This thesis addresses the issue of customer complaints in the context of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). After a comprehensive survey of the current literature on CRM, the thesis describes the development of a new intelligent CRM (I-CRM) framework, which integrates text analytics, type mapping, SPSS, structural equation modeling, and linear and fuzzy approaches. This new methodology, in contrast to previous ones, is able to handle customer complaints with respect to different variables, thus allowing organizations to find their key customers and key complaints, and to address and...

This thesis addresses the issue of customer complaints in the context of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). After a comprehensive survey of the current literature on CRM, the thesis describes the development of a new intelligent CRM (I-CRM) framework, which integrates text analytics, type mapping, SPSS, structural equation modeling, and linear and fuzzy approaches. This new methodology, in contrast to previous ones, is able to handle customer complaints with respect to different variables, thus allowing organizations to find their key customers and key complaints, and to address and...