英文摘要 |
Due to the increasingly intensive market competition, many businesses are transforming from product-centric to customer-centric operation. In recent years customer relationship management (CRM) is emerging as an important management theme in regard to customer-centric operation. It is now widely accepted as an effective avenue to fulfill various marketing activities. This paper attempts to determine the factors that distinguish the businesses that have adopted CRM mechanisms from those have not. It further categorizes the CRM mechanisms into four application types: transaction process type, customer service type, data analysis type, and marketing activity type. The businesses are grouped into three according to the depth of the application in each CRM application type: the all-around group, the basic-application group, and the low-achievement group. The difference of the overall perceived performance among these three groups is statistically insignificant. However, when separating the perceived performance into financial and non-financial performances, the analysis reveals that the difference in the financial performance between the all-around group and the low-achievement is statistically significant. |