The impact of customer relationship management and service quality on corporate performance: A study of Thai banks in the central of Northeastern region
Abstract:
Thailand has adjusted its economy by emphasizing more on services especially the financial institution. The study intended to analyze relationship among variables in particular the customer relationship management (CRM) comprising people, process and technology which are strategic approaches to service provision. Also service quality measured from assurance, responsiveness, empathy, reliability has an impact on bank performance. The study area is in the middle part of the northeastern region, namely Roi-et, Kalasin, Yasothorn, Mukdahan, and Mahasarakham and the main bank branches are the Siam Commercial Bank, the Bangkok Bank, the Kasikorn Bank and KrungsriAyudthaya Bank. The populations are those working as branch managers, assistant managers, accountants. There are 90 bank branches in the area. The questionnaire, for data analysis, was distributed to those branches, of which 345 was usable for analysis. The reliability of the questionnaire, based on Cronbachs alpha coefficient, was .85 which is acceptable. The study method was descriptive and statistical analysis includes one-way ANOVA and multivariate analysis of variance. The results revealed that the CRM construct of which key customer focus, and technology-based CRM were statistical significant and service quality construct have affected the bank performance in terms of market share and credit applications. The Customer Service (CS), Empathy (EM), Relibility (REA), Responsiveness (RE) and Tangible (TA). The MANOVA results showed that key customer focus component of the CRM and the empathy and reliability components of the service quality were able to explain 61.7 percent of the performance variances. The analysis suggests that in order to raise higher business performance, the bank pay attention to key customer centric, empathy and reliability to customers. The findings were supported 99.07 percent by experts in the field and assured implementation fully.