Designing a Customer Experience Management Framework in a Social Business: A Mixed Approach

Today, customer experience management (CEM) is the dominant competitive strategy in the field of businesses based Internet and social media platforms. Social commerce, as one of the new forms of e-commerce, will be the dominant form of future business, and the focus on customer experience has been emphasized in this area. In spite of the importance of customer experience in social commerce, there is little research in this area and there is no clear understanding of how to manage the experiences of social customers. For this purpose, the main objective of the current study is to design a framework for CEM in social commerce. The research approach in this research is a mixed approach. The research method is qualitative, focal group strategy and in the quantitative, descriptive-survey method. In the first step of research, in order to extract the proposed components of the framework, in addition to reviewing the literature, the focus group method, consisting of seven experts, has been used. In the second step, a survey method and a questionnaire were used to review the experts’ opinions and weight of the framework components. At this stage, 37 experts participated in the research, and the data were analyzed using the mark and mean test. The research results indicate that the customer experience management framework includes the dimensions of individuals, performance evaluation, content quality of experience, technology and tools, process, strategy, and governance. The research helps managers to create adaptability in customer interactions during social trade exchanges.