The purpose of this research is to understand the way a CRM project implementation may contribute to the success of the project. The approach of Knowledge Management Strategic Alignment was used as a theoretical framework and a case study was realised for this end. The case study allowed exploring the role of customer knowledge competencies of the company in the CRM project implementation. Thre...

research on ambidexterity is burgeoning, yet understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities remains rather unclear. the purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of knowledge sharing on organizational ambidexterity (exploration and exploitation) as well as the mediating effect of mediating role of absorptive capacity. the research statistical population constitutes 9...

Modern business organizations have appreciated the significance of having competitive advantage through the delivery of continuous improvement towards the customers, and being knowledge-oriented. Indisputably, Knowledge Management (KM) plays a key role in the success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). In this regard, Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) is a newly developed concept that ...

price fairness and price satisfaction is one the most important fields in pricing and also in customer satisfaction. in this research, first the dimensions of price fairness, price satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty are extracted from marketing literature, then five hypotheses are developed. in proposed model, price fairness has direct impact on price satisfaction, custom...

in the present study, the survey research strategy was used to investigate the effect of factors influencing the success of customer relationship management (crm) considering mediating effects of organizational factors. the population consisted of managers and employees in the sports services sector of six metropolitan hotels of iran and 67 hotels were selected as the study sample. the data wer...

This paper proposes an approach for evaluating the relationship with a customer, leading to the creation of a Customer Intimacy Grade (CIG), across multiple levels of granularity: employee, team, business unit and whole organization. Our approach focuses on B2B service organizations which provide their customers with complex solutions and whose relationship with the customer is distributed amon...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of customer relationship management (CRM) benefits for customers in relation to customer satisfaction. A model has been developed and empirically tested through survey data collected from 150 customers of three Malaysian companies. The results indicate that the benefits of CRM for customers have had a significant positive effect on their ...

The ability to capture customer needs and to tailor the provided solutions accordingly, also defined as customer intimacy, has become a significant success factor in the B2B space in particular for increasingly "servitizing" businesses. Providers aim at achieving competitive advantages, such as cross-selling and customization by leveraging customer relationships and customer knowledge. However,...