An empirical investigation on factors influencing on insurance issued by export guarantee funds

Azad, N.; Savadkouhi, R.

Abstract: This paper attempts to find important factors influencing on insurance issued by export guarantee funds. The study uses factor analysis to detect important factors based on a questionnaire in Likert scale. The study has determined four factors including risk management, customer oriented, quality management and trade management. The first factor is associated with risk management and it includes four sub-factors. The factors include being responsive, reliability, service quality and customer detection and reliability plays the most important factor. The second factor is associated with being customer oriented where the factor includes four components including cost recognition, access, marketing knowledge and the level of management training. The third factor is associated with quality management, which includes four variables including responsiveness, reliability, quality of services and customer recognition. Finally, the last factor is associated with trade management, which includes three variables including trade risk, insurance premium and currency.

How to cite this paper

 Azad, N & Savadkouhi, R. (2013). An empirical investigation on factors influencing on insurance issued by export guarantee funds.Management Science Letters , 3(7), 2101-2106.

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