This paper presents a certified confidence model which aims to ensure credibility for information exchanged among agents which inhabit an open environment. Generally speaking, the proposed environment shows a supplier agent b which delivers service for a customer agent a. The agent a returns to b a cryptographed evaluation r on the service delivered. The agent b will employ R as testimonial whe...

electronic government is a new concept that governments according to level of development implement in different ways. utilizing informational systems in business sections has created potential context for developing electronic government. customer relationship ‎management (crm) is an important system in management that helps to develop electronic government and promote citizenship-based in org...

Partner phubbing (Pphubbing) can be best understood as the extent to which an individual uses or is distracted by his/her cell phone while in the company of his/her relationship partner. The present study is the first to investigate the oft-occurring behavior of Pphubbing and its impact on relationship satisfaction and personal well-being. In Study 1, a nine-item scale was developed to measure ...

The more a marketing paradigm evolves, the more long-term relationship with customers gains its importance. CRM, a recent marketing paradigm, pursues long-term relationship with profitable customers. It can be a starting point of relationship management to understand and measure the true value of customers since marketing management as a whole is to be deployed toward the targeted customers and...

Many software products are produced as a commission from one company to another. Much of the software used by the United States government is commissioned from and maintained by commercial companies. Often the contracts that define the commission call for reviews to be held in which both the producers and consumers of the software products participate. In this issue of Strategic Software Engine...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a combination of people, processes and technology that seeks to understand a company’s customers. It is an integrated approach to managing relationships by focusing on customer retention and relationship development. CRM has evolved from advances in information technology and organizational changes in customer-centric processes. Companies that successfu...

Using a dual lens of Stakeholder Theory (ST) and Relationship Marketing (RM), this exploratory case study considers the perceptions and attitudes of each stakeholder regarding the initial design, development, and subsequent testing of an electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) tool. Through the use of in-depth interviews, member-checking interviews, and data from actual customer tran...

Success in implementing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system requires close attention to data quality issues. However, most of the literature focuses on the quality of the input streams rather than the quality of the customer data integration (CDI) and customer recognition outcomes. This paper describes some preliminary research into the creation and validation of quality metrics for...

Since online customer review has significant impacts on customer's purchase decision and product sales, it has been regarded as a new marketing tool nowadays. Moreover, some online transactional platforms and sellers are trying to encourage customers to provide reviews of high-quality by offering a reward. With the empirical analysis of 1044 samples from a famous C2C e-platform website, results...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a business philosophy that has emerged and gained prominence in the field of IS in recent years. Organisations have begun to realise that creating a dynamic substantial relationship with each customer may lead to sustained business success. While numerous firms have bought into the CRM concept many organisations are now trying to evaluate whether their ...