Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one important application for e-business. Two important factors influencing CRM performance are: customer profiles and customer participation. The result of this experimental study demonstrates that the use of customer profiles improves the customers’ perception of the quality of goods and increases the effectiveness of Customer Relationship Management ...

CRM information systems are valuable tools for enterprises. But CRM implementation projects are risky and present a high failure rate. In this paper we regard CRM implementation projects as services that could be greatly improved by addressing them in a methodological way that can be designed with the help of tools such as SysML. Here we introduce and comment on our first experience on the use ...

There are several motivations for CRM systems adoption, some of them aligned with the results of CRM implementation. This paper presents the main findings of a study undertaken among a sample of Portuguese large enterprises, identifying and discussing the main motivations and results of the adoption of CRM systems. It was possible to conclude that the main results of CRM adoption reflect the ma...

The literature on technology acceptance and emotions is reviewed in a bid to investigate the human aspects of CRM systems evaluation. Specifically it is argued that taking into account more intricate human dimensions in system evaluation might lead to a more comprehensive realisation of benefits for an organisation. A research agenda is scoped and presented alongside a conceptual, behaviours ba...

This paper explains one of the most useful regulations in relation with managers and customers known as “CRM” . ”CRM“ is an acronym which is comprised of three main words , “CUSTOMER” , “RELATOINSHIP” & “MANAGEMENT” .”CRM“ includes all aspects of the exchange with customers and make whole elements within an organization relevant which are in relationship with customers .one of the most importan...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) adoption is both a relevant research topic in academia and a challenge for practitioners. We understand CRM as a complex concept that includes technology, strategy and philosophy. In this research, we propose an analysis of CRM organisational dynamic capabilities. The main goal is to apply a dynamic capabilities perspective to analyse how companies can imp...

This research-in-progress paper uses a socio-technical perspective to analyse how organisational changes unfold in the post-adoption stage of a CRM implementation in an organisation. The qualitative interpretive case study was conducted at an innovative office automation solutions organisation in Bangkok, Thailand. The research findings reveal that the organisation’s sociotechnical system has b...

Creatine monohydrate (CrM) supplementation has been shown to increase fat-free mass and muscle power output possibly via cell swelling. Little is known about the cellular response to CrM. We investigated the effect of short-term CrM supplementation on global and targeted mRNA expression and protein content in human skeletal muscle. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover, double-blind de...

Employing the literature on IT governance and the structuration theory of technology assimilation, this research develops a conceptual model to examine decision execution mechanisms of IT governance in post-adoption stages of CRM diffusion, i.e. CRM use, impacts on business processes, and impacts on firm performance. While the literature mainly addresses the forms and contingencies of IT govern...

The customer relationship management (CRM) system has been touted as a primary tool for supporting frontline employees’ personalized services tasks. However, while a number of studies focus on the critical role of CRM systems in organizational performance, the link between CRM systems and individual performance is still under-investigation. In order to fill this research gap, this study focuses...