This piece in the Milestones series is dedicated to paper coauthored by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley published 1962 under title “College admissions stability of marriage” on American Mathematical Monthly.

This paper presents a study of how the business models of organizations are getting transformed in the Marketspace created by the Internet and WWW. We use a model comprising the four P’s Product, Price, Promotion and Placement and one C Customer Relationship. We study how these four P’s and one C are being transformed by the fundamental characteristics of real-time interactivity and global conn...

Corporate information technology (IT) investments in customer support and service such as CRM systems have been on a steady rise. Of late, the primary interest has shifted toward assessment of returns on these investments. This research attempts to assess the value of IT investments in a customer support setting using a process-level analysis. Given the lack of academic IS research in the area ...

This research evaluates the effect of customer relationship management (CRM) on customer knowledge and customer satisfaction. An analysis of archival data for a cross-section of U.S. firms shows that the use of CRM applications is positively associated with improved customer knowledge and improved customer satisfaction. This article also shows that gains in customer knowledge are enhanced when ...