scholarly journals Preferences towards the brand and origin of garlic (Allium sativum L.)

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-750
Author(s):  
Alma Velarde-Mendívil ◽  
Dena Camarena-Gómez ◽  
Lizbeth Salgado-Beltrán
Keyword(s):  
Positive Influence ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
National Brand ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Feasible Alternative ◽  
Regional Brand ◽  
Small Producers ◽  
Significant Production

Garlic is one of the best known and most widely consumed vegetables in the international field. Regarding its production, Asian countries are identified as the main producers at a global level. Mexico have a significant production of garlic, occupying the fourth place for its productive volume in Latin America and in some regions such as the municipality of Arizpe, Sonora has a productive vocation, contributing to the region's economy and family support. Hence, for a significant number of small producers, it is essential to remain competitive in the garlic market. As a positioning strategy, the creation of a regional brand emerges as a feasible alternative. That is why, and in order to know the preferences that consumers manifest towards Arizpe garlic, an experiment of choice was carried out, a methodology widely used in agri-food marketing studies, the NGene software was used for the analysis of data and in the Limdep software, a conditional logit model was estimated. The results show that the manufacturer's brand and regional origin exert a positive influence on consumers. It is noted that consumers would be willing to pay a premium if the products have the regional or national brand attribute. This information suggests the possibility that exists for small producers in the study region to position themselves in the market with a regional garlic brand.

scholarly journals Effect Of Liability Of Foreignness And Family Ownership On Cross-Listing Location Choice

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-222
Author(s):  
He Soung Ahn ◽  
Hyejin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Liability Of Foreignness ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Cross Listing ◽  
Foreign Countries

Firms incur liability of foreignness (LOF) when they expand their businesses to foreign countries. This study examines the applicability of LOF in the context of financing in a foreign capital market. Using an alternative-specific conditional logit model, we investigate the cross-listing decisions of firms from 28 countries that select among eight target destinations from 1994 to 2008. These firms target capital markets with lower LOF, which is measured by institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural distance. Such preference is particularly stronger for firms with higher levels of family ownership, suggesting family owners’ tendency to be averse to risk is also manifested in financing context.

scholarly journals Insights from the Sustainability Monitoring Tool SUMINISTRO Applied to a Case Study System of Prospective Wood-Based Industry Networks in Central Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3896
Author(s):  
Jakob Hildebrandt ◽  
Alberto Bezama ◽  
Daniela Thrän
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Central Germany ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Integrative Assessment

Bioeconomy regions are a young concept representing emerging amalgamation points for the implementation of cross-sectoral value-added chains. When sustainable bioeconomy strategies are rolled out, their proof-of-concept implies that industrial R&D activities should lead to impact decoupling and that the valorization of locally available lignocellulosic biomass has to contribute to an increase in added value. Furthermore, regional co-benefits for society and a positive influence on local environmental and socioeconomic conditions are major factors. The fulfillment of these strategic goals would be a milestone achievement when progressing from the blueprint development and the road-mapping stage towards socially accepted and sustainable wood-based bioeconomy strategies. For regional industrial and science stakeholders who run pilot facilities for process upscaling and for energy and material flow integration, this requires well-orchestrated integrative processes, which go beyond conventional “Life Cycle Management” approaches. It is obvious that assessing and monitoring such integrative systems will have to account for different stakeholder perspectives and for detailed technology deployment and resource conversion scenarios. Applying a sustainability index methodology in a case study region must include an evaluation of the whole supply chain and the process networks associated with the characteristic products of the evaluated region. To date, no such integrative assessment methods exist in the literature. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to lay out, on the basis of a practical example in the case study region of Central Germany, an assessment of the sustainability level of wood-based bioeconomy networks by applying the Sustainability Monitoring Tool -SUMINISTRO”- to examine regional bio-based industry networks.

scholarly journals Motives for foreign direct investment location in Europe and EU enlargement

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 1681-1699
Author(s):  
Jonathan Jones ◽  
Ilona Serwicka ◽  
Colin Wren
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Eu Enlargement ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
National Market ◽  
Eclectic Paradigm ◽  
Accession Process ◽  
Investment Location ◽  
The Eu

European Union (EU) enlargement of the mid-2000s is likely to have changed the motives for foreign direct investment (FDI) location between the existing Member States (the EU15) and the new entrants of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs), but it is poorly understood. This paper uses the framework of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm and data for 35,105 foreign investments in Europe not only to examine if the motives differ between these, but also how they are affected by the enlargement. Three asset-exploiting motives of market, resource and efficiency seeking are explored using a conditional logit model for the location choice. This is separately for greenfield and brownfield FDI, involving new facilities or jobs, where the latter is efficiency seeking from an expansion or a co-location of functions. The paper finds greenfield FDI in the CEECs seeks an export platform for the EU market and a low-skilled workforce but a national market and higher skills in the EU15. Brownfield FDI differs from this for expansions only, for which the EU market is important, reflecting scale economies. Surprisingly, EU enlargement has a much stronger effect on the FDI location motives in the EU15 by increasing the importance of the European market, which is possibly because the CEEC liberalisation was ongoing throughout the accession process. The paper finds evidence that the differences in the motives between the CEECs and EU15 are narrowing over time, but they are pronounced, and it is argued that they will persist.

A Heterogeneous Conditional Logit Model of Choice

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel H. Steckel ◽  
Wilfried R. Vanhonacker
Keyword(s):  
Logit Model ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Conditional Logit

Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay for rice

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Xu ◽  
Hang Su ◽  
Todd Lone
Keyword(s):  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Chinese Consumers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Organic Rice ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Rice Consumption ◽  
The Impact

Purpose China’s expanded rice imports offer a profitable business opportunity for both domestic and international grain marketers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of select variables on Chinese consumers’ rice choices, specifically focusing on country-of-origin, price, organic, brand, freshness, and taste. The study concludes with suggestions for domestic and international rice marketers to help them develop more efficient rice marketing plans. Design/methodology/approach This study developed a conditional logit model to analyze survey data gathered from Chongqing and Chengdu, two of China’s largest rice consumption cities. Findings Chinese consumers are price sensitive in their rice choices. Country-of-origin is the most imperative factor affecting rice selection for lower food expense consumers but branded rice attracts the attention of higher food expense consumers. Furthermore, these higher food expense consumers are willing to pay a small premium of $0.22 for a pound of organic rice. Research limitations/implications A general trend in demand for organic rice from higher food expense consumers was identified, and this trend predicts a profitable market for organic rice sellers. However, these research findings are geographically limited and may only represent a consumption trend from the two sampled cities rather than all of China. Originality/value The study concludes with meaningful recommendations to rice marketers to aid in developing profitable market entrance strategies to China.

scholarly journals FOREIGN INVESTORS AS SIGNPOSTS OF CHANGE?

Ekonomika ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Camilla Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Agglomeration Economies ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Specific Factors

The new market economies in Eastern Europe give a unique opportunity to study how agglomeration occurs due to the shift from a planner- constructed to a firm-driven economy. This paper it is investigated how foreign direct investment affects the existing economic geography. How are these changes taking place within the existing landscape of agglomerations inherited from socialism? Do foreign investors sustain existing patterns of agglomeration or are they signposts of change? A conditional logit model is implemented on a representative dataset combining the firm and regionallevel. Controls are made for region- and firm-specific factors such as market access, pre-existing industrial concentrations, regional policy and firm size. The results suggest that foreign investors are agents of both gradual and radical change in a new market economy such as Poland. With the exception of the capital region of Warsaw, past agglomerations are on the reverse and new ones are emerging; however, industrial inertia is quite strong outside Warsaw. Results also show that agglomeration economies in the make are significantly affected by cognitive distance. Foreign firms are more likely to go where other proximate peers (in terms of home country, industry and both) are going or have already gone.

scholarly journals The Value of Social Interactions and Incentives on the Use of a Digital Contact Tracing Tool Post COVID-19 Lockdown in Singapore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhilian Huang ◽  
Huiling Guo ◽  
Hannah YeeFen Lim ◽  
Kia Nam Ho ◽  
Evonne Tay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Trade Offs

Abstract BackgroundWe assessed the preferences and trade-offs for social interactions, incentives, and being traced by a digital contact tracing (DCT) tool post lockdown in Singapore.MethodsWe conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) among visitors of a large public hospital in Singapore between July 2020 – February 2021. Respondents were sampled proportionately by gender and four age categories (21 – 80 years). The DCE questionnaire had three attributes (1. Social interactions, 2. Being traced by a DCT tool, 3. Incentives to use a DCT tool) and two levels each. The final dataset comprised 3839 respondents after dropping 53 with “irrational” responses. Panel fixed conditional logit model was used to analyze the data.ResultsRespondents were more willing to trade being traced by a DCT tool for social interactions than incentives and unwilling to trade social interactions for incentives. The proportion of respondents preferring no incentives and could only be influenced by their family members increases with age. Among proponents of monetary incentives, the preferred median value for a month’s usage of DCT tools amounted to S$10 (USD7.25) and S$50 (USD36.20) for subsidies and lucky draw.ConclusionsDCE can be used to elicit profile-specific preferences to optimize the uptake of DCT tools during a pandemic. Social interactions are highly valued by the population, who are willing to trade them for being traced by a DCT tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although a small amount of incentive is sufficient to increase the satisfaction of using a DCT tool, incentives alone may not increase DCT tool uptake.

Exploratory Assessment of Consumer Preferences for Chestnut Attributes in Missouri

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco X. Aguilar ◽  
Mihaela M. Cernusca ◽  
Michael A. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Conditional Logit Model ◽  
Organic Certification ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
Product Profile ◽  
Market Premium

This article explores consumers' preferences for different chestnut (Castanea spp.) attributes and studies differences across potential market segments. The study was conducted between 2003 and 2007 during the Missouri Chestnut Roast festival. The festival, held annually in October during the chestnut harvest season, is one of mid-Missouri's premier family-oriented events. A longitudinal study completed among festival visitors in 2003, 2004, and 2006 to identify chestnut characteristics that influence purchasing decisions was complemented with a conjoint analysis in 2007. The conjoint analysis used a conditional logit model to investigate responses from pairwise product profile comparisons. The attributes investigated include chestnut size (small, medium, and large), price ($3, $5, and $7 per pound), production process (organic and conventional), and origin (Missouri, United States, and imported). Results suggest a strong preference for locally and U.S.-grown compared with imported chestnuts. Local growers that provide the market with medium-size chestnuts that carry organic certification could command a market premium compared with imported/nonorganic certified chestnuts.

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