Abstract:
Due tofierce competition in todays business environment, many companies are required
to build long- term profitable relationship with customers and to achieve better market
share. Therefore, CRM has become more and more important since the last decade of
20th century, especially in the service industry. As a result, this study is aimed to
empirically investigate the influence of CRM (key customer focus, customer knowledge
management, CRM organization and technology based CRM) on market share in banking
sector the case of selected commercial banks in Bahir Dar city.
This study adopts cross sectional design, Deductive approach and a quantitative method
as the research methodology. Accordingly, a questionnaire was distributed to 154
employees of which 143 were collected with a response rate of 93%. Correlation
analysis assessed the relationship between CRM and market share. Multiple Linear
Regression Model was designed to analyze the relationship between different factors of
CRM and market share. Multiple Linear Regression Model were conducted using SPSS
version 20 and hypothesis were tested. Thefindings confirm that CRM organization and
technology based CRM have positive and significant effect with market share where as
key customer focus and customer knowledge management doesn't have positive and
significant effect on market share. As a result the hypothesis developed for both key
customer focus and customer knowledge management have significant positive effect on
market share is rejected. The rejected hypothesis is out of the status quo. Therefore the
study was limited to this result.