Identifying X-Consumers Using Causal Recipes: "Whales" and "Jumbo Shrimps" Casino Gamblers

X-consumers are the extremely frequent (top 2–3%) users who typically consume 25% of a product category. This article shows how to use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to provide “causal recipes” sufficient for profiling X-consumers accurately. The study extends Dik Twedt’s “heavy-ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Woodside, Arch, Zhang, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer New York LLC 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35424