Co-creation of background music: A key to innovating coffee shop management
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Congruence of background music (BGM) and approach behavior
Ever since Kotler (1973) emphasized the importance of the environmental atmosphere where exchanges and services take place, atmospherics, the planned control and structuring of environmental cues, have been widely explored. As consumers are largely affected by physical stimuli at the point of purchase, managers consider the manipulation of atmospherics an important marketing strategy for most exchange environments. Given that such atmospheric planning often determines the difference between
Study 1
Based on the congruity effect which holds that congruent (vs. incongruent) BGM leads to patrons’ approach (vs. avoidance) behavior, Study 1 examines the mediating role of perceived mood and the moderating role of co-creation.
Study 2
The primary aim of study 2 is to rule out the alternative explanation that the increase in approach behavior in study 1 is due to the presence of diverse options rather than the co-creation behavior. Study 2 comprises a field study at Arigatto, a coffee shop newly opened in Seoul, South Korea (see Appendix B) that mainly sells coffee along with a few non-alcoholic drinks.
Discussion
Our work yields important theoretical contributions. The first contribution lies in incorporating the coffee shop environment into the scope of research. Until recently, little attention has been paid to the coffee shop environment (Mandila and Gerogiannis, 2012) compared to other service environments such as supermarkets (Duncan Herrington, 1996), restaurants/cafeterias/bars (Milliman, 1986), shopping malls/department stores (Dubé and Morin, 2001), banks (North et al., 2000), and wine shops (
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to Moonkyung Cha, Cheonglim Lee, and Yeojin Ha for allowing data collection in their classes. We would also like to express sincere gratitude to Steve Ha and Soyeon Jeong for their support in designing and refining the online experiment. Our special thanks go to Injoo Kim, the owner of Arigatto, for his permission to conduct a field study in his coffee shop.
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