Service Marketing

Horst Tisson

Konzeption eines Inbound-induzierten Vertriebs

Optimierung von Service- und Vertriebsprozessen bei eingehenden Kundenkontakten im Call Center am Beispiel von Versicherungsunternehmen

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

Verschiedene Branchen befinden sich heute in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Die festzustellenden Marktveränderungen sind vielfältig determiniert. Deregulierungen und Liberalisierungen, Globalisierung bzw. Internationalisierung und die zunehmende Konzentration und Verflechtung von Unternehmen führen ebenso zu grundlegenden strukturellen Veränderungen wie der Technologiewandel, Veränderungen in den Vertriebsstrukturen und demographische […]

Moritz Mink

Value Creation in Business-to-Customer and Customer-to-Customer Relationships

Three Empirical Studies

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

This book covers two very relevant occurrences of customer relationships: The classical dyadic relationships between providers and its customers (B2C) and the more recent customer-to-customer relationships (C2C). Owing to the tremendous increase in customer connectivity through the web 2.0 and social media, especially the latter is rapidly gaining importance.

As a start, we introduce three quantitative/behavioral characteristics of […]

Konstantin Lange

The Influence of Advisors, Advisor-Customer Relationships, and the Financial Crisis on Satisfaction and Retention of Retail Banking Customers

Three Empirical Studies

Innovatives Dienstleistungsmanagement

For retail banks, as for other continuous service providers, CRM literature has focused on retention as the goal, given the higher profitability of customers who stay with the firm, when compared to newly attracted customers. Research has found a multitude of reasons for customers to stay with their firm, ranging from social effects to customers’ age and socioeconomic status. Of the different reasons, customer satisfaction with the service […]