Automated service quality and its behavioural consequences in CRM Environment: A structural equation modeling and ausal loop iagramming approach


Arup Kumar Baksi


Information technology induced communications (ICTs) have revolutionized the operational aspects of service sector and have triggered a perceptual shift in service quality as rapid dis-intermediation has changed the access-mode of services on part of the consumers. ICT-enabled services further stimulated the perception of automated service quality with renewed dimensions and there subsequent significance to influence the behavioural outcomes of the consumers. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has emerged as an offshoot to technological breakthrough as it ensured service-encapsulation by integrating people, process and technology.


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Keywords: Automated service quality ,CRM ,Structural equation model ,Bank ,ICT ,Behavioural consequence

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Baksi, A. (2012). Automated service quality and its behavioural consequences in CRM Environment: A structural equation modeling and ausal loop iagramming approach.Management Science Letters, 2(4), 1239-1258.


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