Cause and effective relationship of variability of quality of goods and their grouping
Abstract
The relevance of the research topic is determined by the fact that grouping contributes to better knowledge of goods by market agents and insufficient knowledge of the problem of qualitative grouping. However, due attention is still not paid to the grouping of goods of variable quality, and the available incomplete information on the properties of goods is scattered across various sources that are inaccessible to many consumers.
The term “grouping of variable quality” has been introduced, defined as the division of a commodity set according to grouping characteristics into separate subgroups according to the characteristics of quality variability.
The reasons for the variability of the quality of goods, formed in the process of production and consumption, are revealed, which consist in the fact that, firstly, in the production process, goods are subject to deviations from the quality parameters of materials, semi-finished products, errors in manufacturing, assembly, control, which lead to a change in quality; secondly, the quality of the production factors themselves depend on the impact of the environment; thirdly, each individual consumer has his own estimated value of the quality of a product or a judgment about quality, which is the reason for the scatter in the estimated value of the quality of the market population of consumers.
A grouping of goods according to the following qualitative characteristics is proposed: use of goods by quality; the identity of the combination of the quality of goods; verifiability of the quality of goods; a set of quality characteristics; the interaction of the price of product quality and the wealth of consumers; time reference – dated goods, geographic area – spatial goods and interactions with the environment or the world – contingent goods; digital goods of software-variable quality.
About the Author
G. N. Ismagilova
Kazan(Volga region) Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor
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Ismagilova G.N. Cause and effective relationship of variability of quality of goods and their grouping. Kazan economic vestnik. 2021;(6):5-13. (In Russ.)
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