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How status shapes Objectivity in user-generated content

  • THIS PAPER PROVIDES EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF REVIEWER STATUS ONTHE OBJECTIVITY OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IN ONLINE COMMUNITIES. WHILE PREVIOUS RESEARCH INDICATES THAT USER-GENERATED ONLINE REVIEWS GUIDE CONSUMER DECISION MAKING, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT DRIVERS OF THE ACTUAL REVIEW GENERATION PROCESS. UTILIZING A DATA SAMPLE COVERING 413,077 REVIEWS POSTED OVER 12 YEARS ON TRIPADVISOR.COM, WE FIND THAT WITH INCREASED USER STATUS, REVIEW OBJECTIVITY INCREASES. THUS, WE CONTRIBUTE TO THEORY BY GENERALIZING THE SO-CALLED "POPULARITY EFFECT" TO A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL “STATUS EFFECT”.

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Author:Christian Janze, Michael Siering
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-579932
ISSN:1866-1238
Parent Title (English):EFL quarterly : an E-Finance Lab publication
Publisher:E-Finance Lab e.V.
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2016
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2021/01/28
Volume:2016
Issue:2
Page Number:3
First Page:6
Last Page:8
HeBIS-PPN:477486509
Institutes:Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / E-Finance Lab e.V.
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht