Driving Retail Growth: The Interplay of Customer-Centric Technology, Customer Accountability and Organisational Culture
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- 14 March 2025
- book chapter
- Published by Emerald Publishing
- p. 13-26
Abstract
In contemporary quickly developing retail world, achievements depend on careful coordination of elements. The investigation investigates the fluid relationship between customer-centric technology (CCT), customer responsibility (CR) and organisational culture (OC) in order to determine their combined influence on retail business. To untangle this sophisticated network, we use a Likert scale survey in which those polled, largely from Karachi retail establishments, rate a collection of carefully constructed claims along a range of 1–5. The goal is to acquire understanding of ways these factors relate and impact retail performance. The sample being studied is made up of various retail outlets in Karachi, an exciting city featuring a vast range of retail enterprises. To assure the study's accuracy, we carefully chose an assortment of 65 retail outlets that fulfilled certain criteria. The sample below represents an area of Karachi's retail industry, representing different sizes, varieties and marketplaces. By covering this broad range of establishments, we want to gain a full understanding of the mechanisms at work within the regional retail environment. To uncover relevant relationships and trends, we used the Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) to analyse our data. A Likert scale survey is our major data gathering instrument. Participants are provided with comments on CCT, customer accountability and organisational culture. They are subsequently prompted to score their consent with every assertion using a scale of one (completely disagree) to five (completely agree). This technique enables us to quantify and examine their sample's views and impressions about these crucial elements.Keywords
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