An exploration study to find important factors influencing on brand in car accessory market

Abstract: Supplying car accessory is one of the most important growing industries in the world. Every year, millions of cars are produced and people need to have the access to necessary car accessory. In this paper, we present an exploration study to detect important factors influencing car accessory market. The proposed study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale consists of 16 questions, distributes it among 200 experts and analyses it using factor analysis. Cronbach alpha and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy are calculated as 0.823 and 0.863, which validate the overall questionnaire. The results indicate that there are three influencing factors including brand capability, brand characteristics and consumers’ believe.

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 Azad, N., Aliakbar, S., Tavassoli, M & Zadeh, M. (2013). An exploration study to find important factors influencing on brand in car accessory market.Management Science Letters , 3(8), 2361-2366.

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