Psychological antecedents of consumer trust in CRM campaigns and donation intentions: The moderating role of creativity

Cause-related marketing (CRM) refers to charitable donation contingent on consumer purchase of a product by supporting a specific cause that is linked to a non-profit organization (NPO). The present research examines the influence of consumer psychographic traits on trust in CRM campaign and its resulting impact on intention to donate money to NPO. The results indicate that collectivism and hedonism have positive effect on trust in CRM campaign, but individualism and utilitarianism have negative effect on trust in CRM campaign. Moreover, the result shows that trust in the CRM campaign had significant positive effect on donation intentions. We further have investigated the role of cognitive process and demonstrated the moderating effect of creativity on the impact of trust in CRM campaign and donation intentions, such that the higher level of creativity led to higher level of donation intentions, if consumers have trust in CRM campaign. This research offers marketers and advertising professionals’ practical insights to design effective CRM campaigns. Additionally, it assists NPO managers to understand the crucial role of trust and creativity in CRM campaigns and its positive impact on donation intentions. Academic and managerial implications of this research study along with future directions are discussed.     

A knowledge-enabled procedure for customer relationship management

The value of knowledge management and customer relationship management is well recognized by many leading companies. This study presents a proposed model of Knowledge-enabled Customer Relationship Management and demonstrates the way in which the presented model can facilitate the identification of important factors that have key impacts on business performance in particular settings. The results show that employees in the steel industry indicate that to provide product and service information for customers and to share internally the best practice information can have benefits for hard measures such as market share, repeat purchases, and customer retention and for soft measures such as customer satisfaction, market leadership and customer loyalty. Employees in the textile industry report that to provide customer complaint information of customers and to share internally the best practice information can have benefits for hard measures such as customer retention, cost savings, and market share and for soft measures such as customer satisfaction, market leadership, customer loyalty, and customer and employee productivity.     

Developing customised CRM projects: The role of industry norms,organisational context and customer expectations on CRM implementation

This research paper investigates the influence of industry, organisational, and customer context on customer relationship management (CRM) projects. Organisations go through four phases in their CRM projects (assessment, design, implementation, and evaluation), yet the impact of industry norms, organisational contexts, and customer expectations on each phase are rarely examined. A longitudinal case study approach with six cases was used to investigate the potential impact of contextual factors on CRM projects. The cases covered a range of industries, organisational structures, and customer types. We found that current industry conditions and customer expectations influence the reasons for undertaking CRM and the assessment stage of the project. The organisational context has a noticeable impact on the design and implementation project stages. At the evaluation level, customer responses combined with organisational expectations affect the perceived success of the projects. By understanding the impact of context, customised CRM projects can be developed.     

Mediated Effects of Customer Orientation on Customer Relationship Management Performance

ABSTRACT

Drawing on relationship marketing and management theory, the author examines how customer orientation can stimulate employee training and customer information processing capability when firms implement customer relationship management (CRM). The researcher also investigates how employee training and customer information processing affect CRM performance in light of customer satisfaction and financial performance. Restaurant data support the proposed model, which incorporated mediated relationships among customer orientation, training orientation, customer information processing, and CRM performance. The findings indicate that training orientation and customer information processing mediate the effect of customer orientation on CRM performance. The empirical results suggest theoretical and managerial implications for CRM implementation and strategies.     

中国企业的事业关联营销策略分析

事业关联营销(cause-related marketing,CRM)是企业的社会责任与企业利益的战略性结盟,是企业通过将自身的产品和品牌与特定的关联事业绑定,从而在消费者心目中树立良好企业与品牌形象,进一步制造差异化的战略性工具。本文介绍了事业关联营销的产生及其重要作用,分析了中国企业在开展事业关联营销活动中存在的主要问题,提出了相关的建议。     

Strategic Corporate Philanthropy: Addressing Frontline Talent Needs Through an Educational Giving Program

Corporate philanthropy describes the action when a corporation voluntarily donates a portion of its resources to a societal cause. Although the thought of philanthropy invokes feelings of altruism, there are many objectives for corporate giving beyond altruism. Meeting strategic corporate objectives can be an important if not primary goal of philanthropy. The purpose of this paper is to share insights from a strategic corporate philanthropic initiative aimed at increasing the pool of frontline customer contact employees who are performance-ready, while supporting curriculum development and infrastructure improvement for selected university business programs, creating a win-win situation for the company and the universities. This paper will address three objectives. First, we will examine the evolution of strategic philanthropy from the traditional view to its current position as a strategic option. Second, we will address the recruitment of front line talent needs (customer facing jobs in sales, customer service, and marketing) based on the profit maximization model of strategic philanthropy. Finally, we will offer conclusions and issues for future research.     

客户关系管理与供应链管理系统整合模式研究

讨论了客户关系管理与供应链管理两者的关系与整合的必要性,提出了客户关系管理与供应链管理整合的原则及过程。     

我国企业导入CRM失败的成因初探

客户关系管理(CRM)的基本思想与理论起源于20世纪八十年代初西方经济发达国家,其概念、理论与CRM软件于九十年代初被引入我国,并得到国内许多企业的广泛重视和应用,由于受到客户关系管理理论本身、CRM软件开发与实施、企业营销环境和营销管理状况等诸多方面因素的影响,CRM软件作为一种舶来品,其在我国企业的导入过程中,存在着较高的失败率和一些急需解决的问题。本文就我国企业导入CRM及失败的成因进行初步探讨。     

CRM与企业战略

随着市场经济和信息技术的发展,基于信息技术的客户关系管理(CRM)应运而生,并成为企业的发展趋势。CRM以高新技术的形式呈现出来,但实际上,CRM并不仅仅是技术的开发应用,而是一个完整的商业战略。成功的CRM必须从企业战略高度来实施。CRM系统的有效运转离不开战略思想的指导。CRM与企业战略紧密交融,构成企业市场竞争能力的有力保障。     

试谈网络营销组合中的第五个“C”——客户关系管理

文章从营销的角度对客户关系管理进行了探索,研究了网络经济时代客户关系管理的重要性,提出了网络营销组合的 5C 模式,对企业如何实施客户关系管理提出了相关建议。