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Top1. Introduction
Electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) is one of the primary strategic initiatives in many organizations today. Due to the competitiveness that exists among organizations and the rapid changes in the business environment, the acquisition of Electronic Customers has become a top priority.
Girinath and Ravi (2013) noted that “In order to survive in the present world of competition, banks’ marketing strategy needs to be formulated in such a way as to persuade the customers.” “Consequently, e-CRM describes the broad range of technologies used to support a company’s CRM strategy. It can be seen to arise from the consolidation of traditional CRM with the e-business applications marketplace” (Kennedy (2006). With this approach, Electronic Customer Knowledge has become a strategic resource and an important asset for sustaining an Electronic Customer acquisition.
Recently, Ogunde et al (2010) noted that e-commerce organizations still have competency challenges in Customer Knowledge Management (CKM); therefore, an organization’s ability to develop competencies in all aspects of CKM, from understanding who their customers really are and what they want, to designing stages specifically for customers becomes a necessity. It is important for customer processes involving information collected from and about customers to be turned into knowledge, disseminated and used.
Also, Papoutsakis and Vallès (2006) indicate that organizations should particularly emphasize determining who their best customers are, as well as, locate and acquire new customers who will be similarly loyal and profitable. Therefore, KM is viewed as one if not the most important option as it can produce a distinct Electronic Customer acquisition (Cao and Gruca., 2005)
While numerous studies relating to e-CRM have been conducted, there has been a definite lack of academic effort addressing the issue of the Electronic Customer Knowledge model in the banking sector. In these conceptual frameworks, they concentrate on how Electronic Customer Knowledge mediating by Electronic customer attraction could be evaluated on Electronic Customer acquisition. Our study seeks to contribute to this field by addressing one of the concerns related to the Electronic Customer Knowledge and Electronic customer attraction and by providing a reliable and confident method of employing Electronic Customer acquisition as a valid model. This implies which Electronic Customer acquisition aspects should be focused on depending on the conceptualized perspective of the Electronic Customer Knowledge and Electronic customer attraction. As a result, the aim of this paper is to shed light on establishing long-term relationships with customers by using Electronic customer attraction process to support Electronic Customer acquisition and how they can be built while showing how Jordanian Islamic Banks utilize the Electronic Customer Knowledge mediating by Electronic customer attraction to evaluated Electronic Customer acquisition.
The following sections are organized as follows: Section two reviews relevant literature; section three proposes the research model and hypothesis, section four introduces the research methodology (i.e., the design of the questionnaire, sample, data collection, hypotheses analysis and results), and the last section presents the conclusion.