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Determining Attribute Importance In A Service Satisfaction Model, Anders Gustafsson, Michael D. Johnson
Determining Attribute Importance In A Service Satisfaction Model, Anders Gustafsson, Michael D. Johnson
Michael D. Johnson
Determining the importance that customers place on the product and service attributes that drive their satisfaction with, and loyalty to, service providers is an essential part of a firm’s resource allocation process. An unsettled issue is whether importance measures should come directly from customers or be derived statistically and, if so, how. The authors compare direct importance ratings with a variety of methods for statistically deriving attribute importance in a customer satisfaction model. Using three data sets, the methods are compared on criteria that include their ability to explain variation in satisfaction, to identify customers’ more important attributes, and to …