Micro-Macro Linking Using System Dynamics Modeling: An Examination of Eco-Labeling Effects for Farmed Shrimp

Cornwell, T. Bettina

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“…Price premiums for ecocertifed shrimp produced under a tax and rebate policy could help cover the cost of implementing the policy. Arquitt and Cornwell (2005) apply system dynamics to examine the influence of eco-certification and labeling on shrimp aquaculture.…”

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A system dynamics analysis of boom and bust in the shrimp aquaculture industry

Arquitt¹,

Johnstone³

2005

System Dynamics Review

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Driven by growing international demand for shrimp and stagnating catches of wild shrimp, the shrimp aquaculture industry has grown remarkably over the past two decades. Initial hopes that farmed shrimp could provide an environmentally benign alternative to over-exploited wild stocks have, however, proven disappointing. Although global growth has been steady, the industry has experienced dramatic production crashes at national and sub-national scales associated with severe environmental damage. From a systems perspective, the industry is prone to exceed and consume its environmental carrying capacity, resulting in boom and bust patterns of development. In this paper we describe a dynamic commodity system model built to examine boom and bust in the shrimp aquaculture industry. Experiments with the model suggest that a policy that taxes the industry and rebates proceeds to licensed producers may help shift the system toward sustainability.

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A system dynamics analysis of boom and bust in the shrimp aquaculture industry

Arquitt¹,

Johnstone³

2005

System Dynamics Review

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“…This would address the question of the extent to which local origin induces a willingness to pay on the part of consumers. This is important because past research has suggested that individuals may not be willing to pay more unless they see personal advantages to the purchase (Arquitt and Cornwell 2007).…”

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“…Our meso-level approach responds to calls by researchers to link micro-level consumer behavior (Cornwell and Drennan 2004) with macro-level social and, in particular, environmental outcomes (Arquitt and Cornwell 2007). The impracticality of swaying hundreds of millions of individuals toward sustainable consumption has resulted in a new call to consider micro-meso-macro relationships (Layton 2008).…”

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Social Sustainability as Buying Local: Effects of Soft Policy, Meso-Level Actors, and Social Influences on Purchase Intentions

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Cornwell

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Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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Recently issued United Nations Sustainable Development Goals call for people to make extensive behavioral changes, including consuming food more sustainably. The authors explore the role that meso-level retailers play in local purchasing, an activity that the United Nations recognizes as a contributor to sustainability. In so doing, the authors promote more balance within the marketing literature, which has focused more on the environmental component of products and purchasing and less on the local dimension. This article spotlights "soft" policies, those that use persuasion and encourage voluntary action, rather than direct methods, such as subsidies and regulations. The authors develop a core hypothesis about how social norm messages and attitudes toward local food affect consumer purchase intentions. They test this hypothesis across national contexts via online surveys of 316 Italian consumers (Study 1) and 186 U.S. consumers (Study 2). The analysis reveals that in both countries, the effectiveness of social norm messages increases with unfavorable attitudes toward local buying. The study concludes with thoughts for researchers and policy makers about how meso-level actors, such as retailers, can elicit more local purchasing.

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“…Given the fact that system dynamics modelling has its roots in engineering, it has been commonly used in management‐related research because of its ability to handle both qualitative and quantitative variables and the interrelationships between these via the use of feedback structures (Galanakis, 2006). Additionally, the use of feedback structures equips KM researchers with the ability to link macro‐level system behaviour with micro‐level decision making in a complex social system (Sterman, 2000; Garud and Kumaraswamy, 2005; Arquitt and Cornwell, 2007). Furthermore, utilizing a formal mathematical model, such as a system dynamics model, allows researchers to identify themes common to the different textual descriptions and, in turn, enforces the internal consistency of the theory developed, whose core structures can be explicitly represented in the forms of graphs and models (Rudolph & Repenning, 2002).…”

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System dynamics modelling for examining knowledge transfer during crises

Wang

2010

Syst. Res.

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The threat of organizational crises cannot be overlooked in today's complex business environment. During crises, organizations encounter unique, threatening and stressinducing situations in which critical decisions must be made constantly in a timely manner based on limited information. Nevertheless, there have been very few studies engaging in exploring the theme of knowledge transfer in the context of managing organizational crises. Consequently, this study attempts to explore this issue with reference to a product recall crisis of a motorcycle manufacturer using the method of system dynamics modelling. The research findings illustrate the multiple knowledge transfer mechanisms used and their influence on organizational performance during crises as a means of distributing critical knowledge and facilitating the development of collective understanding within organizations. Future studies which aim to explore the dynamics of different types of knowledge being processed by means of various knowledge transfer mechanisms during crises are encouraged. Copyright # 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords knowledge transfer; organizational crisis; system dynamics INTRODUCTION Knowledge can be considered as a justified notion derived from a combination of individual experience, values, contextual information, expert insight and grounded intuition, which can enhance the ability to take effective actions (Nonaka, 1994;Davenport and Prusak, 1998). Prior studies indicate that knowledge is different from other organizational resources, since it, once created, can be repeatedly combined and recontextualized to generate new knowledge through the continuous enforcement of the adaptive processes, such as higher order learning, and then can provide organizations with new guidelines for supporting their subsequent strategic decision making (e.g. Grover and Davenport, 2001;Sambamurthy et al., 2003). Organizational crises, which can be defined as low frequency, high consequence events that can significantly hinder organizations from achieving their fundamental goals or continuing to operate successfully (Pearson and Clair, 1998), are generally unavoidable for most organizations over their entire lifetime (Elsubbaugh et al., 2004). Organizational crises tend to generate task demands for an organization that exceed, or come close to exceeding, an organization's abilities to handle them without considerable additional resources (Smith, 2005). Additionally, the regular operational mechanisms and organizational structures may go down or be disrupted, making them unable to function effectively to support the individuals making critical decisions during crises (Dearstyne, 2007). This implies that during crises organizations encounter a unique, threatening and stress-inducing decision-making environment that must be dealt with consistently in a timely manner (Pearson and Clair, 1998). When there is time pressure in situations with high-level ambiguity and uncertainty, decision makers tend to accept lower quality information/knowledge that is mo...

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Micro-Macro Linking Using System Dynamics Modeling: An Examination of Eco-Labeling Effects for Farmed Shrimp

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

A system dynamics analysis of boom and bust in the shrimp aquaculture industry

A system dynamics analysis of boom and bust in the shrimp aquaculture industry

Social Sustainability as Buying Local: Effects of Soft Policy, Meso-Level Actors, and Social Influences on Purchase Intentions

System dynamics modelling for examining knowledge transfer during crises

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