<p>This study introduces structured selectivity as a framework for understanding why firms respond to some consumer reviews but not others. Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm, we ask how organizational attention shapes managerial responsiveness in online review environments. We conceptualize responsiveness as a function of structural attention capacity and situational attention demand. Using 71 million Google reviews across ten industries, we estimate industry-level separate logistic models. Results show that routines shape responsiveness, while review-level cues (e.g., sentiment deviation, linguistic distinctiveness, effort) determine which reviews attract attention. The study contributes by reframing responsiveness as a conditional rather than an additive process, clarifying how organizational routines and contextual salience jointly govern visible engagement in large-scale digital feedback systems.</p>

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

Who gets a reply? Modeling managerial responses to online reviews across industries

  • Lavy Khoushinsky,
  • Arseny Kokotov

摘要

This study introduces structured selectivity as a framework for understanding why firms respond to some consumer reviews but not others. Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm, we ask how organizational attention shapes managerial responsiveness in online review environments. We conceptualize responsiveness as a function of structural attention capacity and situational attention demand. Using 71 million Google reviews across ten industries, we estimate industry-level separate logistic models. Results show that routines shape responsiveness, while review-level cues (e.g., sentiment deviation, linguistic distinctiveness, effort) determine which reviews attract attention. The study contributes by reframing responsiveness as a conditional rather than an additive process, clarifying how organizational routines and contextual salience jointly govern visible engagement in large-scale digital feedback systems.