Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions

This study aims to understand the implications of stricter food safety regulations and certification systems to the food industry and to find ways to manage risks and costs associated with these regulations and systems. This paper empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food sa...

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Autores principales: Ragasa, Catherine, Thornsbury, Suzanne, Joshi, Satish
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153634
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author Ragasa, Catherine
Thornsbury, Suzanne
Joshi, Satish
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description This study aims to understand the implications of stricter food safety regulations and certification systems to the food industry and to find ways to manage risks and costs associated with these regulations and systems. This paper empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safety systems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification. Survival models are used to evaluate firm-level decisions among seafood processors in the Philippines. Whereas initial certification decisions were influenced mainly by easily obtainable a priori indicators such as output price, scale of production, and association membership, decisions to continue certification were influenced by a larger number of less-visible factors including price differentials across markets and cost structures. Managerial hubris may have played a role in initial certification decisions, but decertification decisions were more informed by realized cost–benefit comparisons.
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spelling CGSpace1536342025-11-06T05:23:12Z Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions Ragasa, Catherine Thornsbury, Suzanne Joshi, Satish food safety regulations seafoods This study aims to understand the implications of stricter food safety regulations and certification systems to the food industry and to find ways to manage risks and costs associated with these regulations and systems. This paper empirically examines the timing of initial decisions to adopt food safety systems and subsequent decisions to maintain the certification. Survival models are used to evaluate firm-level decisions among seafood processors in the Philippines. Whereas initial certification decisions were influenced mainly by easily obtainable a priori indicators such as output price, scale of production, and association membership, decisions to continue certification were influenced by a larger number of less-visible factors including price differentials across markets and cost structures. Managerial hubris may have played a role in initial certification decisions, but decertification decisions were more informed by realized cost–benefit comparisons. 2013 2024-10-01T13:56:57Z 2024-10-01T13:56:57Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153634 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ragasa, Catherine; Thornsbury, Suzanne and Joshi, Satish. 2013. Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1296. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153634
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Ragasa, Catherine
Thornsbury, Suzanne
Joshi, Satish
Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_full Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_fullStr Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_short Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions
title_sort sustainability of eu food safety certification a survival analysis of firm decisions
topic food safety
regulations
seafoods
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