On the value relevance of customer satisfaction. Multiple drivers and multiple markets
Tóm tắt
Existing research implicitly assumes that all factors known to influence customer satisfaction are likewise important for investor behavior. However, if investors do not equally value activities targeting different satisfaction drivers, managers focusing on short-term stock returns might over- or under-emphasize certain satisfaction drivers to the detriment of the long-term success of the firm. Therefore, we extend prior research on the value relevance of customer satisfaction by assessing the relationship between the dynamics of key satisfaction drivers and contemporaneous risk-adjusted stock returns. Moreover, we compare three major markets using a dataset covering nearly the entire set of car brands sold between 2004 and 2008. Our results show that investors react to information related to perceived product quality, whereas, surprisingly, the cost of ownership and dealer service quality are unimportant despite the importance attributed to them in consumer research. Furthermore, we observe that information concerning the U.S. market dominates that of the UK and German markets.
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