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Frustration-based promotions: Field experiments in ride-sharing

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20 oct. 2021   11h00 — 12h00

Maxime Cohen Professeur titulaire, Faculté de gestion Desautels, Université McGill, Canada

Jacques Desrosiers

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The service industry has become increasingly competitive. One of the main drivers for increasing profits and market share is service quality. When consumers encounter a bad experience, or a frustration, they may be tempted to stop using the service. In collaboration with the ride-sharing platform Via, our goal is to understand the benefits of proactively compensating customers who have experienced a frustration. Motivated by historical data, we consider two types of frustrations: long waiting times and long travel times. We design and run three field experiments to investigate how different types of compensation affect the engagement of riders who experienced a frustration. We find that sending proactive compensation to frustrated riders (i) is profitable and boosts their engagement behavior, (ii) works well for long waiting times but not for long travel times, (iii) seems more effective than sending the same offer to nonfrustrated riders, and (iv) has an impact moderated by past usage frequency. We also observe that the best strategy is to send credit.

(joint work with Baek Jung Kim and Michael-David Fiszer)

Mehmet Gumus responsable
Olivier Bahn responsable

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