What attracts vehicle consumers' buying: A Saaty scale-based VIKOR (SSC-VIKOR) approach from after-sales textual perspective?. Issue 1 (20th November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhou, Fuli; Lim, Ming K.; He, Yandong; Pratap, Saurabh
• Is Part Of: Industrial management & data systems. Volume 120:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 78
• Publication Date: 2019-11-20
• Subjects: Sentiment classification -- Intelligent recommendation -- Parallel Naïve Bayes method -- Sentiment value -- Saaty scale-based VIKOR (SSC-VIKOR); Industrial management -- Periodicals; Electronic data processing -- Periodicals; Business -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 658.05
• DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-01-2019-0034
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0263-5577

Abstract

Abstract : Purpose: The increasingly booming e-commerce development has stimulated vehicle consumers to express individual reviews through online forum. The purpose of this paper is to probe into the vehicle consumer consumption behavior and make recommendations for potential consumers from textual comments viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach: A big data analytic-based approach is designed to discover vehicle consumer consumption behavior from online perspective. To reduce subjectivity of expert-based approaches, a parallel Naïve Bayes approach is designed to analyze the sentiment analysis, and the Saaty scale-based (SSC) scoring rule is employed to obtain specific sentimental value of attribute class, contributing to the multi-grade sentiment classification. To achieve the intelligent recommendation for potential vehicle customers, a novel SSC-VIKOR approach is developed to prioritize vehicle brand candidates from a big data analytical viewpoint. Findings: The big data analytics argue that "cost-effectiveness" characteristic is the most important factor that vehicle consumers care, and the data mining results enable automakers to better understand consumer consumption behavior. Research limitations/implications: The case study illustrates the effectiveness of the integrated method, contributing to much more precise operations management on marketing strategy, quality improvement and intelligent recommendation. Originality/value: Researches of consumer consumption behavior are usually based on survey-based methods, and mostly previous studies about comments analysis focus on binary analysis. The hybrid SSC-VIKOR approach is developed to fill the gap from the big data perspective.