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Developing e-store marketing strategies to satisfy customers' needs using a new hybrid gray relational model

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  • Wan Yu Chiu

    (Department of Information and Finance Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan)

  • Gwo Hshiung Tzeng

    (Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, College of Public Affairs, National Taipei University, 151, University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City 23741, Taiwan;
    Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan)

  • Han Lin Li

    (Department of Information and Finance Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan)

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of online shopping services, e-stores are experiencing ever more fierce competition. Thus, it is imperative that managers take steps to improve their services and ensure customer loyalty, and this can only be done by understanding their customers' needs and developing appropriate marketing strategies. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to propose a new hybrid gray relational model to enhance strategies by adopting innovation and creativity to achieve the aspiration level in each dimension/criterion of satisfying/promoting human life and convenient service. This new hybrid gray relational model, which can improve the performance of each criteria to close the aspiration level of each reference point, will address interdependent problems among dimensions/criteria in the real world and provide feedback. More specifically, a DANP (DEMATEL-based ANP) and a gray relational assessment model will be combined to produce an influential network relationship map (INRM), showing the influential weights and gaps between the actual performance and the level of aspiration. As such, the contribution made by this research will be to produce the best strategies for e-store managers to improve their business model in order to meet customers' needs, encourage them to repurchase, and to enable stores to provide the most effective and efficient service for their customers.

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  • Wan Yu Chiu & Gwo Hshiung Tzeng & Han Lin Li, 2014. "Developing e-store marketing strategies to satisfy customers' needs using a new hybrid gray relational model," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(02), pages 231-261.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijitdm:v:13:y:2014:i:02:n:s0219622014500357
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219622014500357
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    1. Yi-Ching Hsieh & Hung-Chang Chiu & Yun-Chia Tang & Wei-Yun Lin, 2018. "Does Raising Value Co-creation Increase All Customers’ Happiness?," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 152(4), pages 1053-1067, November.
    2. Iuan-Yuan Lu & Tsuanq Kuo & Ting-Syuan Lin & Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng & Shan-Lin Huang, 2016. "Multicriteria Decision Analysis to Develop Effective Sustainable Development Strategies for Enhancing Competitive Advantages: Case of the TFT-LCD Industry in Taiwan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(7), pages 1-31, July.
    3. James J.H. Liou & Jolanta Tamošaitienė & Edmundas K. Zavadskas & Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, 2016. "New hybrid COPRAS-G MADM Model for improving and selecting suppliers in green supply chain management," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(1), pages 114-134, January.
    4. Marjan S. Jalali & Fernando A. F. Ferreira & João J. M. Ferreira & Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, 2016. "Integrating Metacognitive and Psychometric Decision-Making Approaches for Bank Customer Loyalty Measurement," International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(04), pages 815-837, July.

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