This paper presents a longitudinal case study of a multi-national company’s Customer Relationship Management implementation in China, Poland, Russia, Middle East, Dubai, Pakistan, Iran, Korea and Japan. Although the cooperation has extensive experience in implementing systems in its different global subsidiaries, and has planned the implementation well, the implementation was not a complete suc...

Relationship analysis aims at supporting the eliciting and documenting of potential relationship structures of an application domain by providing analysts with a systematic technique. Current relationship analysis methodologies, however, are mainly semantic based and do not take the pragmatic and social dimensions of relationships into account. We propose an approach that is guided by Habermas’...

During the past decade, there have been a variety of significant developments in data mining techniques. Some of these developments are implemented in customized service to develop customer relationship. Customized service is actually crucial in retail markets. Marketing managers can develop long-term and pleasant relationships with customers if they can detect and predict changes in customer b...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First it outlines the basic methodology for improving the design and manufacture of information products through the development, implementation, and monitoring of an information product quality strategy. Secondly, it shows how existing marketing techniques can be used to construct an information product quality strategy through the application of customer ...

The market enthusiasm generated around investment in CRM technology is in stark contrast to the naysaying by many academic and business commentators. This raises an important research question concerning the extent to which companies should continue to invest in building a CRM capability. Drawing on field interviews and a survey of senior executives, the results reveal that a superior CRM capab...

We aim to understand how the customer relationship portfolio of a subcontractor changes as the subcontractor evolves its capabilities. While this line of research is under-investigated in the literature on business relationships, we believe that it is a crucial aspect to gaining new insights about how competitive advantages are developed in industrial markets. To address this research question ...

The present study explores the relationship between the e-business maturity and the perceived benefits from (Information and Communication Technologies) ICT at the firm level. We aim to debunk this relationship in terms of its strength and stability, and to explore the conditions which may influence it. Taking an economic approach, we hypothesise that the relation between e-business maturity an...

deployment, coordination, and evaluation of channels through which firms and customers interact, with the goal of enhancing customer value through effective customer acquisition, retention, and development. The authors identify five major challenges practitioners must address to manage the multichannel environment more effectively: (a) data integration, (b) understanding consumer behavior, (c) ...

It is a common problem for companies to sustain high levels of customer satisfaction in social media where customer opinions and attitudes propagate through a large population quickly. The value of customer participation has been emphasized in order to improve the information exchanging between customers and companies. Value co-creation is one of the most important ways to achieve that goal; an...

Supply chain integration nowadays is considered an important approach to building and sustaining competitive advantages. Many previous empirical researches have investigated trust and power between suppliers and customers, yet, the effects of trust and coercive power on supply chain integration are still largely unknown. This study investigates trust, coercive power and their interaction and th...