Investigating the Relation between Standardization with Expansion of Exports in the Food Products of Hamedan Province

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between standardization and expanding the export of food products by using the research model in which the aspects and characteristics of standardization of expanding the export of food products with regard to six aspects were considered both in standardization  including quality, expert force, standardization culture, products safety and health, facilitation of legal permits, reduction of waste and in the field of expanding the export of food products  such as technology, government, competitive advantage, exporting motivators, company size, exporting commitment. Then, theorizing is done and using the descriptive and scaling research method and the data collection method, most important of which was through questionnaires, this research discusses the impact of the independent variance with the considered aspects on the dependent variance. The statistical population of this research includes all the quality control executives of the food production units of Hamedan province, CEOs of exporting production units, authorities of the Standard Office of Hamedan province, among whom 100 people were selected for the main study. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics including plentitude distribution, plentitude percentage, average, diagram and inferential statistics were used and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is done to analyze the normality variances and the Spearman coefficient is used to prove the hypotheses of the research in order to evaluate the relation between standardization and expanding the export of food products. The results from this research indicate that all the hypotheses are accepted and among the aspects of standardization, the quality aspect with the highest integrity coefficient in the amount of 0.644, has a relation with expanding the export of food products.