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American Customer Satisfaction (ACSI) Model<br />

Perceived<br />

Product Quality<br />

• Reliability<br />

• Customisation<br />

• Overall<br />

The ACSI Model<br />

Perceived<br />

Overall Quality<br />

• Overall (2)<br />

• Customisation (2)<br />

• Reliability (2)<br />

Customer<br />

Expectations<br />

• Overall<br />

• Customisation<br />

• Reliability<br />

Perceived<br />

Service Quality<br />

• Reliability<br />

• Customisation<br />

• Overall<br />

Perceived Value<br />

• Price Given Quality<br />

• Quality Given Price<br />

Customer Satisfaction<br />

(ACSI)<br />

Customer<br />

Complaints<br />

• Complaint Behaviour<br />

Customer<br />

Loyalty<br />

• Repurchase Likelihood<br />

• Price Tolerance<br />

(Reservation Price)<br />

The ACSI uses two interconnected methods to measure customer satisfaction namely, customer<br />

interviewing and structural equation modeling. Customer satisfaction in the ACSI model is embedded<br />

in a system of cause and effect relationships between variables: customer expectation, perceived overall<br />

quality (product quality & service quality), perceived value, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and<br />

customer complaints as shown in the figure above.<br />

The variables on the left side are the driver of satisfaction while outcomes of satisfaction is on the right.<br />

These outcomes are customer loyalty (a positive result) and customer complaints (a negative one). The<br />

arrows show the strength of the relationship between the indices and are called impacts. In the context<br />

of the ACSI model, an impact score refers to an increase or decrease in a particular index such as customer<br />

loyalty that results from an increase or decrease in some other factors affecting that index such as ACSI.<br />

Once data has been collected, researchers analysed the data using a structural equation model that<br />

provides both scores for the measured latent variable components and the relationships (“effects” or<br />

“impacts”) between these components. Most importantly, each measured company or organisation<br />

receives a customer satisfaction index score (an “ACSI score”) which is derived from a weighted average<br />

of three manifest variable survey questions.<br />

<strong>Productivity</strong> Report 2011/2012<br />

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