Trade-offs and synergies of digital choice environments: Towards a taxonomy and configurational model

Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer (), Marvin Auf der Landwehr, Nicole Lüddemann and Christoph Viebahn
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Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer: Faculty IV–Business and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Marvin Auf der Landwehr: Faculty IV–Business and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Nicole Lüddemann: Faculty IV–Business and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Christoph Viebahn: Faculty IV–Business and Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Electronic Markets, 2024, vol. 34, issue 1, No 34, 21 pages

Abstract: Abstract The advancing digitalization of daily life has led to an increasing number of choices in the digital sphere. User interfaces that require either a judgment or a decision, the so-called digital choice environments (DCEs), are essential focal points for interventions to alter behaviors towards individual or societal welfare. However, there is a lack of descriptive and prescriptive knowledge within the field of DCEs. In this research, we follow a multi-stage approach to classify the characteristics of DCEs from a choice-centric viewpoint and disclose configurational trade-offs. To achieve this, we first build a taxonomy of DCEs that we validate through expert interviews. Subsequently, we use cluster analysis to identify four configurations of DCEs, which serve as the basis for the development of a configurational model that outlines configuration-specific user outcomes. Our results contribute to the existing knowledge of digital value creation as well as the explanatory understanding of trade-offs among different DCEs.

Keywords: Taxonomy; Digital choice environments; Configurational model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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