The impact of packaging on product competition

• Main Authors: Maryam Masoumi, Naser Azad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2012-09-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Marketing; Packaging; Competition
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2012_255.pdf

The primary objective of this paper is to detect important factors, which are influencing competitive advantage. The proposed model of this paper uses sampling technique to measure characteristics of society. There are eight independent variables for the proposed study of this paper including packaging endurance, easy distribution, customer promotion through packaging, packaging structure, packaging as silent advertiser, diversity of packaging, clean and healthy packaging and innovation in packaging. The proposed study uses structural equation modeling to either accept or reject all hypotheses associated with the proposed study of this paper. The population of this study includes all managers and experts who are involved in packaging products. We used simple sampling technique and chooses 300 from a population of 450 people who are considered as the population of this survey. Cronbach alpha was determined as 0.732, which is above the minimum acceptable level. The results confirm that all mentioned factors influence competitiveness, effectively.