Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews

Abstract: This study aims to analyze which factors related to smartphone users’ satisfaction emerge from online reviews. In addition, as the study was conducted in Brazil which is a developing country with a lot of regional diversity, a secondary aim of this study is to test whether region...

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Autores principales: Malaquias,Fernanda Francielle de Oliveira, Silva Júnior,Romes Jorge da
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420200001000032020-07-06Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online ReviewsMalaquias,Fernanda Francielle de OliveiraSilva Júnior,Romes Jorge da Online reviews IT users’ satisfaction Regionality Smartphone Users Electronic Commerce Abstract: This study aims to analyze which factors related to smartphone users’ satisfaction emerge from online reviews. In addition, as the study was conducted in Brazil which is a developing country with a lot of regional diversity, a secondary aim of this study is to test whether regional aspects can affect users’ satisfaction level. Online reviews were analyzed through the Content Analysis technique. Next, we carried out a quantitative analysis using Ordinal Logistic Regression. The results showed that smartphones’ features related to hardware and software and sellers’ characteristics may significantly affect users’ satisfaction. The socioeconomic factor, represented by the GDP per capita of the cities where users live, had a significant and negative impact, indicating that users in more economically developed regions attribute lower satisfaction level to smartphones. This study contributes to the literature as it used online reviews as data source, which helps identifying factors related to users’ satisfaction beyond those analyzed in previous studies that applied questionnaires.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.15 n.1 20202020-05-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242020000100003en10.4067/S0718-27242020000100003
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topic Online reviews
IT users’ satisfaction
Regionality
Smartphone Users
Electronic Commerce
spellingShingle Online reviews
IT users’ satisfaction
Regionality
Smartphone Users
Electronic Commerce
Malaquias,Fernanda Francielle de Oliveira
Silva Júnior,Romes Jorge da
Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
description Abstract: This study aims to analyze which factors related to smartphone users’ satisfaction emerge from online reviews. In addition, as the study was conducted in Brazil which is a developing country with a lot of regional diversity, a secondary aim of this study is to test whether regional aspects can affect users’ satisfaction level. Online reviews were analyzed through the Content Analysis technique. Next, we carried out a quantitative analysis using Ordinal Logistic Regression. The results showed that smartphones’ features related to hardware and software and sellers’ characteristics may significantly affect users’ satisfaction. The socioeconomic factor, represented by the GDP per capita of the cities where users live, had a significant and negative impact, indicating that users in more economically developed regions attribute lower satisfaction level to smartphones. This study contributes to the literature as it used online reviews as data source, which helps identifying factors related to users’ satisfaction beyond those analyzed in previous studies that applied questionnaires.
author Malaquias,Fernanda Francielle de Oliveira
Silva Júnior,Romes Jorge da
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Silva Júnior,Romes Jorge da
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title Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
title_short Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
title_full Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
title_fullStr Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
title_full_unstemmed Smartphone Users’ Satisfaction and Regional Aspects:Factors that Emerge from Online Reviews
title_sort smartphone users’ satisfaction and regional aspects:factors that emerge from online reviews
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2020
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