ON THE BORDERLINE OF FOOD AND DRUG: Constructing Credibility and Markets for a Functional Food Product

Lehenkari, Janne

doi:10.1080/0950543032000150337

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“…Here, we significantly differ in our analysis fromLehenkari (2000Lehenkari ( , 2003, who argues that three temporally and geographically separated cycles can account for the emergence and maintenance of credibility. 28 Like everything that is engineered, without active and careful maintenance, credibility may become vulnerable.…”

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Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

Penders

Nelis

2011

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ArgumentWe expand upon the notion of the "credibility cycle" through a study of credibility engineering by the food industry. Research and development (R&D) as well as marketing contribute to the credibility of the food company Unilever and its claims. Innovation encompasses the development, marketing, and sales of products. These are directed towards three distinct audiences: scientific peers, regulators, and consumers. R&D uses scientific articles to create credit for itself amongst peers and regulators. These articles are used to support health claims on products. However, R&D, regulation, and marketing are not separate realms. A single strategy of credibility engineering connects health claims to a specific public through linking that public to a health issue and a food product.

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Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

Penders

Nelis

2011

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“…Similarly the food system required and in turn benefited from the core capability of pharmaceuticals in substantiating specific product health claims through clinical trials as well as their R&D infrastructure (Menrad, 2003;Brannback et al, 2002). The example of Benecol line of products is characteristic (Lehenkari, 2003). Thus the emergence of the functional food system came through this bidirectional capability transfer where each 'parent' system acted as the requisite outsider to the development of the functional food niche ( Van de Poel, 2000).…”

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System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

Papachristos

Sofianos

Adamides

2013

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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a b s t r a c tThis paper discusses contextual issues in sociotechnical systems and transitions under the Multi Level Perspective (MLP). It emphasises inter system interactions, for which a typology is developed drawing on a review and meta level analysis of published transition case studies. The typology is subsequently associated to the MLP transitions pathways. A novel transition pathway, is derived through this process, namely new system emergence, for systems that emerge from contributions of existing antecedent sociotechnical systems.

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“…Latour, 2005: 115, 128). In his study of margarine innovation in Finland and the USA, Lehenkari has presented a somewhat similar analysis in his study of negotiations during the development of Benecol margarine between actors outside and inside the innovation network (Lehenkari 2000(Lehenkari , 2003. However, as we will argue later on, the differences in approach between Lehenkari's and Penders' study are intricately connected to the arguments made.…”

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“…Since the relevance of a risky account might occur much later, the trails left in his wake also have to be documented. (Latour, 2005: 135) A study on a similar object, with a similar research question, has arrived at a different description of the practice of credibility engineering in food industry (Lehenkari 2003). The analysis of interviews and publically available literature is perfectly valid, yet constructs a different explanatory narrative than the interactive approach we have taken.…”

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Critique in action: assembling shared matters of concern with corporate R&D

Radstake¹,

Penders²

2019

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An ethnographic study in Unilever - a large multinational food company – performed an unintended intervention in the assessment of the value of basic science by the management of Unilever R&D. Using accounts by the ethnographer and by a corporate R&D manager, we describe how the ethnographer’s interest in good food design was connected to issues of R&D organization in an interactive research process. The particular setting required regular involvement of key actors in the set-up and design of the research process and in the assessment of its preliminary results. That invited a collaborative critical analysis of health claims on food products by the ethnographer and those who were part of the practices he studied. We use Bruno Latour’s notion of matters of concern and related understandings of critique from science and technology studies to describe intervention as an outcome rather than an intention of their analysis, and reflect on corporate research practices as a field that may invite critique, rather than oppose to it. We use the term ‘critique in action’ (CiA) to describe the interactive research process and discuss its potential for further deployment.

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ON THE BORDERLINE OF FOOD AND DRUG: Constructing Credibility and Markets for a Functional Food Product

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Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

Critique in action: assembling shared matters of concern with corporate R&D

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ON THE BORDERLINE OF FOOD AND DRUG: Constructing Credibility and Markets for a Functional Food Product

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Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

Credibility Engineering in the Food Industry: Linking Science, Regulation, and Marketing in a Corporate Context

System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

Critique in action: assembling shared matters of concern with corporate R&amp;D

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Critique in action: assembling shared matters of concern with corporate R&D