Title
Do Hedonic and Utilitarian Apps Differ in Consumer Appeal?
Abstract
This research in progress suggests that hedonic and utilitarian mobile applications (apps) differ in consumer appeal. We operationalize consumer appeal through addiction, frustration and consumer value perception. The interplay of frustration in the presence of a set of addicted customers is interesting, as many apps may have an addicted consumer baser-specifically for games, communications of or entertainment apps. Consumer frustration may act as a negative complementing factor to consumer addiction, and this substitution effect is argued to be higher for hedonic products than utilitarian products. Hypotheses are drawn and a methodology is suggested. Possible implications and contributions are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-45408-5_28
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Consumer addiction,Consumer frustration,Digital products,Apps,Hedonic,Utilitarian,Consumer evaluation
Advertising,Appeal,Entertainment,Frustration,Addiction,Psychology,Operationalization,Substitution effect,Perception,Marketing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
258
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bidyut Hazarika121.41
Jiban Khuntia23617.32
Madhavan Parthasarathy319617.20
Jahangir Karimi454543.17