Online customer relationship management (e-CRM) has gained tremendous popularity in the business world recently. This paper presents a framework for classifying entities in the healthcare field. It also describes planned work related to the investigation of critical success factors for some of the entity types.

For many large scale companies, especially those operating in future deregulation markets, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is becoming an increasingly important business success factor. After a short introduction to issues in Customer Relationship Management, this paper highlights facets and experiences from a CRM project, describes our view of the role of Data Warehousing for CRM purpos...

T paper shows that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm value are positively related for firms with high customer awareness, as proxied by advertising expenditures. For firms with low customer awareness, the relation is either negative or insignificant. In addition, we find that the effect of awareness on the CSR–value relation is reversed for firms with a poor prior reputation as cor...

It is becoming increasingly apparent from the literature that marketers need to consider customer-level information when they generate a marketing strategy for the firm. In this article, the authors develop a customerfocused framework that uses a marketing strategy with an overall objective of maximized financial performance. This strategy is driven by seven customer-level marketing tactics and...

This paper presents a project management model for customer relationship management projects for the financial service industry. Key findings from a survey of both financial institutes and software vendors are then presented. It is suggested that a good communication management can increase the success rate of CRM projects. The other important areas are scope management, quality management, tim...

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

The literature suggests that ethical climate may actually contribute to organizational success by enhancing employee performance. Ethical climate is considered to be highly relevant to the hospitality industry, since it enhances service-providers’ contact with customers. This study reinforces previous researches by exploring the relationships between ethical climate, service, and customer satis...

Services that are delivered over the Internet—e-services— pose unique problems yet offer unprecedented opportunities. In this paper, we classify e-services along the dimensions of their level of digitization and the nature of their target markets (business-to-business, business-toconsumer, consumer-to-consumer). Using the case of application services, we analyze how they differ from traditional...

Prepaid customers in mobile telecommunications are not bound by a contract and can therefore change operators (‘churn’) at their convenience and without notification. This makes the task of predicting churn both challenging and financially rewarding. This paper presents an explorative, real world study of prepaid churn modeling by varying on three dimensions: data, outcome definition and popula...

Numerous health websites are developing rapidly in China and the competition is fierce between these websites. In order to win the competition, the websites operators need to satisfy their customers to attain more market shares. But few attention has been paid to factors affecting customer satisfaction and loyalty on these websites. As a result, the paper aims to empirically explore the factors...