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Rethinking Social CRM Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective

In: Handbook of Strategic e-Business Management

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  • Hong-Mei Chen

    (Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

  • Stephen L. Vargo

    (Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Abstract

The rapid rise of powerful social customers has drastically changed the e-business landscape. Social CRM (SCRM) emerged in late 2009 as an e-business strategy for companies to enable customer relationship management (with social customers) utilizing social technology. Despite the many applications that are labeled as SCRM, there is a dearth of guidelines for SCRM design and development. Many companies are trapped using social media as just another communication channel, and have naively applied traditional Electronic CRM (ECRM) practices on social platforms based on a model of exchange that centers on goods (e.g., goods-dominant logic or G-D logic), with value created by the firm and relationship implying multiple transactions of value-laden output. G-D logic might have served companies in the pre-Web 2.0 environment in which the interaction with customers could be contained in one-to-one, closed, well-defined channels. However, in a collaborative open, social environment in which interactions cannot be contained and are often unpredictable, this firm-centric, transaction-oriented approach is at odds with how social customers behave and expect, and therefore becomes inadequate in fostering true relationships that cultivate devoted advocates and brand co-creators. In this chapter, we offer an alternative logic called service-dominant (S-D) logic for SCRM design to meet new challenges. S-D logic is based on the reciprocal application of applied competences (service), which sees relationship in terms of co-creation of value. We argue that the S-D logic perspective for SCRM is appropriate, if not essential. We offer S-D logic-informed strategies for SCRM and next-generation CRM system design.

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  • Hong-Mei Chen & Stephen L. Vargo, 2014. "Rethinking Social CRM Design: A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective," Progress in IS, in: Francisco J. Martínez-López (ed.), Handbook of Strategic e-Business Management, edition 127, pages 767-784, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-642-39747-9_32
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39747-9_32
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    1. Nha Nguyen & Gaston LeBlanc, 2021. "The Impact of Service Employees and Servicescape on Customers’ Perception of Quality Improvement Efforts," Athens Journal of Business & Economics, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), vol. 7(2), pages 123-144, April.
    2. Mohammad Hasan Galib & Khalid Ait Hammou & Jennifer Steiger, 2018. "Predicting Consumer Behavior: An Extension of Technology Acceptance Model," International Journal of Marketing Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(3), pages 1-73, August.
    3. Mahmood Al-Bashayreh & Dmaithan Almajali & Manaf Al-Okaily & Ra’ed Masa’deh & Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan, 2022. "Evaluating Electronic Customer Relationship Management System Success: The Mediating Role of Customer Satisfaction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-23, September.
    4. Norberto Muñiz-Martinez & Magdalena Florek, 2023. "Food-based place branding as holistic place ecosystems: the case of Basque Gastronomic Ecosystem," Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 19(1), pages 155-166, March.

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