Article ID: | iaor20113947 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 230 |
End Page Number: | 232 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
Journal: | Marketing Science |
Authors: | Iyengar Raghuram, Van den Bulte Christophe, Valente Thomas W |
Keywords: | social |
Building on the commentaries on our work, we make additional suggestions for future research on social contagion and new product diffusion. In particular, we note that social contagion may occur for many reasons and that investigating how various personal or group characteristics moderate the amount of influence some customers exert or the extent to which others are sensitive to potential influence can provide insights into the social mechanism(s) at work.