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Description中国乳制品（液态奶）行业进入成熟期，伊利、蒙牛等乳企寡头垄断，新乳业作为后进入者，洞察消费者购买乳制品除了获得实物产品外，还期望获得产品相关的附加服务和体验，因此开展了大量体验营销活动。企业独创性地推出了“食育乐园”活动，定期邀请消费者参观公司的牧场、工厂，开展知识互动、现场体验、自助DIY产品、美照话题分享等活动，获得了良好的消费者反馈。本文基于新乳业的体验营销活动，研究体验营销对消费者购买意愿的影响。本文研究研究了三个部分。首先从SOR理论（外部刺激、个体状态、个体反应）出发，以五种体验要素为自变量、以感知价值和品牌信任为中介变量、以购买意愿为因变量建立了体验营销对购买意愿的影响模型。通过问卷法收集了301份消费者数据，用实证分析检验了模型的有效性。结果显示：体验营销五要素中，感官、情感、思考和关联体验对购买意愿产生正影响，行动体验对购买意愿没有显著影响。在除了关联体验外的三个要素对购买意愿的正影响中，感知价值和品牌信任均有中介作用。分性别来看，男性组，感官、思考和关联体验对购买意愿有显著正影响；女性组，情感和关联体验对购买意愿有显著正影响。关联体验对购买意愿的正影响中，女性大于男性。
然后，本文采取事件法，分析比较消费者在参加体验营销活动前后购买意愿的变化，验证了体验营销对购买意愿的提升作用，整体提升7.1%。分人群来看：体验营销对购买意愿提升较大的群体为：女性； 40岁以上；家庭饮奶次数在3-7次/周；近期购买过竞品的消费者。据此，本文认为该类消费者可以作为未来体验营销活动的主力群体。
最后，本文对比分析了活动前后消费者的体验变量，并以此对新乳业的体验营销活动进行评价和优化。活动前后，关联体验提升幅度最大（11.4%），行动体验虽然提升幅度排第二（9.2%），但理论研究表明行动体验的提升并不能对购买意愿产生显著正影响。因此在未来活动设计中，重视与关联体验有关的设计、适度简化行动体验、强化感官体验、情感体验等更加直观的体验有利于提升活动效果。
ContributorsZhu, Chuan (Author) / Chen, Pei-Yu (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Wang, Yongxiang (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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In the first chapter, I consider a capacity and price bounded profit maximization problem in which a firm determines prices of multiple substitutable products when the supply or capacity of the products is limited and the prices are bounded. This problem applies broadly to many pricing decision settings such as for hotel rooms, airline seats, fashion, or other seasonal retail products, as well as any product line with shared production capacity. In this paper, I characterize structural properties of the constrained profit maximization problems under the Multinomial Logit (MNL) model and the optimal pricing solutions, and present efficient solution approaches. In the second chapter, I consider a data-driven profit maximization problem in which a firm determines the prices of multiple substitutable products. This problem applies broadly to many pricing decision settings such as for hotel rooms, airline seats, fashion, or other seasonal retail products. A typical data-driven optimization problem takes a two-step approach of parameter estimation and optimization for decisions. However, this often returns a suboptimal solution as the estimation error due to the variability in data impacts the quality of the optimal solution. I present the relationship between estimation error and quality of the optimal solution and provide a possible way to reduce the impact of the error on the optimal pricing decision under the MNL model. In the last chapter, I consider a facility layout design problem of a semiconductor fabrication facility (FAB). In designing a facility layout, the traditional approach has been to minimize the flow-weighted distance of materials through the automated material handling system (AMHS). However, distance focused approach sometimes yields one major issue, traffic congestion, that there is a question if it is truly a good criterion to design a layout. In this study, I try to understand what makes such congestion by analyzing the system dynamics and propose another approach with a concept of ``balancing the flow" that focuses more on resolving the congestion. Finally, I compare the performance of the two methods through the simulation of semiconductor FAB layouts.
ContributorsYU, GWANGJAE (Author) / Li, Hongmin (Thesis advisor) / Webster, Scott (Thesis advisor) / Fowler, John (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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Objective: To conduct a content analysis of nutrition marketing in school cafeterias in Arizona to understand how nutrition concepts are currently marketed to students. This is the first study to investigate the content of nutrition marketing in school cafeterias, and also the first to compare content across elementary, middle, and high schools. Methods: Photographs of marketing materials on display in school cafeterias were obtained from a convenient sample of 13 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, and 12 high schools. In total, n=284 examples of nutrition marketing were collected. The photographs were sorted by grade level and then coded quantitatively and qualitatively based on their purpose, visual aspects, marketing strategies used, and language and literacy aspects. Given the multiple comparisons, statistical significance was assessed with a Bonferroni adjustment of p<0.0006.
Results: The average number of nutrition marketing materials within the school cafeterias was 7.7 ± 7.2. The purpose of the marketing materials ranged from promoting selection and consumption of fruits and vegetables, promoting nutrition and physical activity together, food safety, and educating about healthy eating. The sample of nutrition marketing materials emphasized selecting F/Vs over consumption of F/Vs. However, the opposite was found in marketing that exclusively promoted fruits and vegetables. The most common type of marketing in school cafeterias were flyers and most of the materials were small in size. The sample demonstrated a lack of implementation of marketing appeals in half of the sample, but the half that did utilized techniques that are known to be appealing to child and adolescent demographics, such as use of cartoons, humor, and social media/websites. 98.9% of the nutrition marketing with text were written in English and only 1.1% of the materials (n=3) were written in Spanish.
Conclusion: The nutrition marketing sample demonstrated some use of social marketing principles but does not compete with the scale and scope of the child-directed food and beverage marketing that students encounter in their environment. More research is needed to better understand how to best target nutrition marketing to child and adolescent student populations.
ContributorsXavier, Raevyn Francine (Author) / Bruening, Meg (Thesis advisor) / Adams, Marc (Committee member) / Lorts, Cori (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021
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When consumers fail in their environmental, dieting, or budgeting goals, they may engage in a consumer confession about their goal-inconsistent behavior. This dissertation seeks to understand how confessions about consumer goal transgressions affect subsequent consumer motivation and behaviors. Results from a series of five experiments reveal that after reflecting about a past transgression, Catholics who confess (vs. do not confess) about the focal transgression are more motivated to engage in subsequent goal-consistent consumer behaviors. However, results reveal no such effects for Non-Catholics; Non-Catholics are equally motivated to engage in goal-consistent consumer behaviors regardless of whether or not they confessed. Catholics and Non-Catholics differ on the extent to which they believe that acts of penance are required to make amends and achieve forgiveness after confession. For Catholics, confessing motivates restorative, penance-like behaviors even in the consumer domain. Thus, when Catholics achieve forgiveness through the act of confession itself (vs. a traditional confession requiring penance), they reduce their need to engage in restorative consumer behaviors. Importantly, results find that confession (vs. reflecting only) does not provide a general self-regulatory boost to all participants, but rather that confession is motivating only for Catholics due to their beliefs about penance. Together, results suggest that for consumers with strong penance beliefs, confession can be an effective strategy for getting back on track with their consumption goals.
ContributorsMathras, Daniele (Author) / Mandel, Naomi (Thesis advisor) / Cohen, Adam B. (Thesis advisor) / Morales, Andrea C (Committee member) / Samper, Adriana (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
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Entering a new market in the construction industry is a complex task. Although many contractors have experienced the benefits of expanding their market offerings, many more have had unsuccessful experiences causing hardship for the entire organization. Standardized decision-making processes can help to increase the likelihood of success, but few specialty contractors have taken the time to develop a formal procedure. According to this research, only 6 percent of survey respondents and 7 percent of case study participants from the sheet metal industry have a formal decision process. Five sources of data (existing literature, industry survey, semi-structured interviews, factor prioritization workshops, and expert panel discussions) are consulted to understand the current market entry decision-making practices and needs of the sheet metal industry. The data help to accomplish three study objectives: (1) determine the current processes and best practices used for market entry decision-making in the sheet metal industry, (2) identify motivations leading to market entry by sheet metal contractors, and (3) develop a standardized decision process that improves market entry decision outcomes. Grounded in a firm understanding of industry practices, a three-phased decision-making framework is created to provide a structured approach to guide contractors to an informed decision. Four industry leaders with over 175 years of experience in construction reviewed and applied every step of the framework to ensure it is practical and easy to use for contractors.
ContributorsSullivan, Jera J (Author) / El Asmar, Mounir (Thesis advisor) / Gibson, G Edward (Committee member) / Sullivan, Kenneth (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
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In two independent and thematically relevant chapters, I empirically investigate consumers’ mobile channel usage behaviors. In the first chapter, I examine the impact of mobile use in online higher education. With the prevalence of affordable mobile devices, higher education institutions anticipate that learning facilitated through mobile access can make education more accessible and effective, while some critics of mobile learning worry about the efficacy of small screens and possible distraction factors. I analyze individual-level data from Massive Open Online Courses. To resolve self-selection issues in mobile use, I exploit changes in the number of mobile-friendly, short video lectures in one course (“non-focal course”) as an instrumental variable for a learner’s mobile intensity in the other course (“focal course”), and vice versa, among learners who have taken both courses during the same semester. Results indicate that high mobile intensity impedes, or at most does not improve course engagement due mainly to mobile distractions from doing activities unrelated to learning. Finally, I discuss practical implications for researchers and higher education institutions to improve the effectiveness of mobile learning. In the second chapter, I investigate the impact of mobile users’ popular app adoption on their app usage behaviors. The adoption of popular apps can serve as a barrier to the use of other apps given popular apps’ addictive nature and users’ limited time resources, while it can stimulate the exploration of other apps by inspiring interest in experimentation with similar technologies. I use individual-level app usage data and develop a joint model of the number of apps used and app usage duration. Results indicate that popular app adoption stimulates users to explore new apps at app stores and allocate more time to them such that it increases both the number of apps used and app usage duration for apps excluding the popular app. Such positive spillover effects are heterogeneous across app categories and user characteristics. I draw insights for app developers, app platforms, and media planners by determining which new apps to release in line with the launch of popular apps, when to release such apps, and to whom distribution should be targeted.
ContributorsLee, Mi Hyun (Author) / Park, Sungho (Thesis advisor) / Han, Sang Pil (Committee member) / Kim, Sunghoon (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018