This research is aimed at investigating the consumer’s preference for food produced in Taiwan and the economic benefits for the country of origin labeling. The study uses both experimental auction and contingent valuation method (CVM) to investigate factors that affect the consumer’s...

agricultural producer organisations

The World Health Organization has stated that obesity is spreading around the world like a “global epidemic”. In 2004 the percentage of obese people in the Italian population was 9%, but the trend s increasing in recent years. Focusing on this country, the purpose of the paper is to analyze...

Modern societies have failed to find affordable ways to fund needed infrastructure. Problems have multiplied from ignoring the particular characteristics of infrastructure and assuming the adequacy of the conventional finance of recent times, be this publicly or privately sourced. These...

This paper establishes the tactics that auditors use in negotiations with their client-management. It analyses those tactics to determine whether they are related by some underlying dimensions and their relevant strategies. Auditors performed a sorting task on 38 audit-specific tactics and...

Research on buyer-seller relationships in the agricultural sector receives little attention. A growing body of evidence suggests that strong buyer-seller relationships facilitate more efficient supply chains. The long term relationship literature tends to treat suppliers as a homogenous group...

We tested for club convergence in U.S. agricultural total factory productivity using a sigma convergence test. We used the same club of states as used by McCunn and Huffman as well as different states within 10 clubs identified by the cluster analysis. Results showed convergence was evident only...

In spite of different economic agents’interests, as well as the Administration’s effort inpromoting extensive beef-producing systems over thelast years, this kind of activity still hasn’t reached thedesirable levels, being necessary that farmers perceivean appropriate benefit which...

The overall acceptability of 202 consumers has beenanalysed by ANOVA, multiple means comparison, clusteranalysis and internal preference mapping (MDPREF). Threeclusters are found with different preference criteria. Theseclusters can also be characterized according to actual purchasebehaviour,...