Food and Consumer Attitude(s): An Overview of the Most Relevant Documents

Abstract

Food markets have, at least, two dimensions. One is related to supply, where food marketing, for example, plays a determinant role, namely to promote healthy and balanced consumption. The other dimension is associated with demand, where it is important to understand and bring insights about consumer attitudes, because they have implications on patterns of food consumption. In this framework, the main objective of this research is to suggest an alternative approach for conducting systematic reviews based on bibliometric analysis and implement it on topics about food and consumer attitudes. For this purpose, the most important bibliographic items (authors, sources, organizations, countries and documents) were identified and later the most relevant documents were reviewed. In addition, 908 documents were selected on 11 December 2020 from the Web of Science Core Collection, for the topics “food” and “consumer attitude*”, and analyzed through bibliometric analysis with the support of the VOSviewer and Gephi software. These documents were also benchmarked with those available in the Scopus scientific database. The approach presented here made it possible to highlight the main insights from the scientific literature related to consumer attitudes to food and bring about further contributions to a literature review supported by bibliometric analysis. This proposal may be known as MB2MBA2 (Methodology Based on Benchmarking of Metadata, from scientific databases, and Bibliometric Assessment and Analysis). This systematic review highlights that organic foods, food neophobia, climate change, marketing strategies and interrelationships between motivations–consumer attitudes–perceptions–purchase intentions–purchase decisions (MAPID) deserved special attention. In addition, MAPID interactions are impacted, among other dimensions, by labelling, branding and trust in the information provided. Future research should further address impacts on consumer attitudes towards food, such as those related to climate-smart agriculture, food 4.0, food security and protection, and climate change and malnutrition.

Bibliometric Analysis for Working Capital: Identifying Gaps, Co-Authorships and Insights from a Literature Survey

“…The benchmark among the WoS and Scopus reveals that there are not many differences in the metadata supplied by both databases for the topic "working capital" and in this case may be considered as an alternative for meta-analysis. This is in line with the findings of Martinho (2021) for other topics. This benchmark also highlights that interest from researchers for this topic has increased over recent decades and increased significantly over the last few years, following the trend verified by science in general.…”

“…Bibliometric analysis has been considered across many different fields of science, such as agriculture , forestry (Mourao and Martinho 2020), the environment (Martinho and Mourão 2020), energy (Martinho 2018), leading universities (Cancino et al 2017), academic innovation (Merigó et al 2016), the board of directors in certain organizations (Kent Baker et al 2020), and food consumption (Martinho 2021). These studies show that the identification of the topic(s) considered in order to select the documents from databases is often arbitrary.…”

“…Tables 1 and 2 were presented to complement the readability of Figures 7 and 8. In these tables only the top 15 items were presented as a compromise between avoiding presenting too much information and presenting sufficient data to support the analysis, following, for example, (Martinho 2021). When all keywords are considered, the results show that working capital management appears to be interrelated in literature with concepts such as the following: performance; profitability; management; investment; determinants; trade credit; firms; impact; liquidity; cash conversion cycle; model; policy; information; growth; risk; financial constraints; SMEs; firm performance; quality; demand; credit; constraints; finance; governance.…”

Theory of planned behavior in consumer behavior research: A systematic literature review

“…Food. Food products have received a great deal of attention from consumer behavior researchers in the past few decades (Martinho, 2021).…”

“…Food products have received a great deal of attention from consumer behavior researchers in the past few decades (Martinho, 2021). In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift toward research on the consumption of organic foods (Painuly & Pachaury, 2022; Singh et al, 2022).…”