Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179096 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Agricultural and Food Economics [ISSN:] 2193-7532 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 11 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 1-25
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The article 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. Results highlight tendencies to initially overestimate of benefits and underestimate costs of food safety certifications, resulting in unrealistically optimistic projections and may lead to adverse firm performance.
Subjects: 
HACCP
Food safety
Survival analysis
Seafood industry
JEL: 
Q18
Q13
D22
L66
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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