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A National Customer Satisfaction Barometer: The Swedish Experience

Fornell, Claes·1992·Journal of Marketing
DOI 10.2307/1252129
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Many individual companies and some industries monitor customer satisfaction on a continual basis, but Sweden is the first country to do so on a national level. The annual Customer Satisfaction Barometer (CSB) measures customer satisfaction in more than 30 industries and for more than 100 corporations. The new index is intended to be complementary to productivity measures. Whereas productivity basically reflects quantity of output, CSB measures quality of output (as experienced by the buyer). The author reports the results of a large-scale Swedish effort to measure quality of the total consumption process as customer satisfaction. The significance of customer satisfaction and its place within the overall strategy of the firm are discussed. An implication from examining the relationship between market share and customer satisfaction by a location model is that satisfaction should be lower in industries where supply is homogeneous and demand heterogeneous. Satisfaction should be higher when the heterogeneity/homogeneity of demand is matched by the supply. Empirical support is found for that proposition in monopolies as well as in competitive market structures. Likewise, industries in general are found to have a high level of customer satisfaction if they are highly dependent on satisfaction for repeat business. The opposite is found for industries in which companies have more captive markets. For Sweden, the 1991 results show a slight increase in CSB, which should have a positive effect on the general economic climate.

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Authors
Fornell, C.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Fornell, Claes
Venue
Journal of Marketing
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1992-01
Volume
56
Issue
1
Pages
6-21
ISSN
  • 0022-2429 (ISSN-L)
  • 1547-7185
DOI
10.2307/1252129
OpenAlex
W2070054856
Cited by
5,641
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 52 · 2025: 112 · 2024: 122 · 2023: 197 · 2022: 201 · 2021: 230 · 2020: 243 · 2019: 230 · 2018: 233 · 2017: 274 · 2016: 253 · 2015: 328 · 2014: 366 · 2013: 346 · 2012: 308
FWCI
36.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal of Marketing (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Service and Product Innovation
Keywords
customer satisfaction, productivity measurement, market share, demand heterogeneity, market structure, monopoly, captive market, repeat business, business strategy

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