Escalation bias: does it extend to marketing?
J. Armstrong,
Nicole Coviello and
Barbara Safranek
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Abstract:
Escalation bias implies that managers favor reinvestments in projects that are doing poorly over those doing well. We tested this implication in a marketing context by conducting experiments on advertising and product-design decisions. Each situation was varied to reflect either a long-term or a short-term decision. Besides these four conditions, we conducted three replications. We found little evidence of escalation bias by 365 subjects in the seven experimental comparisons.
Keywords: escalation bias; marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-06
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Published in Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 21 (1993): pp. 247-253
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