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Published in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 5/2019

20-05-2019 | Original Empirical Research

A multi-facet item response theory approach to improve customer satisfaction using online product ratings

Authors: Ling Peng, Geng Cui, Yuho Chung, Chunyu Li

Published in: Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Issue 5/2019

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Abstract

While online platforms often provide a single composite rating and the ratings of different attributes of a product, they largely ignore the attribute characteristics and customer criticality, which limits managerial action. We propose a multi-facet item response theory (MFIRT) approach to simultaneously examine the effects of product attributes, reviewer criticality, consumption situation, product type, and time in assessing latent customer satisfaction. Analyses of hotel ratings from TripAdvisor and beer ratings from BeerAdvocate suggest that product attributes differ with respect to their discriminating and threshold characteristics and that reviewer segments emphasize different attributes when rating various products over time. The MFIRT approach predicts product performance more accurately than alternative methods and provides novel insights to inform marketing strategies. The MFIRT framework can fundamentally advance how we analyze customer satisfaction and other consumer attitudes and improve marketing research and practice.

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Footnotes
1
A summary table is included in Web Appendix A for interested readers to compare IRT and CTT in terms of their assumptions, mathematical model, nature of variables, precision of meaurement, and strengths and weaknesses.
 
2
Web Appendix D reports the details of multilevel GRM models. For each specified model, we run 5000 samples and discard them as burn-in. We use 20,000 iterations to generate the sample to estimate the parameters. We derive the attribute weights from the results of Model 2.
 
3
The ML-MFIRT commands implemented using SAS NLMIXED and detailed results are reported in Web Appendix E.
 
4
The reviewers of Tripadvisor are assigned a title (i.e., reviewers withouta title or those who are starting out as reviewers, senior reviewers, contributors, senior contributors, and top contributors) based on their increasing contributions.
 
5
To save space, we do not report the results of response category parameters in Table 4. Interested readers can check the detailed results in Table E1 of Web Appendix E.
 
6
The details of preprocessing and modeling in the text analysis of customer reviews are reported in Web Appendix F.
 
7
The detailed output is presented in Table E2 of Web Appendix E.
 
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Metadata
Title
A multi-facet item response theory approach to improve customer satisfaction using online product ratings
Authors
Ling Peng
Geng Cui
Yuho Chung
Chunyu Li
Publication date
20-05-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science / Issue 5/2019
Print ISSN: 0092-0703
Electronic ISSN: 1552-7824
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00662-w

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