"Relationship Marketing and Technology: A Love Hate Relationship? The programme will include a two-day full Academic Colloquium and a Business Day bridging the gap between Academia and Practice
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
You are invited to contribute an extended Abstract or a proposal for a
Debate, Panel Discussion or Poster presentation. The theme for this
year’s colloquium is “Relationship Marketing and Technology: a Love Hate Relationship?”.
Contributions are invited exploring the roles of technologies in relationship marketing in contemporary business and society.
We especially welcome submissions from multi-disciplinary
perspectives and those which demonstrate engagement with stakeholders
across the public, private and third sectors.
Potential topics
Potential topics include:
- Interdisciplinary perspectives of relationship marketing (RM), eg.,
technologies and database/direct marketing marketing, services and
technologies, customer relationships and technologies
- Customer base and network-based relationship marketing
- Management interdependencies between business actors (stakeholders) and customers
- Applications of contemporary technologies such as AIs, 5G,
mobile-wearables, cryptos, blockchain, games, immersives, and many
others
- Firm practice and customer demand on customised experience as a driving force in relationship management
- Technologies impacts eg., evolving and new channels, new ways of
interacting, changing roles of data, automation and artificial
intelligence, new types of services intervening in supply chains
- Contemporary issues for RM
- How the fundamental concepts of RM are evolving and adapting to reflect the influence of contemporary technologies
- Relevant theories that emerge for evolution of RM at both market-based and network-based levels
- How RM should be supported as a disciplinary field of interest
- Past, present and future perspectives of roles of technologies for/in RM
- Customer/stakeholder perspectives
- Value co-creation and RM
- Value and measurement of RM
- Sustainability, ethics and society for RM
- CSR in the age of advancing technologies for RM
- RM and well-being
- Challenges and opportunities in the sharing economy
- New and emerging business models