An Institutional Approach to the Examination of Food Safety

Desmond Ng and Victoria Salin ()

No 285199, Reports from Texas A&M University, Agribusiness, Food, and Consumer Economics Research Center

Abstract: Food safety is an inherently complex agribusiness problem. Food safety is a result of the collec-tive efforts of various members of the food supply chain in which each member’s production, handling, processing and retailing practices jointly determine the safety of the consumed product. Although agency explanations have been offered as one potential solution to this research chal-lenge, food safety also operates within a greater institutional setting. A theoretical framework that draws on an institutional approach is developed in which two sets of propositions are offered to explain the coordination and economic organization of food safety. Such a framework offers four contributions / implications to organizational economic and food safety research.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.285199

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