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Theoretical and Applied Economics (Mar 2024)

Two decades of research on affiliate marketing: a systematic literature review

  • Santroop TANWAR,
  • Prof. Praveen SAHU

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Rapid technological advancements have changed the way of communicating goods and services to customers. Businesses use different channels of advertising to promote their goods and services. Affiliate marketing has become the fastest-growing customer acquisition technique. Despite being a multi-billion-dollar industry, affiliate marketing has not seen considerable attention from the researcher’s point of view. Thus, this research introduces a systematic literature review on affiliate marketing and comprehensively analyses extant literature using different databases. The descriptive analysis infers the year in which the research has been published, the countries where the research has been performed, the research methodology used, and the journals where the literature has been published. The paper features the theories used by the previous researchers and classifies the literature into four major themes. Furthermore, the article also performs a citation analysis of the available literature to outline highly cited studies, authors, and journals using Google Scholar, Research Gate, and SCImago Journal Ranking. Keyword analysis has been imparted using bibliometrix R package to observe the different trends of research. This study enriches the current body of knowledge and concludes with an agenda for future research linked to the corresponding literature gaps.

  • affiliate marketing
  • affiliate risk
  • consumer perspective
  • systematic literature review
  • affiliate marketing operations
  • bibliometric

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research paper on affiliate marketing

  • DOI: 10.1362/146934717X14909733966092
  • Corpus ID: 67851114

Affiliate marketing: An overview and analysis of emerging literature

  • Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi
  • Published 2017
  • The Marketing Review

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Impact of Affiliate Marketing on E-Buying Behavior of Millennial – A TAM Based Approach With Text Analysis

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Dr. Indrajit Ghosal

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Bikram Prasad

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Mukti Behera

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Date Written: June 30, 2020

Owing to a subsequently high growth of digital technology penetration, firms are now directly targeting global customers and harnessing the benefits that the online channel offers to gain competitive advantage. In such case, Affiliate marketing has emerged as significant e-commerce strategies to increase sales mediated by incentive. The adoption of online shopping technology by millennial has been strengthened through affiliate marketing. The paper aims to evaluate the significant impact of affiliate marketing strategy on millennial attitude of shopping online .The implied findings have explored qualitatively the benefits of the affiliate marketing strategy and it’s association on the Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness. This have further substantiated Attitude and behavior towards using online shopping. A conceptual has been validated through qualitative investigation and Text Analysis of the reliable sources. The extracted findings will help stakeholders, ecommerce organizations, entrepreneurs to boost their existing operations of online shopping portals by adopting Affiliate Marketing strategy.

Keywords: Affiliate Marketing, E-buying attitude of Millennial, TAM model, Perceived ease of use, Perceived usefulness, Behavioral intention, Text Analysis

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