Competitive Product Advantages

Angela Eliza Micu () and Adrian Micu ()
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Angela Eliza Micu: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania
Adrian Micu: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2006, issue 1, 67-70

Abstract: Cost advantages may be either internal or external. Internal economics of scope, scale, or experience, and external economies of focus or logistical inte¬gration, enable a company to produce some products at a lower cost than the competition. The coordination of pricing with suppliers, although not actually economizing resources, can improve the efficiency of pricing by avoiding the incrementalization of a supplier's nonincremental fixed costs and profit. Any of these strategies can generate cost advantages that are, at least in the short run, sustainable. Even cost advantages that are not sustainable, however, can generate temporary savings that are often the key to building more sustainable cost or product advantages later. Even when a product's physical attributes are not readily differentiable, opportunities to develop product advantages remain. The augmented product that customers buy is more than the particular product or service exchanged. It includes all sorts of ancillary services and intangible relationships that make buying the same product from one company less difficult, less risky, or more pleasant than buying from a competitor. Superior augmentation of the same basic product can add substantial value in the eyes of consumers, leading them to pay willingly what are often considerable price premiums.

Keywords: decision; investments; cost. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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