Companies have recently begun to use the Internet to integrate their customers more actively into various phases of the new product development process. One such strategy involves empowering customers to cooperate in selecting the product concepts to be marketed by the firm. In such scenarios,...

Luxury brands have started to offer consumers the opportunity to customize their exclusive products by making certain aesthetic decisions such as the color, fabric, or cut of their products. A robust finding in the marketing literature is that consumers place a greater value on customized versus...