Customer Relationships in Electronic Commerce

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid growth of information technology, customer relationship management has attracted an increasing amount of attention as a new strategy for companies. To acquire new customers and retain old customers, many companies tend to use information technology, such as big data, mobile devices, social media, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing, to improve their services for customers. Currently, information technology is a necessary enabler of customer relationships in most organizations to store and analyze huge amounts of customer data and provide better values for customers. Moreover, the interaction interfaces between companies and customers will be changed. Through mobile devices, social media, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud computing, the contact points with customers will be more effective and affordable.

Since many companies likely use information technology and its applications for improving customer relationships in their businesses. It is still unclear whether the strategy can produce positive feedback from customers or better performance for companies. Moreover, before such applications can be developed and the benefits realized, companies need to address the possible challenging tasks and the obstacles possibly arise. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on customer relationships in electronic commerce to develop a better solution for researchers and practitioners.

The related topics for the Special Issue may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Customer value and customer relationships in electronic commerce.
• Customer data analysis and customer relationship management by using big data or data mining.
• Developing customer relationships by using social media.
• Developing customer relationships by using Internet of Things.
• Developing customer relationships by using AI technology.
• Analyzing customer data and developing service platforms by using cloud computing.
• Creating customer value by integrating the online and offline channels.
• Developing customer relationships in omni-channel commerce.
• The challenges or the obstacles of customer relationships in e-commerce.

Prof. Dr. Yung-Shen Yen
Collection Editor

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