“…By combining traditional CRM with social media, social CRM offers the opportunity to strengthen customer relationships, reduce costs, and develop new customer segments (Woodcock, Green and Starkey, 2011). Although initial research on social CRM can be found (see, for example, Alt & Reinhold, 2012), results have, thus far, rarely been published in leading IS journals and conference proceedings. Besides open questions regarding data protection, analyses based on data obtained from OSN are confronted with several validity issues (Alt & Reinhold, 2012).…”