Eco-innovative food in Brazil: perceptions from producers and consumers

Bossle, Marília Bonzanini; Barcellos, Márcia Dutra de; Vieira, Luciana Marques

doi:10.1186/s40100-014-0027-9

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“…The cited study analyzed green city declarations' effects on restaurants' sustainability practices, finding that government rules and green city policies do not significantly improve these companies' sustainability strategies. Similar results were also reported by Bossle, de Barcellos and Vieira [6] for the Brazilian food industry.…”

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“…Various researchers have found that government rules and green city declarations do not significantly strengthen sustainability practices in the restaurant industry [8]. Concurrently, national and regional regulations and policies' positive effects on restaurants' sustainability have not been confirmed [6]. The present study is thus the first empirical research to confirm that restaurant corporations' reputations improve in healthy and sustainable environments, specifically for countries ranked among the healthiest worldwide.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Restaurants consequently seek to strengthen their reputation by publicizing their sustainable practices [5]. Previous studies' findings indicate that these establishments can improve clients' perceptions of their sustainable practices by actively seeking to protect customers' health and the environment [5], engaging in eco-innovation [6] and communicating this clearly on social networks [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Countries’ Health and Environmental Conditions on Restaurant Reputation

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Corporate reputation enhancement in the restaurant industry has recently been increasingly driven by the central importance of consumer review websites and customers’ greater awareness of sustainable practices regarding health and the environment. In this context, the research question of the present study was if there is a relationship between health and environmental conditions, and restaurants’ corporate reputation on a country level. Trying to answer this question, the present study sought to analyze the effects of countries’ health and environmental conditions on their restaurants’ corporate reputation, thereby contributing to the existing knowledge about how sustainable environments influence the industry’s competitiveness. The research design included different methodological approaches, and was divided into three main phases: restaurant corporation identification, reputation database design, and results. To this end, reputation data from a consumer review website were gathered for a sample of restaurant corporations and establishments connected to the European countries on the Healthiest Country Index.The methods were based on regression analysis. The results indicate that restaurant reputation improves in healthy, sustainable environments, specifically in countries ranked as the healthiest. These findings provide a better understanding of how aspects related to health and environmental sustainability influence corporate reputation.

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“…The PVQ is composed of 21 items discriminated by gender (Schwartz 1992). Each of the items describes different types of individuals, and the participants must rate their degree of similarity with each item on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (very similar to me) to 6 (very different from me) (Bossle, de Barcellos, and Vieira 2015;Schwartz 1992;Schwartz et al 2001). Hence, in accordance with the procedure suggested by Schwartz, the ten Schwartz values were generated by averaging the 21 items in pairs; however, universalism was captured by three elements (Schwartz 1992;Schwartz et al 2001).…”

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Consumer's Side of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Nonhypothetical Study

Lerro¹,

Caracciolo²,

Vecchio³

et al. 2018

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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In recent decades, consumer trust in the food sector has declined because of several scandals that have affected the agro‐food industry. To recover their business reputation and trust, agro‐food companies are increasingly implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their production processes. CSR involves the whole supply chain, and several studies on CSR in the agro‐food industry have investigated consumer preferences regarding social responsibility either as a whole or in a small number of dimensions. This study, which is based on a sample of 204 Italian university students, measures consumer preferences and the willingness to pay (WTP) for eight dimensions of CSR. The respondents' WTP was evaluated in a nonhypothetical setting by using the incentive‐compatible Becker–DeGroot–Marschak method. Individual human values were also detected to investigate the determinants influencing the participants' WTP. The results revealed a positive effect of social responsibility on the participants' WTP, with personal values playing a central role.

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“…Although this is a good thing for Brazilian population, this raise in consumption increases resource consumption, what can have some consequences for the environment. In addition, there is a gap between attitudes and actual behavior, mainly for environmental issues (DE BARCELLOS et al, 2011), and also particularly for the case of consumers from the city of Porto Alegre (BOSSLE et al, 2015;DE BARCELLOS et al, 2015).…”

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CONCERNING OR ACTING? THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE IN SUSTAINABLE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF PORTO ALEGRE’S CITIZEN DOI - 10.5752/P.1984-6606.2015v15n40p57

Bossle

Nascimento²,

Figueiró³

et al. 2015

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between attitudes and environmental behavior among residents in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil, using a Survey that was applied with 1200 citizens. We analyzed the descriptive statistics and conducted an ANOVA to test the effects of demographic factors in a series of variables. The gap between "attitude" and "behavior" was confirmed. The willingness to pay a premium for products with environmental appeal, although present in all levels, is higher for people from higher income and educational backgrounds and is higher for cosmetics than for natural foods. Respondents consider environmental criteria at purchase and they know how to dispose of products. Consumers lack of a systemic view of the production and consumption chain. Although our findings have practical (to improve concern in the population) and academic (to compare with similar studies) implications, results cannot be generalized, because they are specifically related to a single city. The results will be valuable in guiding business strategies, public policy and further research. Consumers realize the importance of sustainable issues but they need further knowledge to put their awareness into practice. This paper jointly analyzes awareness, behavior, the importance of the environmental appeal of products and environmental problems. People tend to answer positively, but they fail to act accordingly.

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Eco-innovative food in Brazil: perceptions from producers and consumers

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

The Effect of Countries’ Health and Environmental Conditions on Restaurant Reputation

The Effect of Countries’ Health and Environmental Conditions on Restaurant Reputation

Consumer's Side of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Nonhypothetical Study

CONCERNING OR ACTING? THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE IN SUSTAINABLE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF PORTO ALEGRE’S CITIZEN DOI - 10.5752/P.1984-6606.2015v15n40p57

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