Since information products have unique cost structure and characteristics, namely, high fixed cost and low variable cost, the traditional pricing strategy based on marginal cost theory can not be applied by the producers. This paper indicates a new principle of pricing--customer value (CV) principle. Based on the principle, the producers can execute a number of different pricing strategies to m...

The paper aims at assessing how can location based mobile support systems support salespersons ́CRM efforts when they are operating within a highly mobile work environment. The paper is structured as follows. In the first section the paper conceptualises key properties of location based mobile support systems. It then introduces the dual role of salespeople in CRM through a brief literature rev...

Real-time technology has the capability of symbolising both customers and call center representatives (and the moment of interaction), purely by/as numbers, or forms. The pinnacle of this data processing is customer relationship management (CRM), where the digitised data is assembled so as to reproduce a mimetic model of the customer. This could be seen as a metamyth (Adams & Ingersoll, 1990) t...

When a firm implements analytical CRM, the value of a customer is assessed by profitability analysis. In a sense, a firm retains profitable customers but “fires” unprofitable ones. In this paper, we show that this typical customer selection strategy is not appropriate for a firm of goods and services that exhibit network externalities because of the strategic network value of unprofitable custo...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Customer relationship management IT alignment CRM strategy IT infrastructure Customer relationship management (CRM) is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. A CRM strategy involves the entire enterprise and is employed on an ongoing basis. Despite the fact that CRM...

Employee relationship management (ERM) constitutes an emerging trend of managing human resources by building and maintaining individualized and mutually valuable relationships with employees based on information technology. However, given the early and still emerging state, there is little knowledge and agreement regarding ERM. Hence, the current paper attempts to clarify the concept and derive...

Customer Relationship Management has been well discussed as a holis tic concept for the private sector to start, main tain and optimize relationships to make customers more loyal /profitable – in sum to improve the relationship with the consumers. Many companies have invested into the customer driven CRM concept but research indicates varying outcomes. Recent publ ications, mainly driven by the...

Organizations today have a diversity of applications available to support the management of customer relationships, namely electronic-customer relationship management (eCRM) applications. Despite the growing need of understanding eCRM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), eCRM research is largely focused on large organizations. Building on the theory of dynamic capabilities, this paper ...