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 ...

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...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and knowledge management, have some important issues, in particular, related to lack of success of CRM strategies implementation. Much CRM writing focuses on technology applications, but the critical role of knowledge management is now beginning to be recognized. CRM is definitely related to the discipline of knowledge management thus, the existence of suf...

Organizations have increasingly recognized the importance of managing customer relationships, and Knowledge Management (KM) from the perspective of a process approaches assure positive impact on customer retention. Many organizations are turning to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to better serve customers and facilitate closer relationships. This paper investigates how Knowledge Process ...

Service failure and recovery is a well-established area of services research. Research has shown that service recovery is critically important from a managerial perspective in terms of maintaining customer relationships. Yet few firms excel at handling service failures. There is a growing number of managers who claim that customers tend to be dissatisfied with their service recovery effort. The...

The fast growing demands of customers that face organizations are concerned with the acquisition of new customers. In this approach Knowledge has become a key source for organizations to improve the competitive advantage. Therefore, Knowledge Management (KM) is viewed as one of the most interesting options as it can produce competitive Advantage. Consequently, competitive advantage is essential...

This paper suggests a novel success framework for customer relationship management (CRM) based on a conceptual implementation model to identify associated critical factors and their contribution to overall success/failure. Fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) is applied to identify the relative importance of each factor in successful implementation of each stage and the CRM initiative as a uni...

In many instances, customers are seen as one of the key resources for new product development (NPD), as they often have deep product knowledge as well as experience and creativity potential gained by regular product usage. From knowledge management perspective, customers’ input to NPD is manifested in different forms of knowledge. Customers’ input to NPD typically reflects their needs and desir...

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. In this article we present the findings of a survey of customer-related KM initiatives’ status quo within organizations as the first step of a two-stage research approach. In a second step we build on the surv...

in recent decade, with increasing competition, attracting and retaining customers are known as the most valuable competitive tool for many organizations. customers have a key role in success of businesses, so the managing of customers' relationship is one of organization priorities. although some organizations have customer relationship management, they are not able to absorb customer sati...