Choosing Organic and Healthy Food in Times of Economic Uncertainty: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis in France

Akrout Houcine () and Kaswengi Joseph ()
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Akrout Houcine: Inseec Business School, Inseec U., France, Marketing, 27 avenue VellefauxParis, France
Kaswengi Joseph: University of Orléans, VALLOREM Lab France, Avenue du Parc Floral BP 674 45067Orléans Cédex 2

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2019, vol. 17, issue 1, 13

Abstract: Organic and healthy products are becoming more prevalent in markets worldwide, but limited research investigates how consumers choose among these products. This article considers relationships among price, product quality, assortment, and staff service that might affect consumer product choices, as well as a moderating role of macroeconomic conditions. The most important drivers of a choice of organic over healthy products are assortment and service. This study also reveals a distinction between organic and healthy products resulting from the interaction of marketing variables with macroeconomic contexts, such that crisis periods can prompt the cannibalization of healthy products by organic products.

Keywords: organic; healthy; expansion; crisis; cannibalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1515/jafio-2017-0027

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