The Power of Before and After: How the Dirichlet Can Analyze the Sales Impact of a Promotional Activity
James McCabe
ABB
Philip Stern
Loughborough University
Scott G. Dacko
Warwick Business School
Management slant
- The Dirichlet is a well-established theoretical model that describes and predicts patterns of purchasing behavior in stationary markets.
- This paper uses data from a highly nonstationary market to demonstrate that the Dirichlet norms also provide a baseline to interpret change in purchasing behavior—in particular, the changes in market structure that result from a sustained marketing campaign.
- Organizational markets characterized by a concentration of large buyers exhibit deviations...