Technology sourcing for website personalization and social media marketing: A study of e-retailing industry

Poonam Oberoi, Chirag Patel and Christophe Haon

Journal of Business Research, 2017, vol. 80, issue C, 10-23

Abstract: Extant streams of literature on technology sourcing, website personalization and social media marketing are distinct from one another and hence are unable to explain the impact of technology sourcing for website personalization and social media marketing on sales. To address this gap, we use various concepts such as efficiency, adaptability, risks of dependency, lack of quality control, asset-specificity and tacit knowledge to hypothesize the direct effect of technology sourcing on sales as well as the indirect effect through social media performance. Using survey data from 105 U.S. e-retailers, we show that e-retailers using mixed technology sourcing for website personalization have greater sales than e-retailers that use either internally or externally developed technology. On the contrary, e-retailers selecting externally developed technology for social media marketing have greater sales than e-retailers that offer social media marketing that uses either internally developed technology or mixed technology sourcing.

Keywords: Technology sourcing; Website personalization; Social media marketing; Market performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.06.005

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