. Exploring the underlying mechanisms of this effect, we show that the amount of effort consumers exert to obtain a promoted price leads to their feeling of deservingness and entitlement. When the promoted price is denied, this feeling of entitlement is violated, causing unfairness perceptions to occur. The research demonstrates that, in addition to retailers' actions such as price changes, consumers' actions, in the form of their effort input, are also an important determinant of fairness perceptions.
KW - Fairness perception
KW - Nonmonetary sacrifice
KW - Price promotion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jretai.2009.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jretai.2009.10.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77949488989
VL - 86
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Journal of Retailing
JF - Journal of Retailing
SN - 0022-4359
IS - 1
ER -