Paper Info
Title
Understanding Customer Satisfaction With Services by Leveraging Big Data: The Role of Services Attributes and Consumers' Cultural Background.
Abstract
User-generated content and online reviews (ORs) are becoming an increasingly relevant source of information for online customers who use them for purchasing decisions. This paper examines the impact of services attributes and consumers' cultural background on customer satisfaction with services in an online setting using big data. First, almost half a million expedia.com hotel ORs related to hotel properties located in five different countries (U.S., U.K., Italy, Spain, and Russia) were retrieved. Second, the resulting dataset was used to investigate if and to what extent the overall customer satisfaction with a service is affected by the evaluation of specific hotel services' attributes (operationalized based on an established typology of attributes) and by the consumers' cultural background (operationalized by means of Hoftstede's framework). Comprehensive multivariate regression analysis is carried out to test the formulated literature-driven hypotheses. In particular, the analysis reveals that critical service attributes, such as hotel condition, room comfort, service and staff, and cleanliness, positively affect the overall online satisfaction ratings. The cultural dimensions of power distance, individualism, and uncertainty avoidance negatively affect the overall online satisfaction, while long-term orientation and indulgence positively affect online satisfaction. Masculinity seems not to play a significant role. We also observe that reviews' text length exerts a negative impact on online ratings. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2887300
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Big data,online reviews,online rating,expedia.com,hotel,cultural differences
Customer satisfaction,Masculinity,Computer science,Computer network,Typology,Uncertainty avoidance,Purchasing,Operationalization,Big data,Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory,Marketing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcello Mariani111.07
Giuseppe Di Fatta252939.23
Marco Di Felice352548.86