Soziale Medien bieten Unternehmen eine Vielzahl an Möglichkeiten, mit Kunden zu interagieren. Soziale Interaktionen werden dabei als Haupttreiber für den Marketing- und Unternehmenserfolg betrachtet. Nur wenige Unternehmen schaffen es jedoch, deren Potential auch tatsächlich auszuschöpfen,...

This pitch research letter (PRL) applies the pitch template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on customer loyalty and customer participation in the service recovery process in the hotel industry of Pakistan. The pitch template helped the pitchers to identify the core elements that...

Data Management and Data Analytics are of huge importance to Business Process Outsourcing Providers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in order to offer tailor-made CRM Solutions to their business clients during presales, sales and aftersales. These solutions support business clients to...

This paper intended to investigate a conceptual clarity model of integrating customer crowdsourcing, as well as the antecedents of customer participating in online crowdsourcing communities for best social CRM performance. The paper also explores four major potential factors associated with...

Die Video-Plattform Youtube ist eine der meistbesuchten Webseiten weltweit. Youtube-Stars erreichen mit ihren Videos große Zuschauergruppen und können als Multiplikatoren für Wer-bebotschaften dienen. Sie sind oftmals Meinungsführer, denen hohes Vertrauen entgegen-gebracht wird, weshalb sie...

This study examines the effect of company-cause congruency on consumer responses to Cause Related Marketing (CRM) programs of stigmatized products. This study also investigates the moderating role of user status and tests a theoretical model of the effects of attitude toward the industry on...

Loyalty programs are a widespread marketing tool whose contribution to a company's economic success is still being questioned. From a marketing relationship perspective, they cannot be terminated easily and their elimination has to be reasoned. This qualitative study examines why companies end...

We compare the strategic potential of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Customer Orientation (CO) as commitments to larger quantities in Cournot competition, modeled as a multi-stage game. First, in addition to profits, firms can choose to care for the surplus of either all consumers...

Being successful in global markets is a challenging task. Individual customer requirements induce a change from a seller-oriented towards a customer- oriented market. Further, technical advances lead to an adaption of production and logistic processes in individual companies and global networks....

Banken und Vermögensverwalter stehen seit dem Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 unter grossem Druck. Nicht nur büssten Organisationen in der Finanzindustrie ein hohes Mass an Kundenvertrauen ein, sondern beklagen sich aufgrund von verschärften regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen über...

Die Dissertation untersucht und evaluiert die Auswirkung von der Social CRM Technologienutzung auf die Social CRM Leistung aus einer Unternehmensperspektive. Das Thema ist für die Forschung und Praxis von hoher Relevanz: Zum einen kämpfen Unternehmen noch immer damit, die Vorteile ihrer...

Die vorliegende Dissertation hat den Einsatz von CRM im Vertrieb der Schweizer Assekuranz zum Inhalt. Mittels drei Teiluntersuchungen wurde anhand des Falles "AXA Winterthur" die CRM-Akzeptanz, der CRM-Einsatz sowie der Einfluss von CRM auf die Performance von Aussendienstmitarbeitern...

Aufgrund sinkender Auflagen, Reichweiten und Umsätze wird seit Jahren über die Marginalisierung von Zeitungen diskutiert. Auch wenn die Leserzahlen für digitale Angebote kontinuierlich steigen, so steht doch das Management der Zeitungsverlage vor der Aufgabe, die Leser-Blatt-Bindung zu...

In recent years, social media have become a popular channel through which customers and companies can interact. However, companies struggle to assess whether their investments in establishing and maintaining brand pages in social media actually meet their high expectations with respect to...

Many companies try to adopt a service-oriented perspective when developing new offerings by posing the question of how the creation of value jointly with customers can be improved. This requires a holistic view of customers beyond retrospective methods such as surveys. Observations of everyday...

This paper develops a model for measuring the effects of sales promotion on purchase event feedback. The model directly assesses the extent to which promotion purchases contribute differently than non-promotion purchases to the dynamic component of Guadagni and Little's (1983) "brand loyalty"...

"This book explores how emotional branding is a unique branding strategy that touches consumer lives by influencing their thoughts and feelings to the extent that the brand gets positioned into the core of consumers' lives. It provides insights on how firms can benefit by adopting the same in...

"Whether you're in the trenches or the boardroom, you're going to encounter demanding, dissatisfied, and disagreeable customers. Are your people (and you) prepared to deal with them? Ignore a valid complaint and you could be the next viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. But give in to...