Companies are shifting from being product-centric to customer-centric, making
customers a part of the organization (Kandell, 2000). Thanks to the increasing impact of
social networking and Web 2.0 on business (Hogg et al., 2006), there has been a rise in
research studies by science and IT scholars covering this topic. Unfortunately, none of
these studies focuses on the behavioral aspect of social customers. Although extant
literature does provide helpful insight into the company’s point of view, researchers have
shown little concern about the potential gap between CRM activities and customer
attitudes toward those activities (Kim, Park, Dubinsky, & Chaiy, 2012).