The effects of source credibility and salience on sales performance: a study of corporate art collectors

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Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • K. Kubacki
Book title Ideas in Marketing: Finding the New and Polishing the Old
Book subtitle Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference
ISBN
  • 9783319109503
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319109510
Series Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
Event 2013 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference
Pages (from-to) 710-713
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam Business School Research Institute (ABS-RI)
Abstract Signaling theory (Spence, 1973) focuses on using signals as proxies of quality and helps explain how signals reduce uncertainties in pre-purchase decision-making. Signals convey information about a product or producer’s unobservable or indiscernible quality (Kirmani and Rao, 2000), and are important in all markets but particularly those with informational gaps (Akerlof, 1970), where for example, product quality is difficult to determine prior to consumption (Nelson, 1970) or perhaps even after consumption (Darby and Karni, 1973).
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10951-0_262
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