{"id":43,"date":"2008-03-26T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukom.mondragon.edu\/relacionesconclientes\/2008\/03\/26\/customer-relationship-management-in-virtual-communities\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T19:46:00","slug":"customer-relationship-management-in-virtual-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mukom.mondragon.edu\/relacionesconclientes\/2008\/03\/26\/customer-relationship-management-in-virtual-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Relationship Management in Virtual Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last week we were informed that Basque Governement\u00b4s Industry Department<\/a>, has approved a research proposal we made in the Saiotek program<\/a>. This project is about launching a Industrial Marketing Institute<\/span>, where collect all the knowledge generated about the topic. The project has two main objectives, 1) generate the knowledge, by means of a research and 2) create and develop a community, where people can share knowledge.<\/p>\n

Speaking with David<\/a>, who is researching about on-line communities<\/a>, we concluded that it is a great opportunity to materialize the work we are doing separately. Related with this topic I have found a paper from MSI <\/a>about Customer Relationship Management in virtual communities<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> In this study, professor Constance Elise Porter (Notre Dame University) and professor Naveen Donthu<\/a> (Georgia State University) explore how companies can use virtual communities to build relationships with consumers.<\/p>\n

First of all they define virtual community as \u00aban aggregation of individuals or business partners who interact based on a shared interest, where the interaction is at least partially suported and\/or mediated by technology and guided by certain protocols and norms<\/span>\u00ab. From here on, they propose a model where TRUST <\/span>is the central concept. The authors hypothesize that customer perceptions about the companie`s efforts to provide quality content<\/span>, to foster members embeddedness<\/span> and to encourage interactions<\/span> in the virtual community will foster favorable beliefs and trust the company. The resultant trust will motivate customers (relational outcomes), <\/p>\n

– To share personal information<\/span> with the company
– To cooperate on new product development<\/span>
– To be more loyal<\/span><\/p>\n

The main findings of this interesting research are:<\/p>\n

1. There is a positive association between trust and customer behaviour<\/span>, that is, customer willingness to share personal information with the virtual community sponsor, willingness to cooperate in new product development or customer loyalty.<\/p>\n

2. Fostering member`s embeddedness has greater impact on customer beliefs than providing access to quality content<\/span>. From 90\u00b4s \u00abthe content is the king\u00bb to \u00abthe embeddedness is the emperor\u00bb.<\/p>\n

3. Fostering customer`s embeddedness has favorable and unfavorable effects<\/span>. Communitie`s members can see sponsor`s efforts as opportunistic even though has no significant effect on trust.<\/p>\n

4. The mere facilitation of interaction does not produce favorable consumer beliefs about the company<\/span>.<\/p>\n

5. The study underline the importance of using new techhnologies to manage relationships<\/span> with customers rather than simply generate transactions.<\/p>\n

6. Web interventions engender customer trust.<\/span> Even though managers tend to think that using a community can be seen by customers as a way to manipulate them, this is not completely true. Consumers tend to tolerate certain degree of opportunism in commercial relationships.<\/p>\n

7. But companies must be very careful about the information provided to community members<\/span>, too much emphasize on favorable information about the company can result on lower trust in the company.<\/p>\n

And I wonder<\/span>, are these findings valid to industrial customer-based communities?<\/p>\n

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