It is evident that there is a strong competition among organizations and a sort of rapid change in the business environment is taking place. Therefore; organizations start thinking of how to improve their processes to stay competent. Knowledge has become a strategic resource and a basis of competitive advantage in the organization. However, many organizations lost sight of managing Knowledge to...

Customer involvement in product and service development (CIPS) is recognized as important for firms; yet the role of Information Technology (IT) in facilitating CIPS is understudied. We examine two enterprise technologies which improve knowledge available to decision makers: Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). While CRM provides transactional information and k...

In recent years, companies have integrated their customer relationship management (CRM) and knowledge management (KM) efforts because they realize that KM plays a key role in CRM success. Both knowledge management (KM) and customer relationship management emphasize the allocation of resources to business supportive activities to gain competitive advantages. The aim of this study is to inves...

This paper aimed at examining the role of various interactive technologies in aiding Electronic Customer Knowledge Management Systems (E-CKMS). The development of E-CKMS encounters several challenges including trust and knowledge hoarding, and comparative studies that evaluate the potential of interactive technologies are lacking. Therefore, an investigation was carried out to uncover this pote...

This chapter is intended to give an overview of knowledge management (KM), and to explore its extension to the marketing discipline. It is basically aimed to set the stage for the conceptualisation of knowledgebased complaint management rather than to provide a thorough and exhaustive literature review of the KM theory per se. Therefore the contribution of the chapter in hand lies in the fact t...

Customer knowledge is highly valued in today’s business environment where supply is more than demand and firms are trying their best to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Building customer knowledge base through knowledge management provides firms with strategic weapon for customer value creation, average level of customer knowledge enhancement, cost and time reduction, service qu...

This study examines how three dimensions of electronic knowledge repositories (EKRs), namely customer knowledge level, customer knowledge integration and accessibility of customer knowledge, contribute to increasing customer service representatives (CSRs)’ service expertise and their customer knowledge utilization and acquisition. Furthermore, the study empirically tests the proposition that se...

Due to the proliferation of information systems and technology, businesses increasingly have the capability to accumulate huge amounts of customer data in large databases. However, much of the useful marketing insights into customer characteristics and their purchase patterns are largely hidden and untapped. Current emphasis on customer relationship management makes the marketing function an id...

Customer relationship management (CRM) has become one of the most influential technologies in the world, and companies are increasingly implementing it to create value. However, despite significant investment in CRM technology infrastructure, empirical research offers inconsistent support for its positive impact on performance. This study develops and tests a research model analyzing the proces...