Fairness in Segmentation and Targeting

While it is common to segment and target customers based on gender or race, these practices seem increasingly at odds with recent cultural movements (#MeToo, BLM). In this research, we find that consumers believe it is less to fair target groups based on demographics, relative to not targeting at all.



Citation:

Elizabeth Friedman, Franklin Shaddy, and Olivier Toubia (2021) ,"Fairness in Segmentation and Targeting", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49, eds. Tonya Williams Bradford, Anat Keinan, and Matthew Matthew Thomson, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 466-467.

Authors

Elizabeth Friedman, Columbia Business School
Franklin Shaddy, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Olivier Toubia, Columbia Business School



Volume

NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 49 | 2021



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