Measuring customer satisfaction: A literature review

Abstract

Customer satisfaction (CS) has attracted serious research attention in the recent past. This paper reviews the research on how to measure the level of CS, and classify research articles according to their approaches and methodologies. This paper also tries to supply some insights about the state of measuring CS in Vietnam. The main objective is to provide a conceptual basic to understand existing methodologies used for measuring CS. A total of 103 articles from more than 50 journals and international conferences are reviewed. A number of important methodologies used for measuring CS are defined and classified into two different approaches based on their nature. Another important contribution of this study is to suggest some criteria which should be considered to make CS measurement as a leading indicator of the financial performance. This paper can be helpful for managers to gain basic conceptual ideas of the methodologies used for measuring CS and also the criteria which make CS measurements more likely as a driver of financial performance when they are satisfied.