Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions

<p dir="ltr">Online reviews play a significant role in shaping consumer purchase decisions. Accordingly, emergence of fake reviews has proliferated as an instrument to manipulate customers’ buying preferences. Such manifestation, however, lacks theoretical grounding and remains under...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Rahul Kumar (136775) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Shubhadeep Mukherjee (17773728) (author), Nripendra P. Rana (14047252) (author)
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Marketing
Information and computing sciences
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Information systems
E-commerce
Online reviews
Review manipulation
Product recommendation
Product discouragement
Purchase decisions
Text mining
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description <p dir="ltr">Online reviews play a significant role in shaping consumer purchase decisions. Accordingly, emergence of fake reviews has proliferated as an instrument to manipulate customers’ buying preferences. Such manifestation, however, lacks theoretical grounding and remains under researched due to two notable challenges: first, absence of conceptual underpinnings between consumers’ writing style and recommendation behavior. Second, little knowledge about the role of product characteristics underlying fake reviews and their influence on nudging product preferences. Through the lens of environmental psychology, this study uses an empirical investigation utilizing natural language processing (NLP) to uncover latent product-specific features underlying customer reviews and their impact on persuading buying preferences. As a major finding, we observe that characteristics underlying fake reviews, as opposed to genuine ones, fail to influence product recommendation or discouragement. Accordingly, we suggest firms permitting fake reviews on their portals to be aware of the limited economic advantages of such practices.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Information Systems Frontiers<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-023-10401-w" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-023-10401-w</a></p>
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spelling Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying DecisionsRahul Kumar (136775)Shubhadeep Mukherjee (17773728)Nripendra P. Rana (14047252)Commerce, management, tourism and servicesMarketingInformation and computing sciencesData management and data scienceInformation systemsE-commerceOnline reviewsReview manipulationProduct recommendationProduct discouragementPurchase decisionsText mining<p dir="ltr">Online reviews play a significant role in shaping consumer purchase decisions. Accordingly, emergence of fake reviews has proliferated as an instrument to manipulate customers’ buying preferences. Such manifestation, however, lacks theoretical grounding and remains under researched due to two notable challenges: first, absence of conceptual underpinnings between consumers’ writing style and recommendation behavior. Second, little knowledge about the role of product characteristics underlying fake reviews and their influence on nudging product preferences. Through the lens of environmental psychology, this study uses an empirical investigation utilizing natural language processing (NLP) to uncover latent product-specific features underlying customer reviews and their impact on persuading buying preferences. As a major finding, we observe that characteristics underlying fake reviews, as opposed to genuine ones, fail to influence product recommendation or discouragement. Accordingly, we suggest firms permitting fake reviews on their portals to be aware of the limited economic advantages of such practices.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Information Systems Frontiers<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-023-10401-w" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-023-10401-w</a></p>2023-05-24T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1007/s10796-023-10401-whttps://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Exploring_Latent_Characteristics_of_Fake_Reviews_and_Their_Intermediary_Role_in_Persuading_Buying_Decisions/24981717CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/249817172023-05-24T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
Rahul Kumar (136775)
Commerce, management, tourism and services
Marketing
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Information systems
E-commerce
Online reviews
Review manipulation
Product recommendation
Product discouragement
Purchase decisions
Text mining
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title Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
title_full Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
title_fullStr Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
title_full_unstemmed Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
title_short Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
title_sort Exploring Latent Characteristics of Fake Reviews and Their Intermediary Role in Persuading Buying Decisions
topic Commerce, management, tourism and services
Marketing
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Information systems
E-commerce
Online reviews
Review manipulation
Product recommendation
Product discouragement
Purchase decisions
Text mining