Purpose: This paper adopts a conservation of resources (COR) theoretical approach to examine the process of value co-destruction (VCD) emanating from the misuse of customer resources by organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A critical incidents approach was adopted where 120 customers recounted their negative experiences. The analysis identified both the nature of resources and processes ...

Purpose: This paper adopts a conservation of resources (COR) theoretical approach to examine the process of value co-destruction (VCD) emanating from the misuse of customer resources by organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A critical incidents approach was adopted where 120 customers recounted their negative experiences. The analysis identified both the nature of resources and processes ...

Purpose: This paper adopts a conservation of resources (COR) theoretical approach to examine the process of value co-destruction (VCD) emanating from the misuse of customer resources by organisations. Design/methodology/approach: A critical incidents approach was adopted where 120 customers recounted their negative experiences. The analysis identified both the nature of resources and processes ...

Recent market developments such as increasing digitalization of services, professionalization of customers, and transparency about the specific value of IT services, are putting IT consulting firms as well as their customers under pressure. Thus, it is of high importance that IT consultancies and their customers are jointly working together to innovate new services and solve specific tasks whic...

In this chapter we discuss the development of solutions from two viewpoints: Commercialization: We explain why firms need to use customer-value research in order to create a deep understanding of customers’ business realities. The key questions here focus on what creates value for the customers and how do customers measure success. Industrialization: We show that the cornerstone of a successful...

This study seeks to explain why telecom customers would continue use mobile value-added services (MVAS), including information, communication, entertainment, and transaction services. We developed a model based on the S-O-R paradigm existing research MVAS service quality, in which we hypothesize that customers' intention using as behavioural response (R) is direct result of their satisfaction w...

Nowadays, marketing serves the purpose of maximizing customer lifetime value (CLV) and customer equity, which is the sum of the lifetime values of the company’s customers. But, CLV calculation encounters some difficulties which limit the usage of this technique. Nonetheless, companies looking for methods to know how to calculate their customers’ CLV. In this paper, fuzzy classification rules we...

this study investigates the factors affecting the brand loyalty of the customers of auto-mobile industry in region of pakistan with the use of ecsi model. a well-organized structured questionnaire was distributed among the customers of auto-mobile industry. the questionnaire was based on 5 point likert-type scale. results show that the customer expectations have a direct positive impact on perc...

When a firm implements analytical CRM, the value of a customer is assessed by profitability analysis. In a sense, a firm retains profitable customers but “fires” unprofitable ones. In this paper, we show that this typical customer selection strategy is not appropriate for a firm of goods and services that exhibit network externalities because of the strategic network value of unprofitable custo...