Information multidimensionality in online customer reviews
研究了在线产品评论中嵌入的感官、认知、情感和社会四维信息，通过亚马逊评论数据证实这些维度对潜在客户的诊断价值有显著影响，且效果因产品类别和评论观点而异。
Online customer reviews, as customer experience sharing, contain multiple dimensions of information that have rarely been systematically examined in prior research. Drawing from the customer experience literature, this research analyzes four dimensions of information embedded in online product reviews—namely, sensory information, cognitive information, affective information, and social information—and illustrates their importance by examining their diagnostic value to prospective customers. An empirical study on Amazon online reviews confirms that all four dimensions of information have significant effects on the diagnostic value of online reviews to prospective customers. Moreover, these effects are heterogeneous, contingent on the contextual conditions of product categories and review opinions. The study and findings of information multidimensionality provide a sound framework to glean insights into the rich content in online reviews and other electronic word-of-mouth content, which is crucial to understand customers’ pre-purchase information needs and experience journeys.