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題名 Assessing Customer Retention in B2C Electronic Commerce: An Empirical Study
作者 管郁君
Huang, Eugenia;Tsui, Chia-jung
貢獻者 資管系
關鍵詞 customer retention;repeat purchase behavior;inter-purchase time;B2C electronic commerce;empirical study
日期 2016-10
上傳時間 20-Apr-2017 16:45:55 (UTC+8)
摘要 In the challenging environment of the transparent electronic marketplace in which competitors are only a click away, Web retailers are particularly vulnerable to customer attrition. Central to business growth and survival, customer retention is an important issue that every business strives to understand and harness. While some studies have attempted to determine the factors that influence customer retention, few measure it quantitatively. However, businesses have long been eager to have quantitative information concerning their customer base: How many of their customers they can consider retained at any given time? What time lapse should trigger an alert that the customer may have defected? Based on real purchasing data from a Web retailer, and using 80 percentage of assurance as an example, this paper proposes a customer retention assessment method by calculating the aggregate 80th percentile of maximum inter-purchase times and confirms the validity of this method by showing that the assessment successfully sets apart valuable customers, in terms of number of orders, average spending per order, and total spending. This research not only enables researchers to undertake longitudinal studies of customer re-patronage behavior, but also helps practitioners monitor customer retention effectively.
關聯 Journal of Marketing Analytics,
資料類型 article
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41270-016-0007-x
dc.contributor 資管系
dc.creator (作者) 管郁君zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Huang, Eugenia;Tsui, Chia-jung
dc.date (日期) 2016-10
dc.date.accessioned 20-Apr-2017 16:45:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 20-Apr-2017 16:45:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 20-Apr-2017 16:45:55 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/108991-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) In the challenging environment of the transparent electronic marketplace in which competitors are only a click away, Web retailers are particularly vulnerable to customer attrition. Central to business growth and survival, customer retention is an important issue that every business strives to understand and harness. While some studies have attempted to determine the factors that influence customer retention, few measure it quantitatively. However, businesses have long been eager to have quantitative information concerning their customer base: How many of their customers they can consider retained at any given time? What time lapse should trigger an alert that the customer may have defected? Based on real purchasing data from a Web retailer, and using 80 percentage of assurance as an example, this paper proposes a customer retention assessment method by calculating the aggregate 80th percentile of maximum inter-purchase times and confirms the validity of this method by showing that the assessment successfully sets apart valuable customers, in terms of number of orders, average spending per order, and total spending. This research not only enables researchers to undertake longitudinal studies of customer re-patronage behavior, but also helps practitioners monitor customer retention effectively.
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dc.relation (關聯) Journal of Marketing Analytics,
dc.subject (關鍵詞) customer retention;repeat purchase behavior;inter-purchase time;B2C electronic commerce;empirical study
dc.title (題名) Assessing Customer Retention in B2C Electronic Commerce: An Empirical Study
dc.type (資料類型) article
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1057/s41270-016-0007-x
dc.doi.uri (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41270-016-0007-x