1. Defining Customer Satisfaction: A Strategic Company Asset? -- 2. Customer Expectations: What Do Your Customers Demand? -- 3. Perceived Quality: Does Performance Matter? -- 4. Perceived Value: Is It Really All About Price? -- 5. ACSI: Is Satisfaction Guaranteed? -- 6. Customer Complaints:...

Do investments in customer satisfaction lead to excess returns? If so, are these returns associated with higher stock market risk? The empirical evidence presented in this article suggests that the answer to the first question is yes, but equally remarkable, the answer to the second question is...

This paper studies the effect of aggregate IT investments on customer satisfaction and profits at the firm level. Using data on 109 U.S. firms for the 1994-1996 and 1999-2006 periods, we find that aggregate IT investments have a positive association with customer satisfaction. However, the...