Managing responses to online reviews: an opportunity for value co-creation?

Francesca Negri, Vania Vigolo and Angelo Bonfanti

MERCATI & COMPETITIVIT?, 2016, vol. 2016/1, issue 1, 103-122

Abstract: Companies use social media differently according to their mental models and specific historical antecedents. Accordingly, service providers? online interactions with customers can produce different results in terms of value creation. This qualitative study explores the provider?s role in value (co)-creation in social-media contexts. More specifically, it analyses providers? reactions (i.e. responses and non-responses) to usergenerated reviews and investigates what type of value creation derives from the customer-provider online interaction. For this purpose, we collected hotel responses publicly available on TripAdvisor, using the web-based ethnography method. To analyse the data, we combined the social media sensemaking model proposed by Ryd?n et al. with the value-creation framework proposed by Gr?nroos and Voima. The findings contribute to the literature about online value co-creation by suggesting a taxonomy of providers? reactions to online reviews. As regards managerial implications, we provide recommendations for formulating responses to online reviews.

Date: 2016
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