Customers are treated badly. Not all customers. Not always. But many are and often. Some customers are bad. They treat firms badly. Firms have to react. Employees and customers endure the consequences. Such bad behaviours, by firms and customers, have consequences for perceptions of trust and fairness, for endorsements and referrals, for repeat purchasing and loyalty, and ultimately for a firm's profitability and RoI. The management of customer relationships is core to the success and even survival of the firm. As The Dark Side of CRM explores, this is an area fraught with difficulties, duplicitous practice and undesirable behaviours. These need acknowledging, mitigating and controlling. This book is the first of its kind to define these dark sides, exploring also how firms and policy-makers might address such behaviours and manage them successfully. With contributions from many of the leading exponents globally of CRM and understanding customers, The Dark Side of CRM is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners interested in managing customers, relationship marketing and CRM, as well as social media and marketing strategy.
1. Introduction to The Dark Sides of CRM (Bang Nguyen, Ana Isabel Canhoto and Lyndon Simkin) 2. CRM and Customer Management: Identifying and Confronting Dark Side Behaviours (Pennie Frow, Adrian Payne, Louise Young and Ian Wilkinson) 3. Perceptions of Fairness and Unfairness (Lan Xia) 4. CRM and Social Media (Adam Rapp and Jessica Ogilvie) 5. Negative Word-of-Mouth, Misbehaviour and Revenge (Venessa Funches) 6. Good vs. Bad Relationship Framework (Donald Lund, Irina Kozlenkova and Robert Palmatier) 7. Opportunism, Transparency, Manipulation, Deception and Exploitation of Customers' Vulnerabilities in CRM (Gilles N'Goala) 8. The Dark Side of Business Relationships: An Overview (Ibrahim Abosag, Dorothy Yen and Caroline Tynan) 9. Dark Side of CRM: Brand Relationships and Violent Extremist Organisations (Mike Breazeale, Erin Pleggenkuhle-Miles, Mackenzie Harms and Gina Ligon) 10. Right Marketing to Wrong Customers - Rethinking Conventional CRM Strategies (Denish Shah) 11. Recovery From CRM Implementation Pitfalls: Integrating Learning Behaviour From Failures (Bang Nguyen and Xiaoyu Yu) 12. The Dark Side: Customers vs. Companies (Liz Machtynger, Martin Hickley, Merlin Stone and Paul Laughlin) 13. Conclusion to The Dark Sides of CRM (Bang Nguyen, Ana Isabel Canhoto and Lyndon Simkin)
