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The Perception of Usefulness: Iranian Customers' Evaluation of Customer Reviews

Over the last decade, the retail industry has had a phenomenal growth. All figures show their success and efficiency and many studies have shown the role of customer reviews in encouraging ambivalent purchasers to buy items online. There have been numerous studies on why people read and trust these comments and taking for granted the important role of customer reviews in determining buying decision, this study endeavors to identify and explain the different factors involved in making a comment "useful". We took an Iranian retail website and collected comments on perceived "usefulness" of each review. Our results showed that perceived level of usefulness was related to the word count of the comments, personal experience of the writer with the product, emotional description of the product, and mentioning the strength/weakness points of the product.

The Perception of Usefulness: Iranian Customers' Evaluation of Customer Reviews

Urheber*in: Shahghasemi, Ehsan; Hajijafari, Mojtaba; Shirzadifard, Maysam; Ahmadzadeh, Mostafa

Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 International

ISSN
2538-6255
Extent
Seite(n): 89-102
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Cyberspace Studies, 2(1)

Subject
Wirtschaft
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Marketing
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Kaufverhalten
Produkt
Iran
Einzelhandel
Online-Dienst
interaktive Medien
Internet
Bewertung
Kunde
elektronische Medien

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Shahghasemi, Ehsan
Hajijafari, Mojtaba
Shirzadifard, Maysam
Ahmadzadeh, Mostafa
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2018

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57747-1
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Shahghasemi, Ehsan
  • Hajijafari, Mojtaba
  • Shirzadifard, Maysam
  • Ahmadzadeh, Mostafa

Time of origin

  • 2018

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