History
The ACSI was started in 1994 by researchers at the National Quality Research Center, a research unit within the University of Michigan, in cooperation with partners at the American Society for Quality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and CFI Group in Ann Arbor. The ACSI was based on a model originally implemented in 1989 for the Swedish economy called the Swedish Customer Satisfaction Barometer (SCSB). Both the Swedish version and the ACSI were developed by Claes Fornell, now Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and chairman of CFI Group. In 2009, the ACSI left the University of Michigan to form a private company, although Fornell remains a professor at the university and the principal researcher behind the ACSI.
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