Chinese Consumers' Demand for Food Safety Attributes: A Push for Government and Industry Regulations

Ortega, David L.; Wang, H. Holly; Olynk, Nicole J.; Wu, Laping; Bai, Junfei

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“…Choice experiments are widely used in food marketing as well as environmental economics studies to elicit respondents' preferences and WTP for goods [13,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. This study applies choice experiments to investigate consumers' preferences for rice.…”

Section: Methodology: Choice Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Consumer Choices and Motives for Eco-Labeled Products in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Choice Experiment

2017

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Based on choice experiments conducted via face-to-face interviews with 435 participants in four provincial areas of China (Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong), Chinese consumers' preferences and motives for purchasing eco-labeled rice are examined in this study. The heterogeneous effects of each motivating channel are also investigated. The results reveal positive correlations between premiums for eco-labeled rice and consumers' concerns about food safety and the environment, suggesting that health benefits and environmental considerations are the two critical motivations. The willingness to pay for eco-labeled rice does not increase with consumers' knowledge of the different production standards indicated by each eco-label. Individual characteristics that determine each class are further explored through a seemingly irrelevant regression to identify the target group of consumers for policy-makers.

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Section: Methodology: Choice Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We first described rice with a combination of four attributes: brand, eco-labels, geographical origin and price [13,29,31]. Attributes, such as taste, were excluded because consumers were not available prior to consumption.…”

Section: Survey Design and Data Descriptionmentioning

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Consumer Choices and Motives for Eco-Labeled Products in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Choice Experiment

2017

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“…With the legacy of a planned economy, government intervention in China is mainly exemplified by industry regulation (Ortega et al 2011). For example, the government controls licenses and permits for access to critical industries including finance, energy, utilities, transportation, and certain heavy industries in the name of national interest (Eaton 2013).…”

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Do Political Connections Buffer Firms from or Bind Firms to the Government? A Study of Corporate Charitable Donations of Chinese Firms

Zhang

Marquis

Qiao

2016

Organization Science

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D o political connections buffer firms from or bind firms to the government? To examine this theoretical puzzle, we distinguish two types of managerial political connections, ascribed and achieved, and theorize that these different types of ties either buffer firms from or bind firms to government demands. Furthermore, we propose that these effects are contingent on both industrial and regional institutional conditions. We test our framework with a unique panel data set of privately controlled listed firms' charitable donations in China from 2001 to 2012. We find that firms whose executives have ascribed bureaucratic connections are more likely to use their connections as a buffer from governmental donation pressure, particularly in competitive industries and less market-oriented regions, whereas in state-monopolized industries this buffering effect is reduced. In contrast, achieved political connections are more likely to serve a binding function that facilitates donation, particularly in state-monopolized industries and more market-oriented regions, but in less marketoriented regions, they buffer firms from the pressure to donate. Our research contributes to the literatures on the effects of political connections, the institutional contingencies of political connections, and the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate political activities (CPA).Keywords: political connections; corporate charitable donation; resource dependence; institutional environment History: Published online in Articles in Advance September 29, 2016. IntroductionAs institutional linkages that span firms and governmental authorities, firms' political connections are a key component of corporate political strategy in both developed and emerging economies (Hillman 2005, Hillman et al. 1999, Peng and Luo 2000. However, the effects of political connections on firm behavior and outcomes are not clear (Sun et al. 2012). Many studies focus on the benefits from such linkages and indicate that political connections have a "buffering" effect; that is, they provide a buffer for the organization from competitive and regulatory forces via access to information, influence, and legitimacy (Hillman 2005, Hillman et al. 1999, Lester et al. 2008, Peng and Luo 2000. Research has shown that firms can employ their political capital to shield themselves from unwanted political interference, unfavorable regulations, and/or various forms of government rent expropriation (Mellahi et al. 2016). Even in the United States, political connections have been shown to help firms when they deal with regulators (Correia 2014, Yu andYu 2011). In emerging markets, such a buffering effect is seen as an effective mechanism to protect firms from government rent-seeking behavior (Chen et al. 2011, Dieleman andBoddewyn 2012).In contrast, other studies consider these connections from the perspective of the government and emphasize the necessary costs of such linkages for the firm. From this perspective, political connections have a "binding" effect, ...

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“…These issues persist despite evidence that Chinese consumers would be willing to pay more for safer food. Ortega, Wang, Olynk, Wu, and Bai (2012) found that pork consumers were willing to pay an additional 3.5 RMB for 250 mL of milk if it were certified "safe" by the government. Similarly, Zhang, Bai, and Wahl (2012) found positive willingness to pay for government certification in China for pork, milk and cooking oil.…”

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Regional patterns of food safety in China: What can we learn from media data?

Holtkamp¹,

Liu²,

McGuire³

2014

China Economic Review

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Chinese Consumers' Demand for Food Safety Attributes: A Push for Government and Industry Regulations

Cited by 123 publications

References 16 publications

Consumer Choices and Motives for Eco-Labeled Products in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Choice Experiment

Consumer Choices and Motives for Eco-Labeled Products in China: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Choice Experiment

Do Political Connections Buffer Firms from or Bind Firms to the Government? A Study of Corporate Charitable Donations of Chinese Firms

Regional patterns of food safety in China: What can we learn from media data?

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