Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions

The article empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safetysystems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification. Survival models areused to evaluate firm-level decisions among seafood processors in the Philippines.Whereas initial certification decisions were influ...

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Autores principales: Ragasa, Catherine, Thornsbury, Suzanne, Joshi, Satish
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147496
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author Ragasa, Catherine
Thornsbury, Suzanne
Joshi, Satish
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description The article empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safetysystems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification. Survival models areused to evaluate firm-level decisions among seafood processors in the Philippines.Whereas initial certification decisions were influenced mainly by easily obtain able apriori indicators such as output price, scale of production, and association membership,decisions to continue certification were influenced by a larger number of less-visiblefactors including price differentials across markets and cost structures. Managerialhubris may have played a role in initial certification decisions, but decertificationdecisions were more informed by realized cost–benefit comparisons. Results highlighttendencies to initially overestimate of benefits and underestimate costs of food safetycertifications, resulting in unrealistically optimistic projections and may lead to adversefirm performance.
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spelling CGSpace1474962024-10-25T07:53:47Z Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions Ragasa, Catherine Thornsbury, Suzanne Joshi, Satish fish industry survival agricultural policies haccp food safety markets regulations The article empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safetysystems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification. Survival models areused to evaluate firm-level decisions among seafood processors in the Philippines.Whereas initial certification decisions were influenced mainly by easily obtain able apriori indicators such as output price, scale of production, and association membership,decisions to continue certification were influenced by a larger number of less-visiblefactors including price differentials across markets and cost structures. Managerialhubris may have played a role in initial certification decisions, but decertificationdecisions were more informed by realized cost–benefit comparisons. Results highlighttendencies to initially overestimate of benefits and underestimate costs of food safetycertifications, resulting in unrealistically optimistic projections and may lead to adversefirm performance. 2017 2024-06-21T09:22:57Z 2024-06-21T09:22:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147496 en Open Access Springer Ragasa, Catherine; Thornsbury, Suzanne; and Joshi, Satish. 2017. Dynamics of EU food safety certification: a survival analysis of firm decisions. Agricultural and Food Economics 5(1): 11 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-017-0080-2
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survival
agricultural policies
haccp
food safety
markets
regulations
Ragasa, Catherine
Thornsbury, Suzanne
Joshi, Satish
Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_full Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_fullStr Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_full_unstemmed Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_short Dynamics of EU food safety certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_sort dynamics of eu food safety certification a survival analysis of firm decisions
topic fish industry
survival
agricultural policies
haccp
food safety
markets
regulations
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147496
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