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Geographical indication food products and ethnocentric tendencies: The importance of proximity, tradition, and ethnicity
- Source :
- Journal of Cleaner Production. 241:118210
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- The literature highlights the growing dissatisfaction of consumers with foods from industrial production systems. Their concern for health and the desire to support local producers led them to search for other alternatives: products that are local, traditional and typical of a particular region, such as many Geographical Indication (GI) food products. This paper explores the relationship between the purchase of GI food products, the attitudes towards proximity, tradition, and ethnicity, and consumer ethnocentric tendencies. The results, obtained through a mediation analysis, show that aspects such as products made by small companies and transparency (in terms of their production process) attain greater significance among consumers with higher levels of sub-national ethnocentrism. Moreover, these consumers appreciate that: (1) the products have been made using traditional methods, and (2) in addition to be typical of the region, these products can be bought directly from the producer, without intermediaries. Consumers who value these aspects, closely related to each other, present a greater purchase intention and a higher purchase frequency of food products with protected geographical status.
- Subjects :
- Value (ethics)
Ethnocentrism
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Transparency (market)
020209 energy
Strategy and Management
Industrial production
05 social sciences
Ethnic group
02 engineering and technology
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Geographical indication
Intermediary
Food products
050501 criminology
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Business
Marketing
0505 law
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09596526
- Volume :
- 241
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8111aa0271720d3635095eec665bcdbd