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ABSTRACT: Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) has surpassed conventional marketing tools in influencing
consumers in the Internet era. Thus, eWOM is gaining increasing attention from scholars and practical
marketers in various industries. In this regard, this review paper focuses on factors that determine eWOM
persuasiveness. We applied the systematic review technique to analyze content of 45 related articles. Our
findings show that argument quality and source credibility are two major determinants of eWOM
persuasiveness that have been addressed in a huge number of existing studies. In adition, some other factors
that influence eWOM are found in recent emerging studies include source, consumer expertise and tie strength.
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Determinants of eWOM Persuasiveness - ALiterature Review AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) has surpassed conventional marketing tools in influencing
consumers in the Internet era. Thus, eWOM is gaining increasing attention from scholars and practical
marketers in various industries. In this regard, this review paper focuses on factors that determine eWOM
persuasiveness. We applied the systematic review technique to analyze content of 45 related articles. Our
findings show that argument quality and source credibility are two major determinants of eWOM
persuasiveness that have been addressed in a huge number of existing studies. In adition, some other factors
that influence eWOM are found in recent emerging studies include source, consumer expertise and tie strength.
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28th Workshop on Information Systems and EconomicsYunkun Zhao, PhD
The document discusses evaluating the effectiveness of different online customer touchpoints in omni-channel retailing environments. It identifies three gaps in previous research: a focus on distribution channels rather than information channels, consideration of only within-brand effects rather than cross-brand effects, and ignoring interdependencies among touchpoints. The study aims to address these gaps by analyzing a unique dataset from an omni-channel retailer to understand the relative impact of owned, paid, and earned media touchpoints on customer demand, including potential cross-brand effects and interdependencies among touchpoints. Preliminary results indicate customers on average spend 51 RMB, purchase 0.163 items with a 14.432% conversion rate given their exposures to different touchpoint media.
This document summarizes a research paper that examined how electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) influences online consumers' purchasing decisions. It developed an information adoption model to understand what factors encourage consumers to accept and adopt online consumer reviews. The model was tested using data from users of the online customer community Openrice.com. The research found that comprehensiveness and relevance of the information were the most influential components of argument quality, making them key drivers of information adoption. Only 46% of variance in adoption was explained however, indicating there may be additional motivational factors beyond information usefulness alone.
This document provides a literature review on studies related to the role of technology in banking services. It summarizes 15 previous studies on topics like mobile banking adoption, factors influencing customer satisfaction, internet banking usage and security, and evaluations of various banks' online service quality. The studies were conducted in several countries and used various research methods like surveys, data analysis, and models. Overall, the literature review covers a range of past work examining the impact of technological developments on banking customer experiences and bank operations.
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SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL - UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
NSW Taxi Industry
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Understanding consumer behaviour and building a
unique selling proposition
MGNT922 - BUSINESS RESEARCH PROJECT
Name: Phuong Nguyen
Student ID: 5961294
Word count: 3,918
Acknowledgement
The research has been conducted under the guidance of Ms. Zeynep Roberts, Coordinator and Lecturer of MGNT922 Business Research Project at Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong. We thank Ms. Roberts for providing knowledge and expertise that substantially assisted this research.
Moreover, we would also like to acknowledge with gratitude the support of all participants. Their insights were of fundamental importance to the understanding of the research problem, and the study would not have been possible without these individuals.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction 5
II. Literature review 5
III. Research methodology 11
IV. Analysis and Interpretation 13
V. Conclusion 16
References 18
Executive Summary
The study aims to understand the competitive position and differentiation of the point-to-point transport service market, which is achieved through the understanding of consumer behaviour and attitudes towards services in the category. The report is divided into five main sections, namely introduction of the industry and problem under study, extensive literature review, research methodology, analysis and interpretation, and conclusion.
The introduction provides an introduction of the research and the overview of the NSW Taxi industry with its challenges to overcome. The report then provides a critical review of four relevant literatures linked to the research problem and questions. In this section, Katz's four functional theories of attitudes acts as a guidance for determining the underlying motives of consumer behaviour and attitudes. The second model reviewed is the innovation adoption model, which is directly linked to the creation of the unique selling proposition. The third model assesses the habitual, cognitive and affective decisions included in the consumer decision making process, while the last model mentioned is the three levels of product, which offers the view that a service is composed of factors beyond physical features, but also a complex combination of attributes and benefits.
The study employs both primary and secondary research, which consists of in-depth interview to collect qualitative data from a sample of 5, and survey to gather quantitative data using SurveyMonkey with a sample of 50. Moreover, secondary research retrieves information from online databases such as journal articles and news articles. The research employs samples of adults living in Sydney who use the taxi service at least monthly, with the sample being drawn using non-probability sample design and online sampling due to its ability to reach a wider range of people within a limited timeframe. However, the research has certa.
2010 a comparison of adoption models for new mobile media services between hi...Joon Ho Kim
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Original Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969698919314882.
This study examines the effects of personalization and hedonic motivation on customer experience and its loyalty outcomes in omnichannel retail context. The study develops eight hypotheses which are tested using two survey samples (Finland (n = 2084) and Sweden (n = 2334). In addition, empirical analysis includes 20 semi-structured interviews. The findings support all the hypotheses confirming the positive relationships personalization and hedonic motivation have on cognitive and emotional customer experience components. Further, the positive effects of customer experience on loyalty are confirmed. The results provide both theoretical and managerial insights for improved CX and customer loyalty.
This document discusses how peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firms can enhance customer acquisition through achieving mobile social media popularity. It finds that mobile social media popularity positively influences customer acquisition, as followers on social media are potential customers. It also examines how heuristic cues like source credibility and content freshness, as well as systematic cues like transaction relevance, can affect a firm's mobile social media popularity. The challenges of achieving high popularity on mobile social media are greater than traditional social media due to issues like information overload and limited screen size. However, little research has looked at what cues from traditional social media still apply to mobile, and what new guidance is needed for high popularity on mobile platforms.
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THE EXPLORATORY RESEARCH OF THE EFFECT COMMUNICATION MODEL AND EFFECT IMPROVI...ijma
Interactive advertising which characterized by interactivity has become the mainstream of advertising by
gradually replacing traditional one-way advertising during the new media era. This paper has obeyed the
research outline below, literature review, background description, assumption proposed, and empirical
analysis.
Therefore, this paper proposed the communication model of interactive advertising and drawn two related
important conclusions, interactivity has brought positive effect to advertising communication, different type
of consumers tend to use different interactive options in different ways. Furthermore, this paper also
presented three related optimization strategies to improving the communication of interactive advertising,
namely, 1.changing communication model from one-way to two-way, 2.renovating new communication
process and effect-generated path, 3.renovating new strategy portfolio to improving the communication
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The internet banking services is an innovative financial transaction channel that has assumed a new urgency
and relevance in today’s world of business. The developed countries have embraced these services with little
difficulty while the developing countries are beginning to see the benefits. The objective of this research
hinged on the exploration of the supply and demand of internet banking services in the United Kingdom with
special emphasis on three cities: London, Birmingham and Manchester. The study primarily probed into the
extent to which the internet banking services has been adopted in the three major cities of the UK – London,
Birmingham and Manchester. Secondly, it looked at the factors that are driving this adoption and thirdly, the
reasons for non-usage by some segments of the selected regions. The consumer resistance theory by Ram
and Sheth (1989) was therefore used as a framework of the study. As the focus is to ascertain the reasons for
non-usage, and based on this framework, the following divisions were arrived at based on the non-users: 1)
those that intends to use the services and 2) those that have no intention to use the services. The study data
shows that there are significant differences based on the reluctant/resistance paradigm. The reluctant group
falls into those that want to use but have not wholly made up their minds to do so while the resistance groups
are those that have no intention of using the internet banking system at all. The study in a nutshell, provides
financial managers and the academic community with a tool to engage these non-users through product
designs and promotions.
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SYDNEY BUSINESS SCHOOL - UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG
NSW Taxi Industry
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Understanding consumer behaviour and building a
unique selling proposition
MGNT922 - BUSINESS RESEARCH PROJECT
Name: Phuong Nguyen
Student ID: 5961294
Word count: 3,918
Acknowledgement
The research has been conducted under the guidance of Ms. Zeynep Roberts, Coordinator and Lecturer of MGNT922 Business Research Project at Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong. We thank Ms. Roberts for providing knowledge and expertise that substantially assisted this research.
Moreover, we would also like to acknowledge with gratitude the support of all participants. Their insights were of fundamental importance to the understanding of the research problem, and the study would not have been possible without these individuals.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction 5
II. Literature review 5
III. Research methodology 11
IV. Analysis and Interpretation 13
V. Conclusion 16
References 18
Executive Summary
The study aims to understand the competitive position and differentiation of the point-to-point transport service market, which is achieved through the understanding of consumer behaviour and attitudes towards services in the category. The report is divided into five main sections, namely introduction of the industry and problem under study, extensive literature review, research methodology, analysis and interpretation, and conclusion.
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analysis.
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1. sustainability
Article
A Text Mining Approach for Sustainable Performance
in the Film Industry
Hyunwoo Hwangbo 1 and Jonghyuk Kim 2,*
1 Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University, 50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea;
scotthwangbo@gmail.com or greatemp@yonsei.ac.kr
2 Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Sunmoon University, 70, Sunmoon-ro221beon-gil,
Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do 31460, Korea
* Correspondence: jonghyuk@sunmoon.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-41-530-2266
Received: 8 April 2019; Accepted: 4 June 2019; Published: 9 June 2019
Abstract: Many previous studies have shown that the volume or valence of electronic word of
mouth (eWOM) has a sustainable and significant impact on box office performance. Traditional
studies used quantitative data, such as ratings, to measure eWOM. However, recent studies analyzed
unstructured data, such as comments, through web-based text analysis. Based on recent research
trends, we analyzed not only quantitative data, like ratings, but also text data, like reviews, and we
performed a sentiment analysis using a text mining technique. Studies have also examined the effect
of cultural differences on the decision-making processes of individuals and organizations. We applied
Hofstede’s cultural theory to eWOM and analyzed the moderating effect of cultural differences on
eWOM influence. We selected 338 films released between 2006 and 2015 from the BoxOfficeMojo
database. We collected ratings and reviews, box office revenues, and other basic information from
the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). We also analyzed the effects of cultural differences, such as
power distance, individualism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity, on box office performance.
We found that user comments have a greater impact on film sales than user ratings, and movie stars
and co-production contribute to box office success. We also conclude that cultural and geographical
differences moderate the sentiment elasticity of eWOM.
Keywords: sustainable performance; text mining; sentiment analysis; electronic word-of-mouth;
eWOM; box office; film industry; cultural difference
1. Introduction
Today’s international economic circumstances are undergoing vast changes due to the uncertainty
of the global economy and the growing tendency toward protectionism in each country. In response,
Korea and other governments are making efforts to transform this crisis into opportunities by building
a local economic community and establishing a favored network with other major countries [1].
In this process, it is necessary for companies to understand the cultures of their trading partners,
in addition to the policies of each country, for a smooth entry into foreign markets. On the other
hand, each country is expanding electronic commerce systems, using big data analysis to pioneer
international markets and improve sustainable revenue generation [2]. Therefore, a systematic study
on the behavior of online users is required for companies to successfully utilize information technology
in all international transactions. Over the past several decades, a number of prior studies in various
disciplines, including international economics and the digital marketing environment, have analyzed
the impact of online user behavior or cultural differences on business performance [3]. However, it is
difficult to study the behavior of online users and cultural differences at the same time. The purpose of
this study is to examine the effect of the cultural differences of online users’ characteristics thus as to
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promote sustainable performance. Specifically, we examined the effects of electronic word of mouth
(eWOM) and cultural differences with regard to box office performance, which is a typical form of
cultural output.
The concept of sustainable performance first emerged in the field of business administration, and is
now widely used across all areas of society. From a business perspective, sustainable performance is a
combination of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR) [1]. As the meaning
is derived from various fields, it has come to incorporate both sound environmental and economic
performance as well as social responsibility [3]. We have added to the definition of sustainable
performance in this study. First, sustainable performance is a strategy that both enhances shareholder
value and adds social and environmental value for external stakeholders. Second, it includes efforts by
all stakeholders to improve the quality of life of workers, their families, and the larger communities
in which they live; this leads to sustainable economic development for these communities. Third,
it is a collective action in which the economy, environment, and society are together responsible for
sustainable development.
There are two major streams of research on the relationship between classical WOM and culture.
One focuses on how cultural differences affect user participation in reviews. This stream of research
examines cultural differences as antecedents of WOM senders and insists that cultural differences affect
the extent to which customers search for information. In contrast, another flow is the study of how
cultural differences affect WOM. This stream of research examines cultural differences as antecedents
of WOM receivers. For example, a prior study found that “received WOM has a stronger effect on the
evaluation of customers in high-uncertainty-avoidance than in low-uncertainty-avoidance cultures”
based on the four cultural dimensions of Hofstede and Hofstede [4]. However, no research study
has examined how culture affects the relationship between eWOM and customer preferences in the
online world.
We divided the data analysis into two processes in this study. We verified the previous studies
in Phase 1, and we compared the sentiment analysis with text mining and cultural differences in
Phase 2. Phase 1 focuses on the comparison (a two-by-two comparison with users and critics) of the
effects of reviews and ratings on box office revenue. In Phase 2, the reviews alone were subject to
the same comparison, and the significance of these moderating effects and Hofstede’s cultural grades
were compared for eight countries and two regions based on the nationalities of multiple users and
professional critics who left reviews.
This study proceeded as follows. First, we generated hypotheses based on the previous studies of
eWOM and box office revenue and combined Hofstede’s cultural theory with eWOM research. Then,
we proposed the research methodologies. Lastly, we analyzed the data and discussed the results for
sustainable box office performance. From the results of the study, we identified possible implications
for the film industry.
2. Background and Hypothesis Development
2.1. Prior Studies on Electronic Word of Mouth
The term “word of mouth” has been widely studied in the field of economics since it was first
introduced in Fortune Magazine in 1954. WOM is more effective than other marketing tools, such as
advertising, because of information reliability and faithfulness. WOM is more effective than traditional
marketing tools in acquiring new customers, and WOM is significant when consumers are deciding
whether to purchase unknown products or services [5].
Recent research has been particularly focused on eWOM in online communities. Many studies
have provided an overview of online feedback mechanisms and pointed out that eWOM can be stored
and accessed at the same time; they argue that eWOM has anonymity, without the constraints of time
and space, due to the nature of the Internet [6,7]. Other studies have investigated the self-selection
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effect of online product reviews. In particular, they analyzed online reviews and found that, over time,
user ratings were affected by initial user reviews, and that self-selection effects led to bias [8].
Previous studies on eWOM have primarily targeted specialized sites featuring films, restaurants,
hotels, and software programs, or specific products on online shopping sites. The studies targeting
films can be divided into two categories: Studies on user reviews [9,10] and studies on third-party
reviews (TPRs), such as critics’ reviews [11,12]. eWOM studies on specialized sites have focused on
various products and services, including TV shows [13], restaurants [14], and hotels [15]. These studies
used quantitative indicators such as revenue, sales rank, and stock returns as response variables to
evaluate the effect of eWOM, as well as some quantified qualitative variables such as helpfulness,
based on surveys. For explanatory variables, volume or ratings were commonly used. However,
text mining has been recently adopted to analyze user sentiment [16]. Table 1 shows prior studies on
electronic word of mouth.
Table 1. Prior Studies on Electronic Word of Mouth.
Authors
Response
Variable
Explanatory Variables
Industry (Source) Sample
Ratings Sentiment
Archak, et al. [17] sales rank O O
e-commerce
(Amazon.com)
11,897 reviews for 41 digital
cameras and 6786 reviews for
19 camcorders
Cao, et al. [18] Helpfulness O
Portal (CNET
Download.com)
3460 reviews for 87 software
programs
Chen, Liu, and
Zhang [11]
abnormal stock
returns
O film (Metacritic)
1275 third-party product
reviews (TPR) for movies
produced 7 companies
Chintagunta, et al.
[19]
box office sales O O film (Yahoo! Movies) 148 movies and 3766 reviews
Dellarocas, Gao,
and Narayan [10]
volume of user
review, box
office revenues
O
film (Yahoo! Movies,
BoxOfficeMojo)
63,889 reviews for 104 movies in
2002 and 95,443 reviews for
143 movies
Dellarocas, et al.
[20]
box office
revenues,
volume of user
reviews
O
film (Yahoo! Movies,
BoxOfficeMojo)
critic grade, user grade and user
reviews for 71 movies
Moon, et al. [21]
box office
revenue,
satisfaction
O
Film (Rotten Tomatoes,
Yahoo! Movies)
professional critics’ and
amateurs’ ratings for 246 movies
2.2. User Reviews and Sustainable Box Office Revenue
We analyzed the relationship between the valence of eWOM and box office revenue. Valence
determines whether WOM reviews are positive or negative, and in the case of films, is generally
measured by quantified user ratings. Some earlier studies have argued that the valence of eWOM,
or user ratings, has a positive effect on sustainable box office revenue [22]. On the other hand,
other studies that used simultaneous equation panel data analysis described no significant correlations
between them [23]. To validate the relationship between the valence of eWOM and box office revenue,
we proposed the following hypothesis.
Hypothesis 1a. User Ratings, a Form of eWOM, Have a Positive Impact on Box Office Revenue.
We analyzed the effect of text-based user ratings and reviews, as well as users’ sentimental reaction
to films. It used to be technically impossible to perform sentiment analysis and process users’ opinions,
but advances in unstructured data analysis have facilitated sentiment analysis using text mining.
A prior study analyzed 12,000 film reviews using manual coding and human judgment, and they
described it as “an extremely tedious task” [13]. However, recent years have seen an increase in
studies that analyzed user ratings using text mining [24]. For instance, a prior study combined natural
language-processing techniques and statistical learning methods [25]. They studied the methods to
predict the return on the investment as an indicator of a film’s sustainable performance by analyzing
film scripts.
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Many studies have concluded that reviews of eWOM have a positive effect on box office revenue.
Some asserted that “customers read review text rather than relying simply on summary statistics” [8],
while others claimed that “the textual content of product reviews is an important determinant of
consumers’ choices” [17]. The following hypothesis was generated to analyze users’ positive or
negative reactions based on texts, as well as the effect of such reactions on box office revenue.
Hypothesis 1b. User Reviews, a Form of eWOM, Have a Positive Impact on Box Office Revenue.
2.3. Third-Party Product Reviews and Box Office Revenue
Studies on TPRs in the film industry have largely focused on whether film critics’ ratings influence
or predict box office performance [26]. Some have argued that critics’ reviews are correlated with late
and cumulative box office receipts rather than early box office receipts, and that film critics’ ratings and
reviews are, therefore, predictors rather than influencers [12]. Another study analyzed the relationship
between critics’ reviews and the box office performance of 200 films and concluded that critics’ reviews
are both influencers and predictors of box office revenue. The authors also argued that negative
reviews have a greater impact on box office performance than positive reviews [27]. A prior study
analyzed 80 films, 1040 reviews by critics, and 55,156 user reviews and concluded that reviews by
professional critics improved forecasting accuracy for sustainable film performance. Another prior
study analyzed professional and amateur critics’ ratings for 246 films in six major genre categories and
argued that high film revenues at the beginning of a release increased subsequent film ratings [21].
Moreover, another prior study analyzed 177 films produced from 1995 to 2007 at 21 studios owned by
seven companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. They argued, by analyzing the relationship
between 542 professional critics’ reviews from Metacritic and daily stock returns, that the valence of
TPRs had a significant impact on stock returns [11]. We derived the following hypothesis to test the
conclusions of previous studies that critic ratings affect box office performance.
Hypothesis 2a. Critics’ Ratings, a Form of eWOM, Have a Positive Impact on Box Office Revenue.
As text mining techniques have evolved, research has increasingly explored the impact of critics’
reviews, expressed in text as well as ratings, on the film industry. A study currently analyzed
12,136 WOM reviews by critics and weekly box office performances for 40 films and showed that WOM
information from critics had significant explanatory power for both aggregate and weekly box office
revenue. They explained that this explanatory power was based on the valence of WOM, such as
the percentages of positive and negative reviews, rather than the volume of WOM [13]. However,
few studies have analyzed the positive and negative aspects of critics’ reviews to understand the
predictors or influencers of box office performance. Therefore, we established the following hypothesis
to analyze the impact of sentiments in critics’ reviews on box office performance.
Hypothesis 2b. Critics’ Reviews, a Form of eWOM, Have a Positive Impact on Box Office Revenue.
2.4. Prior Studies on Cultural Elements
One of the traditional research questions for eWOM is “How does eWOM differ cross-culturally?”,
and previous studies have primarily asked this question with regard to how culture affects consumers’
decision-making processes [28,29]. However, little research has been done on how consumers accept
eWOM in a given cultural environment, especially in the film industry. Thus, we needed to examine
the applicability of Hofstede’s cultural dimension theory, which is a widely used cultural theory.
Hofstede analyzed the attitudes and values of 117,000 IBM employees in 40 countries and summarized
the cultural differences between countries in four dimensions: Power distance, individualism versus
collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity versus femininity [30]. He then set up four levels
of value in 76 countries through six inter-country studies from 1990 to 2002 [31]. In later studies,
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he extended the existing four dimensions to six by adding: Long-term orientation and indulgence [32].
Despite many studies applying this to eWOM, we could not find any studies that used Hofstede’s
cultural dimension theory to study the impact of eWOM specifically in the film industry.
A filmgoer reads other users’ reviews to decide whether to watch a film (e.g., whether the film fits
one’s taste or whether it is fun), a process we can interpret as uncertainty avoidance. A filmgoer also
chooses to watch a film based on the views of film critics, who are authorities on the film industry.
We can interpret this process as one of submission to authority and define the degree of submission to
authority as power distance. On the other hand, an audience’s evaluation of a film may be consistent
or varied depending on the culture. We can interpret the diversity of film evaluations as the concept
of collectivism versus individualism. Thus, Hofstede’s cultural dimension can be used as factors of
consumers’ decisions and sustainable performance in the film industry.
We considered the need to examine whether the effect of eWOM differs between regions, and we set
a hypothesis with two geographical regions as moderating variables: Western and Asian. This regional
distinction is based on the marketing theory that Asian consumers rely heavily on others’ opinions
due to their cultural background, while Western consumers make independent purchase decisions [33].
They argued that there is a self-construal difference between Asian and American cultures: American
consumers are independent, whereas Asian consumers are interdependent in their self-construal.
This concept has been widely adopted in many cross-cultural studies to describe the difference in
psychology between Asian and Western consumers [34,35]. Based on Hofstede’s cultural grades,
detailed in Table 2, we derived the following hypotheses, in which geographical regions act as
moderating variables.
Table 2. Hofstede’s Cultural Grades.
Nations Power Distance Individualism Uncertainty Avoidance Masculinity
United States 40 91 46 62
United Kingdom 35 89 35 66
France 68 71 86 43
Germany 35 67 65 66
South Korea 60 18 85 39
Japan 54 46 92 95
China 80 20 30 66
Hong Kong 68 25 29 27
Hypothesis 3a. The valence from user reviews to box office revenue has a stronger effect for Asian users than
Western users.
Hypothesis 3b. The valence from user reviews to box office revenue has an obvious distinction according
to country.
Hypothesis 4a. The valence from critics’ reviews to box office revenue has a stronger effect for Asian critics
than Western critics.
Hypothesis 4b. The valence from critics’ reviews to box office revenue has an obvious distinction according
to country.
3. Methodology
3.1. Research Design
We examined the effect of eWOM, user ratings, and user reviews on box office revenue for
Hypotheses 1 and 2. In this process, we also investigated the effect of movie stars, coproduction
methods, and other controlled variables on box office revenue. In addition, we validated Hypotheses 3
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and 4 to examine whether the regional difference in eWOM, a moderating variable, affected film sales.
The research model is diagrammed in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Research Design.
3.2. Sample Selection
Users can leave eWOM on online marketplaces, for instance, Amazon.com for a wide range of
products such as books and digital cameras, Yahoo! Movie or imdb.com for films, Netflix.com for
videos, and Yelp.com for restaurants. People tend to rely on the opinions of consumers who have had
experience with the goods, especially experience-related products such as films [14]. The types of
cultural content that are exchanged between countries include, but are not limited to, publications,
films, music, broadcasts, advertisements, and games. We chose the film industry to identify the
relationship between eWOM and sustainable revenue for the following reasons. First, the film industry,
unlike other content industries, sells tickets at the same price within a country. This characteristic
allows us to rule out the possibility that price mediates consumers’ purchasing and, thus, enables
us to more clearly understand the relationship between determinants and box office revenue in the
film industry [23]. Second, because box office revenue is open to the public, unlike revenue for other
content products such as books and CDs, it is possible to obtain correct data for the film industry,
and we can thus minimize measurement error. Third, the film industry is characterized as a high-risk,
high-return, one-source, and multi-use sector. While a few films make significant profits, most films
are unprofitable [13]. Therefore, it is important to find the influences and predictors for sustainable
box office success.
To select the sample, we extracted box office results by year for films released between 2006 and
2015 on Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/) and confirmed 338 box office films released
in 93 countries, each with revenue exceeding 200 million US dollars. Our sample was limited to the
top-eight countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan,
China, and Hong Kong), which account for 62.8% of total film sales, or 157 billion US dollars, and their
users’ and critics’ ratings and reviews.
Archived eWOM data were collected from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb, http://imdb.com/),
which includes general film information and users’ and critics’ reviews. Specifically, we collected general
film information from the film’s main page on IMDb, for example, production years, Motion Picture
Association of America (MPAA) ratings, genre, directors, actors, language, release dates, and runtime;
from there we also collected eWOM-related data such as number of users who left ratings, average
user ratings, number of critics who left ratings, and average critics’ ratings. In addition, we collected
revenue by country, weekly rank, budget, and production years from the box office pages. We collected
users’ reviews, ratings, IDs, countries, and review dates from user review pages, and we gathered
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critic information such as media affiliations, names, scores, and reviews from the critic review pages of
IMDb, which are organized by the film. Next, we categorized each film’s box office revenue and user
reviews by the reviewers’ country. Two regional categories were created, Asian and Western, and the
top-eight countries were considered. The box office revenue for the two regions was researched for
each film. The same two regional categories were used for user reviews. Figures 2–4 show the locations
on the IMDb pages from which we collected data related to box office revenue as well as users’ and
critics’ ratings and reviews, respectively.
Figure 2. Data Collection from Box Office Mojo.
Figure 3. Crawling from IMDb (User and Critic Rating).
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−
−
Figure 4. Crawling from IMDb (User and Critic Review).
We crawled data using InfoFinder v2.0 from Wisenut, Inc., and saved the files in XML format.
Then, we converted the files to JSON and csv formats for further analysis and performed taxonomy
configuration and parsing with SAS Enterprise Content Categorization (consisting of Content
Categorization Studio and Information Retrieval Studio). In addition, we implemented the structural
equation model for hypothesis testing and determined moderating effects through SAS eMiner
and AMOS.
3.3. Measurement
The following operational definitions for response variables, explanatory variables, moderating
variables, and control variables were used, as shown in Table 3.
Table 3. Operational Definitions of Variables.
Type Variables Definitions
Response Variables L_RVi,r Natural log of regional box office revenue for the movie i (US dollars)
Explanatory
Variables
URTi,r Average scale of regional user rating for the movie i (10 point scale)
CRTi,r Average scale of professional critics’ rating for the movie i (10 point scale)
UPOSi,r Number of regional users’ positive terms for the movie i
UNEGi,r Number of regional users’ negative terms for the movie i
L_USTi,r Natural log of users’ net sentiment (UPOSi,r − UNEGi,r)
CPOSi,r Number of regional professional critics’ positive terms for the movie i
CNEGi,r Number of regional professional critics’ negative terms for the movie i
L_CSTi,r Natural log of professional critics’ net sentiment (CPOSi,r − CNEGi,r)
Moderating Variables
RGOr1
Dummy variable for the region r1 where a comment was written
(1: For Asian and 0 for Western)
RGOr2
Eight dummy variables for the region r2 where a comment was written
(US, UK, FR, GR, KR, JP, CN, HK)
Control Variables
STRi Dummy variable for whether there are stars in the movie i
COPi Dummy variable for whether the movie i is co-produced
L_SCRi,r
Natural log of the total number of regional screens in opening weekend of the
movie i
GRi
Movie i’s genre using seven dummy variables
(Action, Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller, Kids, Romance)
MPAi
Movie i’s MPAA ratings using five dummy variables
(G, PG, PG13, R, and NR)
We used box office revenue (L_RVi,r) as a response variable, as well as four explanatory variables:
User rating of eWOM (URTi,r), critic rating of eWOM (CRTi,r), and their net eWOM sentiments (L_USTi,r
and L_CSTi,r). The continuous data, including box office revenue and net user sentiment of eWOM,
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were converted into natural logarithms because their values did not represent a normal distribution
with wide variation and large skewness. We set regions as moderating variables. We categorized
93 countries, where hit films (films for which box office revenue exceeded 200 million US dollars for
the 10 years since 2006) were released, into two groups: Asian (RGOr1 = 1), consisting of 32 countries,
and Western (RGOr1 = 0), consisting of 61 countries. These two groups were used as dummy variables.
The moderating effect of the region was also measured for each of the top-eight countries. This study
only adopted data for these eight major countries as the analytic source data for the simultaneous test
of the two moderating effects.
We extracted data for the variables that have been verified as factors of box office revenue in
earlier studies for control variables. Numerous studies have validated whether the appearance of film
stars positively affects box office revenue [13,20,36]. To quantify the effect of the appearance of stars in
films, we used the Delphi technique. We extracted a list of the main actors and actresses in each film
from IMDb and identified cast members who had won Oscar awards for Best Actor or Actress between
1986 and 2015 as stars (STRi).
In addition, we defined an instance of coproduction when either of the following conditions was
met, based on information from IMDb: Foreign capital was invested in a film, or a film was coproduced
with a foreign director or a film’s major cast included a foreign star (COPi). In addition, we added as
control variables film genre (GRi), MPAA rating (MPAi), and the number of screens (L_SCRi,r) [10,13,20].
Film genre and MPAA rating were set as dummy variables, and number of screens was converted into
a natural logarithm. Therefore, we have 2096 types of raw observations, which include 317,720 user
reviews, 114,927,728 user ratings, and 30,420 critics’ reviews and ratings.
4. Data Analysis and Result
4.1. Data Analysis
The basic method we used to test the hypotheses was sentiment analysis through text mining.
We will also quantify each variable and examine the moderating effect of each through structural
equations. As is well known, the structural equation model through regression equations is the
most effective way to test not only the basic hypothesis but also the moderating effect. There is
also a limitation in that this method uses a model that is simplistic. However, there is no doubt
that the structural equation model has already been optimized to compensate for such limitations.
The econometric model, as shown in Formulas (1) and (2), was derived from the research hypotheses.
In Formula (1), i indicates an individual film (i = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 100), and r1 represents the region, which
is either the Asian region (r1 = 1) or the Western region (r1 = 0). In Formula (2), i still indicates an
individual film (i = 1, 2, 3, . . . , 100), but r2 represents “one of the top-eight countries, namely, the United
States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), France (FR), Germany (GR), Korea (KR), Japan (JP), China (CN),
and Hong Kong (HK). It is assumed that the residual value εi,r has a normal distribution.
L_RVi,r1 = b0 + b1URTi,r1 + b2CRTi,r1 + b3L_USTi,r1 + b4L_CSTi,r1 + b5RGOr1
+ b6L_USTi,r1 * RGOr1 + b7L_CSTi,r1 * RGOr1
+ b8STRi + b9COPi + b10L_SCRi,r1 + b11GRi + b12MPAi + εi,r1
(1)
L_RVi,r2 = b0 + b1URTi,r2 + b2CRTi,r2 + b3L_USTi,r2 + b4L_CSTi,r2+ b5RGO r2
+ b6L_USTi,r2* RGOr2 + b7L_CSTi,r2 * RGOr2
+ b8STRi + b9COPi + b10L_SCRi,r2 + b11GRi + b12MPAi + εi,r2
(2)
The descriptive statistics from the sample data are shown in Table 4.
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Table 4. Descriptive Statistics.
Variables N Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
RVi,r 2096 47,041,985 18,745,175 971,175 336,236,265
URTi,r 2096 7.13 2.91 0.62 9.78
CRTi,r 2096 6.42 2.53 1.28 9.11
UPOSi,r 2096 524.22 347.48 9 5975
UNEGi,r 2096 507.47 311.22 4 5987
USTi,r 2096 51.17 29.94 −401 971
CPOSi,r 2096 57.76 24.24 2 275
CNEGi,r 2096 37.54 17.85 0 187
CSTi,r 2096 23.27 17.34 −32 97
SCRi,r 2096 17.92 84.27 6 173
Notes: Total number of user ratings analyzed = 114,927,728; total number of user WOM messages analyzed =
317,720; total number of critics’ ratings analyzed = 15,210; total number of critics’ WOM messages analyzed = 15,210.
4.2. Phase 1: Ratings vs. Reviews
We performed standardized structural estimation using partial least squares regression.
The results, shown in Table 5, verify the results from prior studies, and we used these results in
Phase 1 of our research, which focused on comparing the effects of ratings and reviews on box office
revenue. The comparison was a two-by-two comparison with users and critics. In line with earlier
studies on eWOM [13,20,23], it was found that the eWOM user ratings contributed positively to box
office performance (H1a is supported). On the other hand, our results, unlike those of previous studies,
showed that critics’ ratings do not have a significant effect on international box office revenue (H2a is
rejected). We consider this finding a reflection of the trend in which critics rate a film according to a
comprehensive assessment of its various elements, including cinematic quality and artistry, not just the
film’s popularity. Based on the results for both ratings, we can say that ratings do not have a significant
effect on sustainable box office revenue. We concluded that this finding was due to the endogenous
nature of online reviews. In other words, online reviews no longer have a convincing effect on a
consumer’s purchase decision. However, our user sentiment analysis, based on text mining, revealed
that positive user reviews improved sustainable box office revenue (H1b and H2b are supported),
which indicated that reviews were a more significant index for predicting sustainable box office
revenue compared to ratings. We perceived that our lexicon and coding method for distinguishing
between positive and negative terms (in reviews) largely reflected the rating standard for a film and
its popularity.
Table 5. Standardized Structural Estimates of the Model.
Hypotheses Coefficient t-Value p Result R2
H1a URTi,r to RVi,r 0.345 6.039 ** Accept 0.446
H1b USTi,r to RVi,r 0.402 7.431 ** Accept 0.624
H2a CRTi,r to RVi,r 0.040 0.419 n.s. Reject 0.021
H2b CSTi,r to RVi,r 0.247 4.177 ** Accept 0.374
Model fitness: χ2/df = 1.074 (p 0.001), GFI = 0.858, AGFI = 0.832, TLI = 0.927, CFI = 0.935
** p 0.05, *** p 0.01.
4.3. Phase 2: Comparing the Moderating Effects of Regions and Countries
From the moderating effect of the region (applying r1), as shown in Table 6, we concluded that
box office performance was the same when USTi,r1 was within the Asian region (r1 = 1) and when it
was in the Western region (r1 = 0; H3a is rejected). In contrast, CSTi,r1 had a positive effect on film
revenue in Asian countries but not in Western countries, as indicated by the positive coefficient values
for critic sentiment * region (H4a is supported). Based on the results of hypothesis 3a, we cannot say
that Asian users, including those from China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea, are more affected by
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eWOM than Western users. This finding is due to the fact that users in China and Hong Kong are
less interdependent than other Asian users, in general, are expected to be; thus, are not as affected by
user reviews when making their own decisions. This parallels the index of “uncertainty avoidance”
in Hofstede’s classification. In other words, while the “uncertainty avoidance” of Asian countries
is generally higher than that of Western countries, China and Hong Kong show considerably lower
indicators than other Asian countries as well as Western countries. As a result, we concluded that
the cultural peculiarities of China and Hong Kong have lowered the Asian indexes on average,
offsetting the gap with Western countries. However, the results for the differences between Asian
and Western critics’ reviews (H4a) are significant. The fact that the effect of critics’ reviews is more
significant for Asian users is very much consistent with the index of “power distance” in Hofstede’s
classification, which means that the effect of critics’ reviews could be compared with the tendency to
lean psychologically on a stronger object and, furthermore, with the propensity to conform more to a
hierarchy (power distance).
Table 6. Moderating effect of two regions (applied r1).
Hypotheses Paths
Unstandardized
Coefficients
χ2
Test Results
Asian
Group
Western
Group
Unconstrained
Model
Constrained
Model
∆χ2
H3a (USTi,r1 to RVi,r1) 0.568 0.583 1644.540 1644.523 0.017 Reject
H4a (CSTi,r1 to RVi,r1) 0.848 0.351 1245.470 1207.414 38.056 ** Accept
** p 0.05, *** p 0.01.
We used a three-by-two table to visualize the interaction effect of user and critic reviews and
region (categorical moderator: Asian = 1, Western = 0). Figure 5 describes the relationship between
users’ and critics’ positive and negative reviews and film sales, which indicated the sentiment elasticity
of eWOM. From the critics’ sentiment, we found that Asian reviews had high sentiment elasticity,
whereas Western reviews had low sentiment elasticity.
χ
Δχ
Figure 5. Sentiment elasticity from users’ and critics’ review.
In addition, we conducted a moderating test with eight countries, applying r2 to identify countries’
response order from users’ and critics’ reviews and to compare it with Hofstede’s classification. In this
case, eight moderating dummy variables were considered too many for an unconstrained model test.
Therefore, we performed an ordinary least squares regression estimation using SAS 9.4, and the results
are described in Table 7. The results for Models 1 and 2 revealed the direct effects of eWOM and region
on box office revenue, and the results for Model 3 revealed the interaction effects of eWOM and region
on box office revenue. Our discussion in this section focuses on the results of Model 3. The results
of the moderating test showed that the dummy variable from the moderators was not significant
enough to sustainable film performance except for in the United States, which played the role of a
dummy standard. In addition, the interactions between L_USTi,r2 and r2s (Log value of user sentiment
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× each country), and between L_CSTi,r2 and r2s (Log value of critics’ sentiment × each country) were
all significant (H3b and H4b were supported, respectively).
Table 7. Moderating effects on eight countries (applied r2).
Variable M1 M2 M3 Variable M1 M2 M3
URTi,r2 0.342 ** 0.343 ** 0.345 ** L_CST*H.K. 0.547 **
CRTi,r2 0.006 0.006 0.005 L_CST*KR 0.471 **
L_USTi,r2 0.401 ** 0.403 ** 0.402 ** L_CST*U.K. 0.254 **
L_CSTi,r2 0.243 ** 0.242 ** 0.245 ** L_CST*FR 0.592 **
CNr2 0.022 0.022 L_CST*GR 0.281 **
JPr2 0.065 0.061 L_CST*U.S. 0.243 **
H.K.r2 0.018 0.019 STR 0.042 ** 0.044 ** 0.040 **
KRr2 0.048 0.045 COP 0.058 *** 0.058 *** 0.056 ***
U.K.r2 0.066 0.067 L_SCR 0.046 *** 0.047 *** 0.044 ***
FRr2 0.072 0.074 GR-SF −0.042 −0.045 −0.043
GRr2 0.049 0.051 GR-KD −0.065 −0.065 −0.063
U.S.r2 0.143 * 0.146 * GR-DRM 0.206 0.208 0.204
L_UST*CN 0.199 ** GR-CMD 0.265 0.266 0.266
L_UST*JP 0.543 ** GR-RMC 0.303 0.305 0.302
L_UST*H.K. 0.213 ** GR-AT 0.439 0.439 0.438
L_UST*KR 0.572 ** MPA-PG 0.047 0.048 0.045
L_UST*U.K. 0.311 ** MPA-PG13 −0.623 −0.625 −0.622
L_UST*FR 0.431 ** MPA-R −0.147 −0.149 −0.146
L_UST*GR 0.393 ** MPA-NR −0.028 −0.032 −0.027
L_UST*U.S. 0.276 ** R2 0.628 0.629 0.631
L_CST*CN 0.619 ** F-value 78.29 *** 78.82 *** 79.27 ***
L_CST*JP 0.468 ** - - - -
** p 0.05, *** p 0.01.
From the significant interaction model, we saw that the valence of users’ or critics’ reviews to box
office revenue had an obvious distinction according to country. Moreover, the interaction coefficient
values represented the slope between film sales and the user or critic sentiment; the greater the slope of
the line, the stronger the effect of the interactions. From L_USTi,r2*r2s, we saw that users in Korea and
Japan followed other users’ reviews (higher coefficient value) and had higher uncertainty avoidance
(from Hofstede’s classification). Conversely, users in Hong Kong and China tended not to take direction
from other users and had lower uncertainty avoidance than we expected. The values of the slope
were ordered as follows: Korea and Japan France and Germany the United States and the United
Kingdom China and Hong Kong.
From the interaction results of L_CSTi,r2*r2s, we found that the value of power distance (from
Hofstede’s classification) paralleled our results: China France Hong Kong Korea and Japan the
United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The effect of critic reviews differed from that of user
reviews. China had a lower coefficient for user sentiment but a high coefficient for critic sentiment,
in line with the value and meaning of power distance (from Hofstede’s classification). We have
doubts about the extremely distant coefficient value between user and critic sentiment for China.
This result means that Chinese people do not accept the opinions of other users but absolutely depend
on the official opinions of experts and institutions. We attributed this result to their longstanding
communist culture.
The results of the analysis of control variables and their effects on film sales indicated that films
that are coproduced by or that include stars from other countries have higher film sales. In addition,
consistent with previous research, we found that the total number of screens was a significant
determinant of good performance in film sales, while genre and film ratings were irrelevant to
film sales.
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4.4. Miscellaneous Concerns: Standard Deviation of User Sentiment and Individualism
Another miscellaneous concern that emerged from our analysis was that we identified the concept
of individualism (versus collectivism), a dimension of Hofstede’s cultural classification that we did not
use, as another concept (apart from uncertainty avoidance) that was reflected by users’ and critics’
reviews. In other words, collectivism was perceived as the concept of diversity of film selection,
owing to the dictionary definition of the term, that is, the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology,
or social outlook that influences the group or its interests. In this study, we adopted the concept of
individualism (versus collectivism) for the number of films that were reviewed by country, rather than
for the volume of positive reviews for a film. As shown in Table 8, we found a strong correlation
between the variances of user reviews, that is, the differences in the standard deviation. In the case
of China and Korea, which have low individualism (high collectivism), the range of film selection
(number of films that the user has commented on) was very narrow. However, the United States and
the United Kingdom had a wide range of film selection. In other words, the standard deviation and
value of individualism display similar propensities: The US and the UK France Germany Japan
Hong Kong Korea and China. These results showed that the diversity of film choice (or the number
of films the user had commented on) by country had a similar trend to the value of individualism
(versus collectivism), one of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.
Table 8. Moderating effects of Region Two (Applied r2).
Variable Standard Deviation Value of Individualism vs. Collectivism
L_UST*CN 162.1 20
L_UST*JP 311.7 46
L_UST*H.K. 207.2 25
L_UST*KR 174.7 18
L_UST*U.K. 464.2 89
L_UST*FR 392.6 71
L_UST*GR 353.9 67
L_UST*U.S. 462.5 91
5. Discussion
5.1. Theoretical and Practical Implications
The study’s theoretical contributions to the literature are as follows. To begin with, this is the first
study to analyze the effect of cultural differences on the relationship between eWOM and customer
preferences. Before now, studies on cultural differences had mainly been conducted in terms of
information-seeking behaviors [37]. However, it is also important to look at changes in the social
influence of eWOM according to cultural differences. This issue concerns how people who receive
information evaluate and accept the given information, or eWOM. We also analyzed whether cultural
differences affected the size of the eWOM effect. A few studies have said that the social structure
of digital networks plays a critical role in the spread of a viral message [38], or they have used the
geographical region of eWOM as a control variable [15]. However, only a few studies have analyzed
whether cultural differences change the size of the eWOM effect. In this study, we found that Asian
users were more affected by eWOM than Western users. In other words, cultural and geographical
differences change the sentiment elasticity of eWOM. Second, we examined whether the effect of
eWOM differs between regions, and we set a hypothesis with two geographical regions as moderating
variables: Western and Asian. We found that Asian users were not more affected by eWOM than
Western users. This is because the coefficients of user reviews, as a moderator, for China and Hong Kong
are lower than we expected for the second moderating test for each country, a result that completely
coincides with Hofstede’s classification. In other words, cultural and geographical differences change
the sentiment elasticity of eWOM. Third, we performed sentiment analysis using text mining. Previous
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studies paid more attention to eWOM as a factor of film industry performance. However, they only
used quantitative data, such as numeric user ratings [39]. In contrast, we conducted not only a
quantitative analysis based on user ratings but also a sentiment analysis using user reviews. To this
end, we collected 114,927,728 user ratings and 317,720 eWOM reviews for 338 box office films. Finally,
our research suggests the direction of big data analytics with respect to text mining and sentiment
analysis. Recent studies have suggested a multidimensional approach to integrating big data into
business intelligence [7], and based on this academic trend, we presented a methodology to analyze
both structured and unstructured data.
Our conclusions provide several practical implications for sustainable performance in the film
industry. First, film producers and distributors must put forth a variety of efforts to encourage users to
post positive reviews on the film portals and databases. To this end, they need to actively circulate film
trailers on film portal sites and databases around the world, and they should enhance their analyses of
users’ eWOM to create appropriate marketing strategies. Second, eWOM-based marketing will be
more useful for attracting Asian users, while content-based marketing is recommended for Western
users. In particular, movie marketers need to pay close attention to Chinese consumers, and it is
important to note that for Chinese consumers, the effect of eWOM on critics is more influential than
the effect of eWOM on general users. On the other hand, marketers need to develop strategies to
promote the artistry and content of films, such as through awards, for Western consumers. Aggressive
promotion in international film festivals and film markets is highly recommended. Third, the selection
of actors or actresses should be carefully planned in the preproduction stages. In particular, films for
export to Asian countries must cast stars who are preferred in those target markets. A noticeable
example that proves the importance of this strategy is the success of Hollywood superhero movies
based on Marvel comics, which have sold at high rates and led the sustainable revenue increases.
Fourth, coproduction between nations needs to increase for ease of funding and technology exchange.
Furthermore, the results of this study exhibit how coproduction is a good strategy for ensuring that
films will be exempt from non-tariff barriers and the quota system. This is also shown in the success
stories of co-produced movies such as “Late Autumn” (2010) (66.20 million yuan), which caste the
Chinese actress Tang Wei as the main actress and “A Wedding Invitation” (2013) (190.11 million yuan),
a Korean and Chinese joint-venture.
5.2. Limitations and Future Research
First, a critical limitation of this study is in the data collection process. We collected data for the
top-100 box office films released since 2005. However, it is necessary to collect data on more films
and more user reviews to test more diverse and complex questions. It is also necessary to ensure the
accuracy of a database and to collect data from various film websites. Second, although sentiment
analysis using text mining was carried out, only a text analysis of positive and negative criteria was
conducted. In the future, we need to conduct a more effective text analysis by including other factors
such as a film’s quality and audiences’ level of enjoyment. Third, our analysis centered on eWOM,
among the various factors of the sustainable performance of the film industry, and we excluded factors
related to marketing costs, such as advertising costs, which need to be considered as a major explanatory
variable [11]. Fourth, our analysis did not reflect sustainable performance changes during a film’s
running period in foreign markets, which is important given that the running period is relatively short;
however, changes during this period can be an important factor when researching marketing timing.
Finally, our research is limited to a comparative study with only eight main countries. Thus, in future
research, we should survey and discuss more countries that have varying business environments
and cultures.
Author Contributions: Conceptualization, H.H.; Data curation, J.K.; Formal analysis, H.H.; Investigation, J.K.;
Methodology, H.H.; Project administration, H.H.; Resources, J.K.; Software, J.K.; Supervision, H.H.; Validation,
J.K.; Visualization, J.K.; Writing—original draft, H.H.; Writing—review editing, J.K.
Funding: This research received no external funding.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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