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Rishika Rishika

Adjunct Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business

Selected Publications


Spring Forward = Fall Back? The Effect of Daylight Saving Time Change on Consumers’ Unhealthy Behavior

Journal Article Journal of Marketing · November 1, 2024 Prior research documents deleterious consequences of the annual clock change to daylight saving time in many contexts, but little is known about the effect the policy has on consumer behavior. While policy debates around ending seasonal clock changes conti ... Full text Cite

Brand-generated social media content and its differential impact on loyalty program members

Journal Article Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science · September 1, 2022 Social media and loyalty programs are mainstays of contemporary marketing, but despite their prominence—and their potential synergies—the two are seldom researched together. Here, drawing on the heuristic-systematic model, we theorize and demonstrate that ... Full text Cite

Really Rewarding Rewards: Strategic Licensing in Long-Term Healthy Food Consumption

Journal Article Journal of Consumer Research · August 1, 2022 Licensing is a well-documented form of justifying individual indulgent choices, but less is known about how licensing affects food decision-making patterns over time. Accordingly, we examine whether consumers incorporate licensing strategically and deliber ... Full text Cite

Competitive Effects of Front-of-Package Nutrition Labeling Adoption on Nutritional Quality: Evidence from Facts Up Front–Style Labels

Journal Article Journal of Marketing · November 1, 2020 “Facts Up Front” nutrition labels are a front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labeling system that presents key nutrient information on the front of packaged food and beverage products in an easy-to-read format. The authors conduct a large-scale empirical study ... Full text Cite

The effects of asymmetric social ties, structural embeddedness, and tie strength on online content contribution behavior

Journal Article Management Science · July 1, 2019 For a social media community to thrive and grow, it is critical that users of the site interact with each other and contribute content to the site. We study the role of social ties in motivating user preference expression, a form of user content contributi ... Full text Cite

The effect of a data breach announcement on customer behavior: Evidence from a multichannel retailer

Journal Article Journal of Marketing · March 1, 2018 In this study, the authors assess the effects of a data breach announcement (DBA) by a multichannel retailer on customer behavior. They exploit a natural experiment and use individual customer transaction data from the retailer to conduct a detailed and sy ... Full text Cite

Social dollars in online communities: The effect of product, user, and network characteristics

Journal Article Journal of Marketing · January 1, 2018 Online communities have experienced burgeoning popularity over the last decade and have become a key platform for users to share information and interests, and to engage in social interactions. Drawing on the social contagion literature, the authors examin ... Full text Cite

From social to sale: The effects of firm-generated content in social media on customer behavior

Journal Article Journal of Marketing · January 1, 2016 Given the unprecedented reach of social media, firms are increasingly relying on it as a channel for marketing communication. The objective of this study is to examine the effect of firm-generated content (FGC) in social media on three key customer metrics ... Full text Cite

The art of mistiming: How interruptions make mobile coupon campaigns effective

Journal Article Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice · December 1, 2015 With the explosion of the mobile web, companies and brands are relying more and more on inbound marketing, focusing on generating dialogues and providing customers with more relevant and customized ad content. Interruptions, which were often used as attent ... Full text Cite

The effect of customers' social media participation on customer visit frequency and profitability: An empirical investigation

Journal Article Information Systems Research · January 1, 2013 In this study we examine the effect of customers' participation in a firm's social media efforts on the intensity of the relationship between the firm and its customers as captured by customers' visit frequency. We further hypothesize and test for the mode ... Full text Cite