The advent of electronic commerce has induced many organizafions to develop a Web presence and exploit the opportunities offered by the Intemet. In an environment that commodifizes products and allows for easy imitative bebavior through instant access to information on competitor's offerings, it is not clear how to build a sustainable competitive advantage. This study endeavors to facilitate an...

Delivering quality customer service has emerged as a strategic imperative, one that is increasingly tied to a firm's information technology resources and capabilities. This paper presents an empirical study that examines the extent to which IT impacts customer service. More specifically, this study investigates the differential effects of various IT resources and capabilities on the performance...

Literature has stressed the importance of customer retention (loyalty) as it is considered to be a vital source in attaining not only competitive advantage but also improved business performance. A number of studies on online shopping behavior have indirectly related customer satisfaction to repurchase intention. But very few studies have explicitly studied the relationship between customer sat...

Customers are becoming more powerful, and customer knowledge can empower organizations and improve their performance. Customer knowledge has been classified in three categories: knowledge FOR customers, knowledge ABOUT customers and knowledge FROM customers. The value of knowledge management has been recognized by organizations. However, the value of external customer knowledge has not fully be...

T need to understand the relationships among customer metrics and profitability has never been more critical. These relationships are pivotal to tracking and justifying firms’ marketing expenditures, which have come under increasing pressure. The objective of this paper is to integrate existing knowledge and research about the impact of customer metrics on firms’ financial performance. We inves...