Investigating the Impact of Success Factors on Sustainable Electronic Customer Relationship Management on the Performance of an Insurance Company in the Context of Covid-19 Epidemic
Subject Areas : Management and Sustanable DevelopmentMohammad Abbasian 1 , Saied Sehhat 2
1 - Assistant Professor of Imam Ali University, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor of Business Administration, Faculty of Management & Accounting, Allame Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction, customer retention, Customer Trust, Sustainable Customer Relationship Management, Sustainable Electronic Customer Relationship Management,
Abstract :
The outbreak of dangerous epidemic diseases is one of the risk factors for facing critical thresholds, which is one of the most important challenges for sustainable development. Today, the COVID-19 epidemic has led to unpredictable changes. These changes have inevitably affected the relationship between sellers and customers and have changed the ways in which these two main pillars of business interact. In the meantime, the establishment of sustainable E-CRM, is considered as a sustainable competitive advantage and leads to sustainable CRM and customer loyalty and ultimately organization sustainable development. The present article aimed to investigate the effect of success factors of sustainable e-CRM in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, considering the mediating role of customer satisfaction, trust and retention on the performance of an insurance company and its sustainable development. This research is an applied and descriptive-survey correlation. The statistical population was the employees of an insurance company. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed as content validity method and its reliability was assessed as satisfactory through SPSS and confirmatory factor analysis. The research hypotheses were tested using the structural equation model. The results showed that the main hypothesis and eight sub-hypotheses were confirmed. In other words, the success factors of sustainable E-CRM in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, affect the performance of the insurance industry and lead to sustainable development. Of course, in this effect, customer satisfaction, trust and retention with averaging and standard deviation: 4.27±1.09, 3.75±1.25 and 3.33±0.73, respectively, play the role of partial mediation.
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Bettiol, M., Capestro, M., & Di Maria, E. M. (2021). Reacting to the Covid-19 pandemic through digital connectivity with customers: the Italian experience. Italian Journal of Marketing, 1-26.
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Byrne, B. M. (2010). Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming (2 ed.). New York.
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Peco-Torres, F., Polo-Peña, A. I., & Frías-Jamilena, D. M. (2021). Revenue management and CRM via online media: The effect of their simultaneous implementation on hospitality firm performance. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 47, 46-57.
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Rangriz, H., & Bayrami Shahrivar, Z. (2019). The effect of e-CRM, on customer loyalty using data mining techniques. Scientific Quarterly of Smart Business Management Studies, 7(27), 175-205. (In Persian)
Saburi, N. (2021). Investigating the Role of Financial Flexibility in Sustainable Development on Company Performance during the COVID-19 Crisis with Consideration of Tangible Assets (Case Study: Companies Listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange). Journal of New Research Approaches in Management and Accounting, 5(66), 48-66. (In Persian)
Saebonia, S., Arjang, S., & Javidi, A. (2019). Investigating the effect of customer satisfaction and trust on Saipa body warranty in Saipa Automotive Group 2110 in Ardabil province. New research approaches in management and accounting, 1(11), 85-97. (In Persian)
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