An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Green Procurement Practices in the German Food Service Industry

Verena Hauschildt and Birgit Schulze-Ehlers

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2014, vol. 17, issue 3, 32

Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between sustainability views, drivers and barriers and concrete procurement practices for sustainability in the German food service industry (FSI), building on earlier work of Rankin et al. (2011) on this topic. Further innovation lies in the explicit regard to product-specific differences in the importance and level of implementation of sustainable sourcing, as well as in the special focus on the FSI, a sector with significant economic importance, for which only small amounts of information can be found. For this study, qualitative interviews among head chefs and quantitative standardized surveys among decision makers from the FSI were conducted.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.183433

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