For more than ten years there has been an obvious trend of globalization of leading companies, as they have moved from multinational to global operations. Recently there has also been increased demand for combining locally-customized services to the economies of the scale of worldwide...

1. The life event cycle / Florian Siems, Dominik Walcher -- 2. Optimizing consumer responses to mass customization / Ruth Mugge, Jan Schoormans -- 3. Resource implications of manufacturer-customer interactions in mass customization / Emmanuel Kodzi Jr., Rado Gazo -- 4. A multi-agent system for...

"This book describes original, innovative works on IT systems for mass customization, and provides a multitude of solutions, tools, concepts and successful realizations of IT systems for mass customization. It discusses state-of-the-art mass customization while depicting the importance of IT in...

"This book presents various opinions, judgments, and ideas on how the use of digitally created worlds is changing the face of e-commerce and extending the use of Internet technologies to create a more immersive experience for customers"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides an overview of the field of the Semantic Web, social Web and CRM by uniting various research studies from different subfields, exploring the opportunities and challenges confronting organizations using Web 2.0 and 3.0"--Provided by publisher.

1. Applying fuzzy logic and fuzzy methods to marketing / Laurent Donzé and Andreas Meier -- 2. Fuzzy soft social network modeling and marketing / Ronald R. Yager and Rachel L. Yager -- 3. Fuzzy dynamic groups: measures and implications for television audiences / José-Domingo Mora -- 4. Using...

1. Effective implementation of sales-based CRM systems: theoretical and practical issues / George J. Avlonitis and Nikolaos G. Panagopoulos -- 2. The goals of customer relationship management / Ronald E. Goldsmith -- 3. Global account management (GAM): creating companywide and worldwide...

1. E-service customization: the provider perspective -- 2. E-service customization: the consumer perspective -- 3. Technologies for e-service customization -- 4. E-service composition -- 5. Service customization strategies -- 6. Business processes design for service customization -- 7. Case...

"This book provides a conceptual understanding on customer-centric marketing strategies as well as revealing the success factors of these concepts with a goal to improve the organization's financial and marketing performance"--Provided by publisher.