Structural topic modeling for corporate social responsibility of food supply chain management: evidence from FDA recalls on plant-based food products

Jiyoon An

Social Responsibility Journal, 2024, vol. 20, issue 6, 1089-1100

Abstract: Purpose - The rising number of food recalls has raised concerns about complexity, globalization and weak governance in the food supply chain. This paper aims to investigate the recall of plant-based products with data from the US Food and Drug Administration. Design/methodology/approach - Introducing the structural topic modeling method allowed us to test theories on recall in the context of sustainable food consumption, enhancing the understanding of food recall processes. This approach helps identify latent topics of product recalls and their interwoven relationships with various stakeholders. Findings - The results answer a standing research call for empirical investigation in a nascent food industry to identify stakeholders’ engagements for food safety crisis management for corporate social responsibility practices. This finding provides novel insights on managing threats to food safety at an industry level to extend existing antecedents and consequences of product recall at a micro level. Practical implications - For practitioners, this empirical finding may provide insights into stakeholder management and develop evidence-based strategies to prevent threats to food safety. For public policymakers, this analysis may help identify patterns of recalls and assist guidelines and alarm systems (e.g. EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) on threats in the food supply chain. Originality/value - Two detected clusters, such as opportunisms of market actors in the plant-based food system and food culture, from the analysis help understand corporate social responsibility and food safety in the plant-based food industry.

Keywords: Food supply chain; Product recall; Plant-based food; Structural topic modeling; US Food and Drug Administration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1108/SRJ-07-2023-0412

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