Amount of information and the willingness of consumers to pay for food traceability in China

Jin, Shaosheng; Zhang, Yan; Xu, Yining

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.02.012

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“…But this willingness to pay was affected by gender, education, and income. Jin, Zhang, and Xu, 2017 Chinese consumers were willing to pay a 10% premium for traceable pork that had a detailed information label.…”

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Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Almonds as a Healthy Snack

Xu¹,

Zhou²,

Konduru³

2019

IJBM

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This study uses 360 choice experiment data gathered in five large Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Kunming during the traditional Chinese holidays of spring 2016 to analyze respondents’ acceptance of almonds as a healthy snack food. The purchasing impact of Country of origin (COO), price, organic, brand, freshness, taste and consumer specific profile of education and their food expenses were examined. Mixed logit model was applied and the results show that: 1) there existed positive purchase attitudes toward the health featured almond snacks; 2) California imported almonds were preferred to the domestic Chinese almonds and the imported almonds were valued higher; 3) when purchase almonds, Chinese respondents were found to be unlikely price sensitive; and 4) their purchase decision was found to be unlikely affected by organic, crop freshness and the decision was made without the influence of respondents’ educational background.

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Section: Mann Et a 2012mentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Almonds as a Healthy Snack

Xu¹,

Zhou²,

Konduru³

2019

IJBM

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“…Lu et al [32] investigated consumer perceptions of food safety and found that consumers from different countries are willing to pay a premium for food that is traceable. Jin et al [33] showed that Chinese consumers are willing to pay for food traceability systems that provide safety certificates and detailed information about chemical pesticides used in food production. Since safety is another key element of consumer perceptions of food and linked to purchasing decisions [34], we specifically consider the demand promotion by food safety improvement.…”

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Economic Analysis of a Traceability System for a Two-Level Perishable Food Supply Chain

Zhu¹

2017

Sustainability

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Food waste stemmed from food contamination and ineffective quality control is a significant challenge to food management. Supply chain traceability has become an essential task of the food industry for guaranteeing food quality and safety and reducing food waste. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has emerged as a lead technology in the development of traceability systems, which enable automatically capturing of food information along the supply chain. However, the significant investment cost has been a major obstacle in the diffusion of traceability systems in the food industry. This study conducts a cost-benefit analysis of a RFID-enabled traceability system for a two-level perishable food supply chain, which consists of an upstream supplier and a downstream retailer. Consumer perceptions of food quality and safety are jointly considered when evaluating the value of a traceability system. The optimal decisions of the supply chain participants are derived in both centralized and decentralized systems, in terms of wholesale price, order quantity, price markdowns, and granularity level of the traceability system. The results show that a dynamic pricing policy supported by the traceability system could significantly reduce food waste and improve the retailer's performance. We further propose a two-part tariff contract to coordinate the supply chain and to distribute benefits and costs of the traceability system between supply chain participants. This study demonstrates that a well-developed traceability system could significantly improve the supply chain performance and become a profitable investment for the food industry.

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“…Many studies have examined the effect of different food product attributes on consumers' preferences, such as location of production (e.g., Hu, Batte, Woods, & Ernst, ; Hu, Cox, Wright, & Harris, ; Hu, Qing, Batte, Woods, & Ernst, ; Lim and Hu, ), country of origin label (e.g., Lim, Hu, Maynard, & Goddard, ; Wang, H. H., Zhang, Ortega, & Olynk Widmar, ), food traceability (e.g., Jin, Zhang, & Xu , ; Wu, Wang, Zhu, Hu, & Wang, ), genetically modified traits (e.g., Hu & Chen, ; Hu et al, ; Hu, Adamowicz, & Veeman, ; Rousu, Huffman, Shogren, & Tegene, ), food safety (e.g., Bar & Zheng, ; Ortega, Wang, Wu, & Olynk, ; Wang et al, ; Zare, Nemati, & Zheng, ), organic labeling (e.g., Chen, Saghaian, & Zheng, ; Meas, Hu, Batte, Woods, & Ernst, ), and quality perception (e.g., Gao, Li, Bai, & Fu, ; Hu, Woods, Bastin, ; Hu et al, ; Jin, Li, & Li, ; Wang, E. & Gao, ; Zhou & Hu, ). A few studies have investigated how changes in companies' ownership affect consumer attitudes in purchasing food products (Jin, Zhang, Zhang, & Palma, ; Zhang, Palma, Jin, Yuan, ).…”

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US consumer reactions to China's Shuanghui acquisition of Smithfield Foods and its neural basis

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The $4.7 billion acquisition of Smithfield Foods by China's Shuanghui International (now WH Group) marks the largest Chinese takeover of a US company in history. Using electroencephalography along with an incentive compatible willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation mechanism, our study provides neural based evidence that the Shuanghui-Smithfield acquisition lowered consumers' preference for the Smithfield brand, but increased it for the Chinese brand.Consumers' neural preference for American brands increased after learning about the acquisition, implying a positive spillover effect to US brands in the US market. We also find that, after learning that an item is a product of the United States, consumers' neural preference decreased although their willingness-to-pay increased, consistent with some empirical reports that many US consumers prefer to purchase cheaper products made abroad rather than products of the United States with higher prices. K E Y W O R D Sconsumer willingness-to-pay, cross-border acquisitions, EEG, meat product, neural preference

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Amount of information and the willingness of consumers to pay for food traceability in China

Cited by 122 publications

References 54 publications

Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Almonds as a Healthy Snack

Chinese Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Almonds as a Healthy Snack

Economic Analysis of a Traceability System for a Two-Level Perishable Food Supply Chain

US consumer reactions to China's Shuanghui acquisition of Smithfield Foods and its neural basis

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