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Vol. 7 No. 4 (2016)
Original Research Article

To Communicate Co-Creation or Not? Examining the Effects on Brand and Product Perception

Marcel Weber
3CI Customer Co-Creation
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Rens Gruppelaar
Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
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Sjoerd Oosterhof
Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
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Published 2016-12-30

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Keywords

  • Brand attitude,
  • Purchase intention,
  • Word-of-mouth,
  • Customer co-creation,
  • Non-co-creating customers

How to Cite

Weber, M., Gruppelaar, R., & Oosterhof, S. (2016). To Communicate Co-Creation or Not? Examining the Effects on Brand and Product Perception. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 7(4), 169–181. https://doi.org/10.24867/IJIEM-2016-4-120

Abstract

Many scholars assert that co-creation with customers in new product and service development will have positive effects on the brand, innovation speed, innovation adoption and loyalty. Looking more closely at these assertions one comes to the finding that the majority of this research applies to the effect on customers that have been involved in the co-creation or co-creating customers, i.e. customers or users that have taken part in the co-creation process. Only few studies have investigated the effect of the co-creation on (potential) customers, which have not been involved in this co-creation, the so-called non-co-creating customers. This lack of research is remarkable, as co-creating customers generally only form a fraction of the total customer base of companies. This paper reports on two studies in the effects of co-creation in new product/service development on the larger part of the customer base, the non-co-creating customers. The studies focus on the brand and product effects of co-creation disclosure on these (potential) customers that have not been involved for complex luxury goods and for consumer services. Disclosure of the co-creation entails the communication or promotion by the company that the products have been developed through co-creation with other customers. It is found that co-creation disclosure can have positive effects on brand and product perception for services, confirming most extant findings. However, for luxury products this positive effect is not significant.

 

Article history: Received (02.11.2016); Revised (28.11.2016); Accepted (26.12.2016)  

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