• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.181-185
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• 2022

고객들은 조작된 온라인 리뷰가 범람하는 가운데 진정성과 가치를 지닌 리뷰를 보고자한다. 귀인 이론(Attribution theory)의 관점에서, 사람들은 리뷰어의 과거 평가 이력을 바탕으로 리뷰가 진정성 있는지를 판단하는 경향이 있다. 이러한 배경에서 본 연구의 목적은 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 조작된 리뷰로 인식하는 것에 어떠한 영향을 미치며, 최종적으로 리뷰 유용성이 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보는 것이다. 제안된 가설을 검증하기 위해 2차 데이터 분석(연구1)과 실험(연구2)을 수행했으며, 두 연구는 일관된 결과를 보여준다. 연구 1은 리뷰어의 과거 평가 이력이 리뷰 유용성에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 귀인이론에 근거하면, 사람들은 리뷰를 다른 목적을 가지고 작성되었다고 인식할 경우에 리뷰가 조작되었다고 생각하고, 그 리뷰가 물건이나 서비스의 진정한 가치를 평가하지 않았다고 간주한다. 따라서 해당 리뷰는 유용성이 낮게 평가되는 경향이 있다. 2차 데이터를 분석하기 위해 우리는 Python을 이용한 웹 스크레이퍼를 개발하여 TripAdvisor(TripAdvisor.com)에서 호텔 정보, 리뷰, 리뷰 정보 등의 연구 데이터를 수집하였다. 수집한 890명 리뷰어에 대한 100,621개의 리뷰를 분석하기 위해 음이항 회귀 분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과, 평균 평점을 낮게 주는 리뷰어의 경우에 리뷰 유용성에 유의미한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 사람들은 극단적인 평점을 거의 주지 않는 리뷰어가 작성한 리뷰가 더 도움이 된다고 평가했다. 연구 2는 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력을 기준으로 리뷰가 조작되었다고 평가하는 사람들의 인식 프로세스를 실험하였다. 실험 결과, 사람들은 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 평균적으로 평점을 낮게 주는 경우에는 리뷰가 의심스럽다고 판단하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 사람들은 리뷰어가 대부분 극단적인 평점을 주는 이력이 있다면 해당 리뷰어가 작성한 리뷰가 의심스럽다고 판단하는 것으로 나타났다. 연구2는 사람들이 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력을 바탕으로 리뷰가 조작되었는지 또는 리뷰가 도움이 되는지 판단하는 경향이 있음을 보여준다. 본 연구는 귀인이론을 바탕으로 리뷰어의 과거 평점 이력이 리뷰 조작성에 대한 인식과 리뷰 유용성에 미치는 영향을 분석하여, 해당 연구분야에 새로운 관점을 추가한 기여점이 있다.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.229-251
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• 2022

Online reviews are useful for other consumers to make reasonable purchase decisions by providing previous buyers' experiences. However, when online reviewers are biased, online reviews do not accurately reflect the true quality of the product. Therefore, we investigated the characteristics of reviewers with underreporting bias to cope with the problem of declining reliability of online reviews. In this context, this study attempted to examine the characteristics of reviewers with underreporting bias using 14,165 reviews of Steam, an online game platform. As a result of the analysis, reviewers with underreporting bias mainly write reviews positively, write reviews within a short period from the game release date, but tend to write reviews after playing games for longer time, and write reviews when purchasing high-priced games. Since this study has explored the characteristics of reviewers showing underreporting bias, it will be meaningful as a basic study to cope with the problem caused by underreporting bias.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.253-276
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• 2022

Online reviews attract much attention because they play an essential role in consumer decision-making. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the review attributes that affect the perceived helpfulness of consumers. However, most previous studies on the helpfulness of online reviews mainly focus on quantitative factors such as review volume and reviewer attributes. Recently, some studies have investigated the impact of review content and linguistic style matching on consumers' purchase decision-making. Those studies show that consumers consider additional review attributes when evaluating reviews in decision-making. To fill the research gap with existing literature, we investigated the impact of review content and linguistic style matching on review helpfulness. Moreover, this study investigated how the reviewers' expertise moderates the effect of the review content and linguistic style matching on the review helpfulness. The empirical results show that positive affective content has a negative effect on the review helpfulness. The negative affective content and linguistic style matching positively affect review helpfulness. Review expertise relieved the impact of negative affective content and linguistic style matching on review helpfulness. According to the mechanism confirmed in this study, online e-commerce companies can achieve corporate sales growth by identifying factors affecting review helpfulness and reflecting them in their marketing strategies.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.93-112
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• 2011

For the success of an online retail market, it is important to allow consumers to get more helpful reviews by figuring out the factors determining the helpfulness of online reviews. On the basis of elaboration likelihood model, this study analyzes which factors determine the helpfulness of reviews and how the factors affecting the helpfulness of an online consumer review differ for product price. For this study, 75,226 online consumer reviews were collected from Amazon.com. Furthermore, additional information on review messages was also gathered by carrying out a content analysis on the review messages. This study shows that both of peripheral cues such as review rating and reviewer's credibility and central cues such as word count of review message and the proportion of negative words influence the helpfulness of review. In addition, the result of this study reveals that each consumer focuses on different information sources of reviews depending on the product price.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.23-43
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• 2024

Nowadays, online reviews have become a common word of mouth that many users produce and consume. Posting online reviews is a kind of job that consumers do themselves. Since posting online reviews is not mandatory, it entirely relies on the consumer's voluntary willingness. In this respect, this study aims to describe the motivation for posting online reviews and their behavior processes, such as why online reviewers generate reviews and what types of reviews they create. In this study, we have conducted an in-depth study with 18 participants who have experience in posting reviews. By analyzing interview manuscripts from the grounded theory method approach, we have ultimately presented motivating factors for review posting (mutual reciprocity, material rewards), determinants of review browsing (trust toward review contents, preference for review format), and shadow work (a job that must be done, voluntary data production, consumer's share). We have also proposed the dynamics between core dimensions for theorizing a cycle process of review production and consumption. Our findings could bridge the gap in the existing online review research and offer practical implications for platform companies that need review management.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.3-17
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• 2013

As electronic marketplaces grow and a large number of consumers exchange their opinions on products and services on the Internet, many studies have been conducted in the area of online consumer reviews. This paper analyzes the research trend of the online consumer reviews by investigating those studies in an attempt to provide future research directions. Many researchers have focused on the effects of online reviews on consumer behaviors as well as the usefulness of the online reviews. In particular, review contents, characteristics of reviewers/consumers and features of products/services have been identified as influencing factors on the effects of the online consumer reviews. For the review contents, the number and the volume of the contents have increasing effects on the online reviews, while the direction (positive vs. negative) of the contents has resulted in conflicting effects of the review. The reputation and trustfulness of reviewers, consumers' prior knowledge on the products, consumers' product involvement, and types of the products were investigated as these factors influence the effectiveness of the online consumer reviews. Social media (such as Facebook and Twitter) nowadays play an important role to disseminate online reviews among consumers. Thus, it is necessary to study how social media influence the effects of online reviews on consumers. Since some firms abuse the online reviews for their own sakes, we recognize the necessity for empirical studies on the side effects of the online reviews.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.173-192
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• 2024

The phenomenon of consumers referring to the opinions of other consumers when choosing a hotel based on review platforms is rapidly increasing. Previous research has mainly focused on how online reviews affect travelers' information acceptance and decision making. However, there are only a few studies on how hotels' CSR activities are reflected in online reviews and how this information affects potential consumers. As the importance of CSR in the hotel industry continues to grow, it is meaningful to analyze whether a hotel's CSR activities are communicated to other potential consumers through online reviews. In this study, we explored the relationship by considering the reviewer's culture as a leading factor of CSR information included in online reviews and review usefulness as a subsequent factor. For empirical analysis, 6,632 online reviews of hotels located in Seoul were collected and analyzed using multilevel regression analysis. The LIWC(Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) methodology was used to measure CSR information, and national culture was measured separately into East and West. As a result of the analysis, consumers in Asian countries tend to write relatively more CSR information in online reviews, and CSR information included in reviews had a positive effect on review usefulness.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.153-160
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• 2021

With the advent of the "age of video" due to the simplification of video content production and the convenience of broadcasting channel operation, review videos on various products are drawing attention. We proposes RASIA, an integrated reliability analysis system based on verbal and nonverbal sentiment analysis of review videos. RASIA extracts and quantifies each emotional value obtained through language sentiment analysis and facial analysis of the reviewer in the video. Subsequently, we conduct an integrated reliability analysis of standardized verbal and nonverbal sentimental values. RASIA provide an new objective indicator to evaluate the reliability of the review video.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.316-330
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• 2020

The study analyzes reviews of hardware products, customer service products, and products that take the form of a convergence of hardware and cloud services in ICT using text mining. We derive keywords of each review and find the differentiation of words that are used to derive topics. A cluster analysis is performed to categorize reviews into their respective clusters. Through this study, we observed which keywords are most often used for each product type and found topics that express the characteristics of products and services using topic modeling. We derived keywords such as "professional" and "technician" which are topics that suggest the excellence of the service provider in the review of service products. Further, we identified adjectives with positive connotations such as "favorite", "fine", "fun", "nice", "smart", "unlimited", and "useful" from Amazon Eco review, an integrated product and service. Using the cluster analysis, the entire review was clustered into three groups, and three product type reviews exclusively resulted in belonging to each different cluster. The study analyzed the differences whereby consumer needs are expressed differently in reviews depending on the type of product and suggested that it is necessary to differentiate product planning and marketing promotion according to the product type in practice.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.11
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• pp.30-40
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• 2021

Ratings and reviews, despite their growing influence on restaurants' sales and reputation, entail a few limitations due to the burgeoning of reviews and inaccuracies in rating systems. This study explores the texts in reviews and ratings of a delivery application and discovers ways to elevate review credibility and usefulness. Through a text mining method, we concluded that the delivery application 'Yogiyo' has (1) a five-star oriented rating dispersion, (2) a strong positive correlation between rating factors (taste, quantity, and delivery) and (3) distinct part of speech and morpheme proportions depending on review polarity. We created a chicken-specialized negative word dictionary under four main topics and 20 sub-topic classifications after extracting a total of 367 negative words. We provide insights on how the research on delivery app reviews should progress, centered on fried chicken reviews.