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Customer behavior and adoption · Empirical longitudinal case study of technology adoption and process transformation.

Dynamics of marketing automation adoption for organisational marketing process transformation: the case of Microsoft

M. Järvinen, H. Taiminen (2020). Dynamics of marketing automation adoption for organisational marketing process transformation: the case of Microsoft. International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijecrm.2020.110039

International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management · 2020DOI: 10.1504/ijecrm.2020.110039 ↗

Plain-English take

Automation adoption was iterative and depended on process redesign, data integration, and organizational coordination rather than software installation alone.

How much weight to give this

2/5 Observational or survey evidence; interpret as association

The 1–5 evidence-check score is a practical reading aid, not a formal peer review or a probability that a conclusion is true. It combines design strength (2 points), sample reporting (1), comparison/control clarity (1), and how much of the paper could be checked (1). Access affects how confidently this directory can assess a study, not the study's underlying quality. Blinding is reported separately because it is not relevant to every design.

Design · 1/2

Empirical longitudinal case study of technology adoption and process transformation.

Sample · 0.5/1

Microsoft organizational marketing processes and marketing-automation implementation.

Comparison · 0.5/1

Comparison details need confirmation in the full paper.

Can we check it? · 0/1

Only the publisher page was checked; full-text methods are not established.

Double-blind? Blinding was not established from the publisher page; this is not evidence that blinding was or was not used.

Research question

What the authors investigated

Dynamics of marketing automation adoption for organisational marketing process transformation: the case of Microsoft?

Design

Empirical longitudinal case study of technology adoption and process transformation.

Sample and setting

Microsoft organizational marketing processes and marketing-automation implementation.

Reported result

What the study found

Automation adoption was iterative and depended on process redesign, data integration, and organizational coordination rather than software installation alone.

This is a paraphrase of the source. Check the original paper for definitions, estimates, statistical uncertainty and analysis details.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

Single-case evidence and qualitative process data limit statistical generalization and independent causal attribution. The accessible publisher page was used for this listing; correction history was not independently checked.

Possible founder application

Use as a bounded example of dynamics of marketing automation adoption for organisational marketing process transformation: the case of microsoft; compare its context and design with your own market before applying its result.

Evidence access

Publisher article page; full-text availability varies and was not established in this review.

Crossref DOI record identifies a peer-reviewed empirical study of marketing-automation adoption in an organizational case. Publisher page was directly retrieved; detailed full-text methods were not independently verified.

If only an abstract or metadata was available, the profile is limited to claims supported there. A paper's paywall does not change its evidentiary status, but it limits what we can substantiate from accessible text.

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