[HTML][HTML] Understanding B2B customer journeys for complex digital services: The case of cloud computing

C Terpoorten, JF Klein, K Merfeld - Industrial Marketing Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Cloud computing services represent a rapidly growing business-to-business (B2B) market,
but managers lack guidance on managing the customer journey for these complex digital …

How business usage center members' self-concepts affect their perceptions and assessments in organizational usage processes

M Huber, M Kleinaltenkamp - Industrial Marketing Management, 2023 - Elsevier
In business-to-business settings, purchasing dominantly takes place within customer-
supplier relationships. Therefore, from a supplier perspective, it is important to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Augmented and virtual reality in managing B2B customer experiences

DAC Wieland, BS Ivens, E Kutschma… - Industrial Marketing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are promising approaches that B2B
companies consider to be part of their customer experience management. However, this …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and managing engagement journeys

E Jaakkola, M Alexander - Journal of Service Management, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Existing research on customer journeys has tended to focus on the customer's
purchase decision-making and firm-controlled touchpoints, overlooking indirect touchpoints …

Customer journey design in omnichannel retailing: Examining the effect of autonomy-competence-relatedness in brand relationship building

L Zheng, Y Li - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Customer journey design (CJD) has garnered significant attention among scholars and
practitioners due to the proliferation of digital products and platform technologies which …

From buying centers to buying ecosystems: Advancing the B2B research journey

M Ehret, WJ Johnston, T Ritter - Industrial Marketing Management, 2024 - Elsevier
The buying center is a signature theoretical concept in B2B marketing and in general
marketing research on organizational buying. It unveils interactions across organizations …

Customer experience management (CXM) and new product success: an empirical investigation

GA Athaide, JQ Zhang, RR Klink - European Journal of Innovation …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Customer experience management (CXM) and Innovation are two important
capabilities on which businesses compete today. However, research to date has not …

Buying centers and emerging developments: the SME perspective

S Cardinali, P Sharma, E Cedrola… - Journal of Business & …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by buying
centers in small and medium enterprises (SME) manufacturing companies in view of recent …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing the loss of exploratory innovation: the roles of organizational foresight and strategic orientation

R Zhang, J Lin, S Li, Y Cai - Journal of Business & Industrial …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to explore how to overcome and address the loss of exploratory
innovation, thereby achieving greater success in exploratory innovation. This phenomenon …

Making of a social buyer: the role of knowledge capital authenticity and inter-firm communication in B2B sales situations

P Sanyal, R Singh, R Singh - Journal of Marketing Theory and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study explores the mediating role of knowledge capital repository and inter-firm
communication on the relationship between social media adoption by business-to-business …