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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Charles DennisORCiD, Professor Eleftherios AlamanosORCiD
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Although emotions have been investigated within strategic management literature from an internal perspective, managers ability and willingness to understand consumers emotions, with emphasis on retail sector, is still a scarcely explored theme in management research. The aim of this paper is to explore the match between the supply of new analytical tools and retail managers’ attitudes towards new tools to capture customers’ emotions. To this end, Study 1 uses machine learning algorithms to develop a new system to analytically detect emotional responses from customers’ static images (considering the exemplar emotions of happiness and sadness), whilst Study 2 consults management decision makers to explore the practical utility of such emotion recognition systems, finding a likely demand for a number of applications, albeit tempered by concern for ethical issues. While contributing to the retail management literature with regard to customers’ emotions and big data analytics, the findings also provide a new framework to support retail managers in using new analytics to survive and thrive in difficult times.
Author(s): Pantano E, Dennis C, Alamanos E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Management
Year: 2022
Volume: 33
Issue: 3
Pages: 1179-1199
Print publication date: 05/07/2022
Online publication date: 21/07/2021
Acceptance date: 05/07/2021
Date deposited: 09/07/2021
ISSN (print): 1045-3172
ISSN (electronic): 1467-8551
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12542
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12542
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