COVID-19, Food Safety, and Consumer Preferences: Changing Trends and the Way Forward

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Srinivasan Krishnamoorthy ◽  
J.A. Moses ◽  
C. Anandharamakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
The Way

Sustainable Purchase Behavior Through Religious Orientation, Psychological Contract & Intention-evidence From Pakistani Retail Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Numair Sulehri ◽  
Imran Dar ◽  
Sajjad Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purchase patterns have been shifted from tangibles to societal orientations, where religious orientation is the way forward for sustainable purchase behavior in expanding urban areas of a middle-income country. The ethical and responsiveness considerations through the connection between Islamic religious orientation (IsRO), purchase intention (PI), and total psychological contract (TPsC) is a research gap projected to be filled from multiple dimensions. Captivating the purchase intention and total psychological contract as mediating variables and analytical approach for religious orientation on purchase behavior constructed in the present research. The empirical assessment was executed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach based on the cross-sectional research design. There were 669 participants selected from large superstores, with ages ranging from 16 to 55 (M=3.38, SD=1.06), from Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, from September 2018 to March 2019. The findings revealed that religious orientation level positively enhanced customer purchase behavior, purchase intention and psychological contract in organized retail stores and psychological contract played a mediating role in the influencing on the purchase behavior; whereas, the purchase intention also played a mediating role between religious orientation and customer purchase behavior. Therefore, the religious orientation stimulated a higher level of purchase behavior since it favored of the higher level of psychological contract and purchase intention in organized retail store customer. The study highlighted the value of cognitive and moral processes and psychological needs could be one of the crucial factors for improvement of perceptual change in terms of purchase behavior of retail consumers that connect psychological dimension with suitability indicators of being responsiveness and ethical consideration sourced from religious orientation. The implications pave the way forward for product development, purchase strategies, and retail market sensing for corporate retail chains and government utility stores for ethical business processes. Meanwhile, the government and enterprises need to strengthen the popularization and dissemination of environmental protection and food safety knowledge to enhance consumers’ environmental and food safety awareness, improving the social environment of the cultivation of the organic food market.

Redefining the Information Technology in the 21st Century

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Ruben Xing ◽  
Zhongxian Wang ◽  
Richard L. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Green It ◽  
Changing Trends ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The Way

As one of the most influential and beneficial developments today, Information Technology (IT) is quickly transforming business infrastructures and reshaping the way how people are affected in context to how they work and live. In order to meet the fast and changing trends in the 21st century, Information Technology should be redefined in five major areas, i.e., Power of Computing, Internet-working and Telecommunications, New Features with Emerging Trends, Security and Disaster Recovery, and Green IT.

Consumer Preferences for Cigarettes in Sudan-A Conjoint Analysis Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Elfadil Timan Idriss
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
The Way

<p>Understanding Consumer’s preferences on attributes of cigarettes market is the first step to successful marketing strategies. The goal of this article is to explore the preferences of the smokers and to determine the way consumers perceive the importance of cigarettes attributes using conjoint analysis. Research was conducted on a sample of 416 users of cigarettes in Sudan and data were collected using a structured questionnaire. By implementing conjoint analysis, the current study investigates how consumers do tradeoff between preferences of number of attributes and the importance they attached to each of these cigarettes' attributes. The four attributes that are dealt within this study are the social status, availability, quality and price of cigarettes. Though the preferences of the various consumers vary, the results show that while price, quality and availability are important attributes, the social status is the most preferred attribute in the cigarettes industry in Sudan. The findings of the current study provide essential implications for marketers in developing future marketing strategies and for investment in this sector.<strong></strong></p>

The Meat and Poultry Hotline: Changing Trends in Food Safety

1996 ◽  
Vol 96 (9) ◽  
pp. A43 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.F. Wenberg ◽  
L.K. Bowers ◽  
B. O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Changing Trends

Aflatoxins and Health Considerations in Consumer Food Choices in Ghana

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Agyekum ◽  
Curtis M. Jolly ◽  
Henry Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Food Contaminants ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Contingent Valuation Survey ◽  
Survey Results

Abstract Food safety enjoys sustained attention among the scientific community, policymakers, and the general public due to health impacts. However, pursuing appropriate regulations for pervasive food contaminants is a challenging policy issue, particularly for naturally-occurring food toxins such as aflatoxins and other mycotoxins. This paper explores consumer preferences for quality aflatoxin-free peanuts, and how food safety concerns may impact willingness to pay more for safer foods. Incorporating ‘risky’ foods into random utility-maximization framework, we analyze contingent valuation survey data on Ghana. Model and survey results show consumers in Ghana approve of food aflatoxin regulations, and are prepared to pay price premiums as incentives to ensure supply of quality peanuts. Findings reveal that consumers prioritize food safety above prices in market decisions. People prefer introduction of aflatoxin regulations that would guarantee good health; useful information for policy makers in Ghana, Africa, and rest of the developing world.

scholarly journals State-Branded Programs and Consumer Preference for Locally Grown Produce

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Nganje ◽  
Renée Shaw Hughner ◽  
Nicholas E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Consumer Value ◽  
Locally Grown ◽  
Full Factorial ◽  
Different Levels

Revitalization of state brands is deemed important to several constituencies. Stated preference with choice experiment methods were used to elicit consumer preferences for two locally grown products: spinach, which has had a well-publicized food safety incidence, and carrots, which have had no such incidence in recent history. A full factorial design was used to implement the choice experiment, with each commodity having four identical attributes varying at different levels. Findings reveal that consumers are willing to pay a premium for locally grown spinach marked with the Arizona Grown label over locally grown spinach that was not labeled. This premium was higher than the premium that would be paid for state-branded carrots. This difference highlights consumers’ perceptions of “locally grown” as an indicator of safety in their food supply. Findings have important implications with respect to providing consumer value and point to differentiated positioning strategies for state-branded produce.

scholarly journals Reputation Management in Societal Security: A Comparative Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Christensen ◽  
Martin Lodge
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
National Security ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Cross National ◽  
The Way

Societal security poses fundamental challenges for the doctrines of accountability and transparency in government. At least some of the national security state’s effectiveness requires a degree of non-transparency, raising questions about legitimacy. This article explores in cross-national and cross-sectoral perspective, how organizations seek to manage their reputation by accounting for their activities. This article contributes in three main ways. First, it highlights how distinct tasks facilitate and constrain certain reputation management strategies. Second, it suggests that these reputational considerations shape the way in which organizations can give account. Third, it considers three domains associated with societal security, namely intelligence, flood defense, and food safety, in five European countries with different state traditions—the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. By using a “web census,” this article investigates cross-sectoral and cross-national variation in the way organizations seek to account for their activities and manage their reputation. This article finds variation across tasks to be more dominant than national variation.

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