Title: Determining the main dimensions that affect e-customer relationship management readiness in the Egyptian banking industry

Authors: N. El Essawi; R. Abd El Aziz

Addresses: Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, P.O. Box 1024, Miami, Alexandria, Egypt ' Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, P.O. Box 1024, Miami, Alexandria, Egypt

Abstract: Adopting electronic customer relationship management (e-CRM) in a country like Egypt, with over 80 million, needs clear understanding of the Egyptian users' characteristics, perception, and e-readiness. E-CRM provides various benefits to banks, employees and bank clients, and can serve a great number of users regardless of the bank's capacity and working hours. In order to better understand the e-CRM readiness in the Egyptian context, a structured questionnaire was devised to survey a sufficient number of bank employees; as the actual e-CRM users. The investigation was conducted in Alexandria, as the second main city in Egypt. Data collected was analysed statistically using SPSS. From the data analysis, supported by a review of literature, the researchers could better understand the problem, derive conclusions and make recommendations to e-CRM decision makers, which would help promote and enhance the e-CRM in Egypt.

Keywords: electronic CRM; customer relationship management; e-CRM adoption; e-readiness; readiness; adoption; technology perception; banking industry; Egypt; organisational culture; corporate strategy; employee perception.

DOI: 10.1504/IJECRM.2012.051874

International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management, 2012 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.217 - 234

Published online: 16 Aug 2014 *

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