Seasonality effects on consumers' preferences over quality attributes of different beef products

Ardeshiri, Ali; Sampson, Spring; Swait́, Joffre

doi:10.1016/j.meatsci.2019.06.004

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“…Given that consumers make many food‐related decisions every day, coupled with the diversity of food products, they are unlikely that individuals allocate substantial cognitive effort and time to each decision (Adamowicz & Swait, ; Ardeshiri, Sampson, & Swait, ). Similarly, consumers are uncertain about the quality and safety of food products (Verbeke, ).…”

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Profiling consumers based on information use and trust in a developing economy

Asante-Addo

Weible

2020

Int J Consumer Studies

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In the wake of the intense debate about the effect of poultry imports on domestic poultry industries in sub‐Saharan Africa, information campaigns have evolved to encourage the consumption of domestic poultry meat products. Nevertheless, consumers use numerous channels to find information, and thus, the extent to which resources should be allocated to these channels to reach segments of consumers is vital. The purpose of this paper is to identify consumer groups based on use and trust in information sources and then profile the segments using sociodemographic variables, purchase motives, and meat consumption. Face‐to‐face interviews were used to collect data amongst 500 urban consumers in Ghana, which were analysed with factor analysis and two‐step cluster analysis. Results show that consumers frequently use personal sources of information about chicken. Cluster analysis revealed three consumer segments: cautious consumers (18.2%), enthusiastic consumers (53.0%), and optimistic consumers (28.8%). The segments differed significantly regarding the type of information searched for, sociodemographic characteristics, purchase motives, and chicken meat consumption patterns. The findings can aid actors and institutions seeking to increase the consumption of domestic poultry meat in developing targeted communication strategies that suit the characteristics, motivations, and information needs of different consumers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiling consumers based on information use and trust in a developing economy

Asante-Addo

Weible

2020

Int J Consumer Studies

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“…It seems incredibly naïve seen from the perspective of today. It is now a mainstream marketing effort to use personality profiles and other “psychographic” variables of the target groups (e.g., Kotler, 1965 ; Henriques et al, 2009 ; Ghosh, 2010 ; Cisek et al, 2014 ; Cai et al, 2015 ; Graffeo et al, 2015 ; Udomkun et al, 2018 ; Ardeshiri et al, 2019 ). It became even more mainstream with the launch of Google personalised ads in 2005.…”

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Choice Hygiene for “Consumer Neuroscientists”? Ethical Considerations and Proposals for Future Endeavours

Christensen

Farahi²,

Vartanian

et al. 2022

Front. Neurosci.

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Is the use of psychological and neuroscientific methods for neuromarketing research always aligned with the principles of ethical research practice? Some neuromarketing endeavours have passed from informing consumers about available options, to helping to market as many products to consumers as possible. Needs are being engineered, using knowledge about the human brain to increase consumption further, regardless of individual, societal and environmental needs and capacities. In principle, the ground ethical principle of any scientist is to further individual, societal and environmental health and well-being with their work. If their findings can be used for the opposite, this must be part of the scientist’s considerations before engaging in such research and to make sure that the risks for misuse are minimised. Against this backdrop, we provide a series of real-life examples and a non-exhaustive literature review, to discuss in what way some practices in the neuromarketing domain may violate the Helsinki Declaration of Experimentation with Human Subjects. This declaration was set out to regulate biomedical research, but has since its inception been applied internationally also to behavioural and social research. We illustrate, point by point, how these ground ethical principles should be applied also to the neuromarketing domain. Indisputably, the growth in consumption is required due to current prevalent economical models. Thus, in the final part of the paper, we discuss how alternative models may be promotable to a larger public, aided by more ethical marketing endeavours, based on neuroscientific discoveries about the human brain. We propose this as a philosophical question, a point of discussion for the future, to make neuromarketing as a discipline, fit for the future, respecting the ethical implications of this research.

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“…Intrinsic quality cues form meat consumers' expectations (Acebrón and Dopico, 2000), while extrinsic quality cues assist consumers in reducing the gap between expectation and true eating experience. Such gaps are sensitive to consumer needs and purpose (Ardeshiri et al , 2019), socio-demographic and cultural background (Webb and O'Neill, 2008; Joo et al , 2013) and prior experience (Grunert et al , 2004; Brunsø et al , 2005). Knowledge of consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for attributes is a precursor to a decision on the appropriate strategic fit of actions in the meat SC more broadly (Mounter et al , 2016).…”

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Product quality information in supply chains: a performance-linked conceptual framework applied to the Australian red meat industry

Zhang

Baker

Griffith

2020

IJLM

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PurposeThis paper aims to address the association between the quality and quantity of information in supply chains and the costs and benefits of generating, using and sharing it.Design/methodology/approachThe authors’ conceptual framework draws on multiple disciplines and theories of the value and use of product information. Controllable aspects of information, its quality and quantity, are the focus of the study as drivers of firm and chain performance. Structural equation models of constructs at two stages of the Australian red meat supply chain are employed, using data from a survey of 81 sheep and cattle breeders and commercial producers.FindingsInformation quality influences performance more for some product attributes than others and is more influential than is information quantity. Information sharing for many attributes generates benefits only at high cost. Investment in measurement and transmission technologies is supported for intrinsic and extrinsic measures of quality. Differences in respondents' evaluation of information quality are interpreted as evidence of persistent chain failure.Originality/valueTo the authors' knowledge, this is the first attempt at quantifying and comparing the benefits and costs of information sharing across multiple stages of a supply chain and the first to assess quantitatively the role played by information quality and quantity in generating costs and benefits.

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Seasonality effects on consumers' preferences over quality attributes of different beef products

Cited by 28 publications

References 37 publications

Profiling consumers based on information use and trust in a developing economy

Profiling consumers based on information use and trust in a developing economy

Choice Hygiene for “Consumer Neuroscientists”? Ethical Considerations and Proposals for Future Endeavours

Product quality information in supply chains: a performance-linked conceptual framework applied to the Australian red meat industry

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