International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Vol. 4, No. 7, July, 2017
ISSN 2383-2126 (Online)
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The Identification and Ranking of Effective
Indicators in Assessing Organization Readiness
to Accept Social CRM Using FANP
Sajjad Shokohyar
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Faculty Member of Information Technology Management Group, Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Ruhollah Tavallaee
Faculty Member of Information Technology Management Group, Shahid
Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Khadijeh Keramatnia
Master of Information Technology Management, Department of
Information Technology Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran,
Iran
Abstract
For today's organizations, customers have become important resources and
communications with them have been considered as valuable assets and
investments. Therefore, the effective management of customer relationship has
become a preferred task and an approach for managing in many organizations.
The dilemma, the organizations are faced with is that they go ahead directly
toward the preparation and implementation of new technologies, especially the
technology without determining their level of readiness and this causes that they
fail at the implementation stage or they do not benefit from the investment and
spending they have done. This study wants to investigate the indicators involved
in successful acceptance of this product and the degree of importance of these
indicators compared to other indicators. After identifying these indicators,
according to the research background and internal experts' opinion, the status of
these indicators has been assessed and they were ranked using multi-criteria
decision-making model known as fuzzy analytic network process in Iran's Mellat
Bank. Finally, by examining the fuzzy average of the studied organization data,
a general consensus has been achieved about the importance of each indicator as
well as their ranking based on the weight of each indicator compared to other
indicators in assessing Iranian organization readiness to accept social customer
relationship management. It is worth mentioning that this research paid more
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Corresponding author’s email: shokohyar@gmail.com