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- Title
Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing Customer Relationship Management.
- Authors
Dew, Ryan; Ascarza, Eva; Netzer, Oded; Sicherman, Nachum
- Abstract
Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior research has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines—which the authors define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal structures—for customer management. One reason for this dearth is the difficulty of measuring routines from transaction data, particularly when routines vary substantially across customers. The authors propose a new approach for doing so, which they apply in the context of ridesharing. They model customer-level routines with Bayesian nonparametric Gaussian processes, leveraging a novel kernel that allows for flexible yet precise estimation of routines. These Gaussian processes are nested in inhomogeneous Poisson processes of usage, allowing the authors to estimate customers' routines and decompose their usage into routine and nonroutine parts. They show the value of detecting routines for customer relationship management in the context of ridesharing, where they find that routines are associated with higher future usage and activity rates, and more resilience to service failures. Moreover, the authors show how these outcomes vary by the types of routines customers have, and by whether trips are part of the customer's routine, suggesting a role for routines in segmentation and targeting.
- Subjects
RIDESHARING; RIDESHARING services; CUSTOMER relations; CUSTOMER relationship management; BAYESIAN analysis; GAUSSIAN processes; MACHINE learning; CONSUMER behavior
- Publication
Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), 2024, Vol 61, Issue 2, p368
- ISSN
0022-2437
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00222437231189185