T paper shows that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm value are positively related for firms with high customer awareness, as proxied by advertising expenditures. For firms with low customer awareness, the relation is either negative or insignificant. In addition, we find that the effect of awareness on the CSR–value relation is reversed for firms with a poor prior reputation as cor...

It is becoming increasingly apparent from the literature that marketers need to consider customer-level information when they generate a marketing strategy for the firm. In this article, the authors develop a customerfocused framework that uses a marketing strategy with an overall objective of maximized financial performance. This strategy is driven by seven customer-level marketing tactics and...

This paper presents a project management model for customer relationship management projects for the financial service industry. Key findings from a survey of both financial institutes and software vendors are then presented. It is suggested that a good communication management can increase the success rate of CRM projects. The other important areas are scope management, quality management, tim...

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

The literature suggests that ethical climate may actually contribute to organizational success by enhancing employee performance. Ethical climate is considered to be highly relevant to the hospitality industry, since it enhances service-providers’ contact with customers. This study reinforces previous researches by exploring the relationships between ethical climate, service, and customer satis...

Purpose – Processes in customer relationship management (CRM) are classified as knowledge-intensive processes. This paper seeks to provide a framework for knowledge management (KM) support of CRM processes and to show how this framework was applied in three action research cases. Design/methodology/approach – In a long-term cooperation with several leading companies the authors developed a fram...

Customer relationship management (CRM) and knowledge management (KM) have become key strategic tool for all companies, especially in the current competitive environment. Moreover, customer knowledge is an important issue for CRM implementation. Reviewing the literature, we found many studies that analyze the crucial role played by KM initiatives as determinants of the success of CRM. Moreover, ...

The salesforce management data in Thomson Reuters is often having multiple hierarchies and dependencies. However, the conventional business graphics are not sufficient for presenting and exploring such data sets. The Treemap is proved to be effective for depicting hierarchical data, although it lacks the structural clarity such that distinguishing the different levels within the treemap is diff...

Customer Journey Maps (CJMs) summarize the behavior of customers by displaying the most common sequences of steps they take when engaging with a company or product. In many practical applications, the challenge lies in automatically discovering these prototypical sequences from raw event logs for thousands of customers. We propose a novel, probabilistic approach based on a mixture of Markov mod...

In the Multi-platform access Two-sided Networks,most customers use several platforms to shop. Customer satisfaction with different platform services lead to different dependence of customer to platform. In order to study the factors influencing the m-customer satisfaction, the study builds the evaluation model of m-customer satisfaction based on the HMM method. Customer satisfaction of mobile t...