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Could a Product with Diverged Reviews Ratings Be Better?: The Change of Consumer Attitude Depending on the Converged vs. Diverged Review Ratings and Consumer's Regulatory Focus

평점이 수렴되지 않는 리뷰의 제품들이 더 좋을 수도 있을까?: 제품 리뷰평점의 분산과 소비자의 조절초점 성향에 따른 소비자 태도 변화

  • Yi, Eunju (Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin University) ;
  • Park, Do-Hyung (School of Management Information Systems / Graduate School of Business IT, Kookmin University)
  • 이은주 (국민대학교 비즈니스IT전문대학원) ;
  • 박도형 (국민대학교 경영정보학부/비즈니스IT전문대학원)
  • Received : 2021.08.20
  • Accepted : 2021.09.28
  • Published : 2021.09.30
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Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the size of the e-commerce has been increased rapidly. This pandemic, which made contact-less communication culture in everyday life made the e-commerce market to be opened even to the consumers who would hesitate to purchase and pay by electronic device without any personal contacts and seeing or touching the real products. Consumers who have experienced the easy access and convenience of the online purchase would continue to take those advantages even after the pandemic. During this time of transformation, however, the size of information source for the consumers has become even shrunk into a flat screen and limited to visual only. To provide differentiated and competitive information on products, companies are adopting AR/VR and steaming technologies but the reviews from the honest users need to be recognized as important in that it is regarded as strong as the well refined product information provided by marketing professionals of the company and companies may obtain useful insight for product development, marketing and sales strategies. Then from the consumer's point of view, if the ratings of reviews are widely diverged how consumers would process the review information before purchase? Are non-converged ratings always unreliable and worthless? In this study, we analyzed how consumer's regulatory focus moderate the attitude to process the diverged information. This experiment was designed as a 2x2 factorial study to see how the variance of product review ratings (high vs. low) for cosmetics affects product attitudes by the consumers' regulatory focus (prevention focus vs. improvement focus). As a result of the study, it was found that prevention-focused consumers showed high product attitude when the review variance was low, whereas promotion-focused consumers showed high product attitude when the review variance was high. With such a study, this thesis can explain that even if a product with exactly the same average rating, the converged or diverged review can be interpreted differently by customer's regulatory focus. This paper has a theoretical contribution to elucidate the mechanism of consumer's information process when the information is not converged. In practice, as reviews and sales records of each product are accumulated, as an one of applied knowledge management types with big data, companies may develop and provide even reinforced customer experience by providing personalized and optimized products and review information.

팬데믹(Pandemic)으로 인해 온라인 시장의 규모가 급속하게 커졌다. 일상에서의 비대면화는그동안 기술수용에 늦은 소비자마저 온라인구매의 편리함을 경험하게 하는 계기가 되었고, 이들은 팬데믹 이후에도 온라인구매의 이점을 선호하게 될 것이다. 하지만 이러한 변화의 시기에 소비자가 취할 수 있는 제품 정보는 편평한 디스플레이상의 시각적 정보만으로 축소되었다. 회사들은 차별적이고 경쟁력 있는 정보를 제공하기 위해 AR/VR, Streaming 기술 등을 도입하고 있지만, 정직한 사용자들이 남긴 리뷰는 회사가 제공하는 잘 가공된 정보만큼 소비자에게 강력하게 인식되고, 회사의 상품개발과 마케팅 및 판매 전략을 위한 인사이트를 얻을 수 있다는 점에서 중요하게 인식될 필요가 있다. 그렇다면 소비자의 입장에서, 구매 의사결정 전에 참고하는 리뷰의 평점이 크게 어긋난다면, 소비자들은 어떻게 리뷰정보를 처리할까? 수렴되지 않은 평점은 늘 신뢰할 수 없고 가치 없는 것일까? 본 연구에서는 소비자의 개인 성향으로 볼 수 있는 조절초점 성향이 어떻게 사고방식을 지배하여 수렴되지 않은 정보를 수용하고 처리하는지 보이고자 하였다. 실험은 화장품을 대상으로 제품 리뷰 평점의 분산(높음 vs 낮음)이 소비자의 조절초점(예방초점 vs. 향상초점)에 따라 제품 태도에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 2x2 연구로 설계하였다. 연구결과, 예방초점의 소비자는 분산이 작을 때 높은 제품 태도를 보이지만, 향상초점의 소비자는 분산이 클 때 높은 제품 태도를 보인다는 것을 발견하였다. 이와 같은 연구로, 본 논문은 동일한 평균값의 평가점수를 가진 제품이라도 후기의 분산 값에 따라 소비자의 조절초점 성향이 영향을 미쳐 제품 태도가 달라진다는 것을 설명할 수 있다. 본 논문은 평점이 수렴되지 않는 정보에 대한 소비자의 정보처리의 메커니즘을 밝힌 이론적 공헌이 있으며, 실무적으로 기업은 리뷰가 축적됨에 따라 개인화되고 최적화된 상품 정보를 제공하는 등 빅데이터를 바탕으로 지식경영을 응용한 고객경험설계가 가능함을 시사한다.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2020년 대한민국 교육부와 한국연구재단의 인문사회분야 중견연구자지원사업의 지원을 받아 수행된 연구임(NRF-2020S1A5A2A01040055)

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