• DOI:10.1287/mksc.2015.0975
Corpus ID: 7356142

Social Responsibility and Product Innovation

@article{Iyer2016SocialRA,
  title={Social Responsibility and Product Innovation},
  author={G. Iyer and D. Soberman},
  journal={Mark. Sci.},
  year={2016},
  volume={35},
  pages={727-742}
}

• G. Iyer, D. Soberman
• Published 2016
• Computer Science, Economics
• Mark. Sci.

This paper examines the incentives of firms to invest in socially responsible product innovations. Our analysis connects the existence of socially responsible innovations to the presence of intrinsic and extrinsic social responsibility preferences. In addition to deriving economic value from the product, consumers have heterogeneous intrinsic needs to consume products that are socially responsible. They also have extrinsic social comparison preferences that are based on their meetings with… Expand

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