Predicting overall customer satisfaction: Big data evidence from hotel online textual reviews

被引:314
作者
Zhao, Yabing [1 ]
Xu, Xun [2 ]
Wang, Mingshu [3 ]
机构
[1] San Francisco State Univ, Coll Business, Dept Decis Sci, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
[2] Calif State Univ Stanislaus, Coll Business Adm, Dept Management Operat & Mkt, One Univ Circle, Turlock, CA 95382 USA
[3] Univ Georgia, Dept Geog, 210 Field St, Athens, GA 30602 USA
关键词
Online textual reviews; Technical attributes; Overall customer satisfaction; Hotel industry; Big data; WORD-OF-MOUTH; CONSUMER-GENERATED MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; IMPACT; MODEL; ANTECEDENTS; HELPFULNESS; EXPERIENCE; LANGUAGE;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijhm.2018.03.017
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Customer online reviews of hotels have significant business value in the e-commerce and big data era. Online textual reviews have an open-structured form, and the technical side, namely the linguistic attributes of online textual reviews, is still largely under-explored. Using a sample of 127,629 reviews from tripadvisor.com, this study predicts overall customer satisfaction using the technical attributes of online textual reviews and customers' involvement in the review community. We find that a higher level of subjectivity and readability and a longer length of textual review lead to lower overall customer satisfaction, and a higher level of diversity and sentiment polarity of textual review leads to higher overall customer satisfaction. We also find that customers' review involvement positively influences their overall satisfaction. We provide implications for hoteliers to better understand customer online review behavior and implement efficient online review management actions to use electronic word of mouth and enhance hotels' performance.
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页码:111 / 121
页数:11
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