The TPB and the TAM have been empirically tested in numerous domains and
areas of IT. However, they have not been tested on social customers participating in
social CRM. The findings of this research study will lay a solid theoretical foundation for
future research on the key influential factors for social customers’ behavior in the context
of social CRM. This study extends the TPB and the TAM by adding constructs to
determine factors that influence social customers’ behavior. Therefore, this study also
examines the robustness of these two existing models in predicting social customers’
participation in social CRM. Marketing researchers will be able to use this empirically
tested comprehensive model to study social customers’ behavior in other domains or
customer segments.