About the Book
A compilation of the established knowledge in strategic account management
While companies and academics expend tremendous effort on mass marketing, they often overlook their immediate customers (which are critical in both senses) and hence the importance of strategic account management (SAM). This handbook is a compilation of papers that present researched knowledge of SAM across the academic community which fills a void in the existing academic literature. Handbook of Strategic Account Management identifies drivers of the SAM approach, key issues and success factors, operational needs and areas still awaiting exploration. Each paper includes an overall referenced summary of the tenets of SAM relevant to the area it reports, and together with the combined list of references, it creates an indispensable resource for academic readers, students, and researchers.
Handbook of Strategic Account Management is written by over 40 knowledgeable experts with substantial experience of SAM from teaching, researching, writing and advising companies on why and how it works, spread widely across Europe and the US. It represents the balanced, researched body of knowledge in SAM and will be an invaluable resource to anyone exploring the approach, whether for a student thesis, for original research or for answers on how to approach SAM as a company initiative.
"Today’s strategic, key and global account management professionals owe thanks to a small community of academic researchers who, over the past three decades have been pioneers in identifying, cataloguing and analyzing the selling and business management practices of an emerging profession we now call strategic account management. This Handbook is an important milestone to mark SAM’s still evolving impact on corporate business strategies and its ever-increasing relevance as a proven engine for growth in business-to-business strategic customer relationships."
Bernard Quancard,President & CEO of SAMA (US-based Strategic Account Management Association with over 3,000 members worldwide)
Yana Atanasova Bjorn Ivens Toni Mikkola Ivan Snehota
Audrey Bink Ove Jensen Stefanos Mouzas Kaj Storbacka
Per-Olof Brehmer Robert Krapfel Peter Naudé Olavi Uusitalo
Noel Capon Antonella La Rocca Jukka Ojasalo Tom Vanderbiesen
Simon Croom Sylvie Lacoste Catherine Pardo Stefan Wengler
Osman Gök Nikala Lane Nigel Piercy Kevin Wilson
Paolo Guenzi Régis Lemmens Michael Pusateri Diana Woodburn
Stephan Henneburg Tommi Mahlamäki Jakob Rehme John Workman
Sue Holt Malcolm McDonald Sanjiy Sengupta George Yip
Christian Homburg Florin Mihoc Christoph Senn Judy Zolkiewski
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii
The editors ix
About this book xi
Key strategic account management: where are we now? 1
Editors Woodburn and Wilson
Section 1: Strategic dimensions of KSAM 35
Making the case for managing strategic accounts 37
Capon and Mihoc
Drivers for key account management programmes 53
Brehmer and Rehme
KSAM as an organizational change: making the transition 77
Woodburn
Switching costs in key account relationships 103
Sengupta, Krapfel and Pusateri
The strategic buyer: how emerging procurement strategies may support KAM/SAM relationships 115
Croom
Social and ethical concerns in strategic account management: emerging opportunities and new threats 141
Piercy and Lane
Section 2: Value creation through KSAM 169
Value in strategic account management 171
La Rocca and Snehota
Value dimensions and relationship postures in dyadic ‘key relationship programmes’ 191
Henneberg, Pardo, Mouzas and Naudé
‘Vertical coopetition’: the key account perspective 205
Lacoste
Key account management in business markets: an empirical test of common assumptions 227
Ivens and Pardo
Strategic account plans: their crucial role in strategic account management 245
McDonald and Woodburn
Using customer profitability and customer lifetime value to manage strategic accounts 267
Lemmens and Vanderbiesen
Section 3: Developing KSAM programmes 287
A configurational approach to strategic account management effectiveness 289
Homburg, Workman and Jensen
The appropriateness of the key account management organization 317
Wengler
Organizational structures in global account management 337
Yip and Bink
Strategic account management programmes: alignment of design elements and management practices 355
Storbacka
Global customer team design: dimensions, determinants and performance outcomes 379
Atanasova and Senn
Key accountization at Bosch Automotive Aftermarket Italy: managing and implementing a strategic change 405
Guenzi
Section 4: Operationalizing KSAM 419
Recent developments in relationship portfolios: a review of current knowledge 421
Zolkiewski
Account portfolio management: optimizing the customer portfolio of the firm 441
Gök
Strategic account management processes at corporate, relationship and annual level 461
Ojasalo
Developing strategic key account relationships in business-to-business markets 495
Wilson
The role of the key/strategic account manager 515
Wilson and Holt
The influence of personality on the job performance of strategic account managers 539
Mahlamäki, Uusitalo and Mikkola
References 555
Author profiles 605
Index 615
About the Author :
Diana Woodburn researches, writes, teaches and consults in Key/Strategic Account Management. She started exploring the subject in 1997, and in 1998 she set up Cranfield’s KAM Best Practice Club with Professor Malcolm McDonald, with whom she wrote Key Account Management: The Definitive Guide (3rd edition 2011). She has taught thousands of key account managers and directors about KSAM and developed much of the teaching material used in the subject. Her prior career in marketing covered a wide range of sectors and continents.
Kevin Wilson is a Professor of Marketing at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux where he holds the Chair of Selling and Client Relationships. He is a researcher, writer and presenter of over twenty years standing in the field of strategic account management, a past board member of the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) and a founder of the Sales Research Trust. He has published over 70 academic and practitioner articles and two books on the subject, Harnessing Global Potential for SAMA (2000) and Successful Global Account Management Wiley, (2002).
Contributors: Yana Atanasova, Audrey Bink, Per-Olof Brehmer, Noel Capon, Simon Croom, Osman Gök, Paulo Guenzi, Stephen Henneburg, Sue Holt, Christian Homburg, Björn Ivens, Ove Jensen, Robert Krapfel, Antonella La Rocca, Sylvie Lacoste, Nikala Lane, Régis Lemmens, Tommi Mahlamaki, Malcolm McDonald, Florin Mihoc, Toni Mikkola, Stefanos Mouzas, Peter Naudç, Jukka Ojasalo, Catherine Pardo, Nigel Piercy, Michael Pusateri, Jakob Rehme, Sanjit Sengupta, Christoph Senn, Ivan Snehota, Kaj Storbacka, Olavi Uusitalo, Tom Vanderbiesen, Stefan Wengler, Kevin Wilson, Diana Woodburn, John Workman, George Yip, Judy Zolkwieski
