Recent years have witnessed the rise of new media channels such as Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter, which enable customers to take a more active role as market players and reach (and be reached by) almost everyone anywhere and anytime. These new media threaten long established business models and corporate strategies, but also provide ample opportunities for growth through new adaptive strategies. This paper introduces a new ‘‘pinball’’ framework of new media’s impact on relationships with customers and identifies key new media phenomena which companies should take into account when managing their relationships with customers in the new media universe. For each phenomenon, we identify challenges for researchers and managers which relate to (a) the understanding of consumer behavior, (b) the use of new media to successfully manage customer interactions, and (c) the effective measurement of customers’ activities and outcomes.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Hennig-Thurau01082010
%A Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten
%A Malthouse, Edward C.
%A Friege, Christian
%A Gensler, Sonja
%A Lobschat, Lara
%A Rangaswamy, Arvind
%A Skiera, Bernd
%D 2010
%J Journal of Service Research
%K Marketing Media Social om09
%N 3
%P 311-330
%R 10.1177/1094670510375460
%T The Impact of New Media on Customer Relationships
%U http://jsr.sagepub.com/content/13/3/311.full.pdf+html
%V 13
%X Recent years have witnessed the rise of new media channels such as Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter, which enable customers to take a more active role as market players and reach (and be reached by) almost everyone anywhere and anytime. These new media threaten long established business models and corporate strategies, but also provide ample opportunities for growth through new adaptive strategies. This paper introduces a new ‘‘pinball’’ framework of new media’s impact on relationships with customers and identifies key new media phenomena which companies should take into account when managing their relationships with customers in the new media universe. For each phenomenon, we identify challenges for researchers and managers which relate to (a) the understanding of consumer behavior, (b) the use of new media to successfully manage customer interactions, and (c) the effective measurement of customers’ activities and outcomes.
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abstract = {Recent years have witnessed the rise of new media channels such as Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter, which enable customers to take a more active role as market players and reach (and be reached by) almost everyone anywhere and anytime. These new media threaten long established business models and corporate strategies, but also provide ample opportunities for growth through new adaptive strategies. This paper introduces a new ‘‘pinball’’ framework of new media’s impact on relationships with customers and identifies key new media phenomena which companies should take into account when managing their relationships with customers in the new media universe. For each phenomenon, we identify challenges for researchers and managers which relate to (a) the understanding of consumer behavior, (b) the use of new media to successfully manage customer interactions, and (c) the effective measurement of customers’ activities and outcomes.},
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author = {Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten and Malthouse, Edward C. and Friege, Christian and Gensler, Sonja and Lobschat, Lara and Rangaswamy, Arvind and Skiera, Bernd},
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title = {The Impact of New Media on Customer Relationships},
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