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Article
Effect of CRM’s Critical Success Factors on Company Performance
Author(s)
Mübeyyen Tepe Küçükoğlu, Recep İbrahim Pınar
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DOI:doi: 10.17265/2328-2185/2015.0102.005
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Mübeyyen Tepe Küçükoğlu, Ph.D., lecturer, Vocational School Logistics Program, Yeni Yüzyıl University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Recep İbrahim Pınar, Ph.D., professor, Faculty of Business Management, İstanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey.
ABSTRACT
In the last years, most of the leader companies have advantages of their CRM (customer relationship management) systems in order to improve their market share. These companies implement CRM systems to get loyal customer portfolio and maintain the sustainability of it. While they are building CRM strategies, they try to catch business excellence results like valuable marketing opportunities, improve customer value and customer satisfaction. CRM gained prominence as a marketing sub-discipline in the 1990s, fueled by publications like The One to One Future and The Loyalty Effect. Some studies were especially powerful in highlighting the gap between the cost of acquiring customers and retaining them. The quest for competitive advantage and profitability triggered a rush to implement CRM programs in enterprises both large and small in all corners of the globe. Different kinds of studies show that there are some key components which play a critical role in gaining success for companies which use CRM applications. At this situation, these key components are named as critical success factors. Purpose of this study is to find out that how these critical success factors affect results which show company performance. On this direction, critical success factors are defined as independent variable and company performance is defined as dependent variable. A supportive model is suggested. In order to verify proposed model, hypotheses are developed and a survey is applied in automotive sales agents in Turkey. The study is completed with survey results.
KEYWORDS
company performance, critical success factors, CRM (customer relationship management)
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