How sales promotion influences consumers' physical exercise and purchase behaviors: evidence from mobile exercise app data

Jang, Seongsoo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5948-0876, Kim, Hwang and Rao, Vithala R. 2023. How sales promotion influences consumers' physical exercise and purchase behaviors: evidence from mobile exercise app data. Information Technology & People 10.1108/ITP-11-2021-0902

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Abstract

Purpose Firms can benefit from designing sales promotion based on the analysis of consumers' physical exercise and purchase data. This study aims to study mobile exercise app data to explore how purchasing a promoted or nonpromoted product affects exercisers’ subsequent exercise and purchase behaviors. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from the theoretical framework of overjustification effect, this study empirically examines the effects of the purchase of promoted – monetary and nonmonetary – or nonpromoted products on relationships (1) between past and subsequent exercise behaviors and (2) between past exercise and subsequent purchase behaviors. Novel data of one million exercise activities and purchase transactions created by 7,517 mobile exercise app users were collected. Findings The results reveal that monetary and nonmonetary promotions have a negative effect on overall consumers’ amount of physical exercise but increase heavy exercisers’ exercise amount. In addition, nonmonetary (monetary) promotion has a positive (negative) effect on consumers’ purchase expenditure but has no moderating effect on the exercise–expenditure relationship. Originality/value This study provides a theoretical framework explaining how to mitigate the dark side of sales promotions while targeting right exercise consumer segments with the right promotion campaigns.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	0959-3845
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 May 2023
Date of Acceptance:	17 May 2023
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 20:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159570

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