This study extends the understanding of the relationship between consumer motivation, involvement and evaluation of traditional food products (TFP). One important research issue was to explore whether consumers' perceived uniqueness could be one important quality or value that theoretically and empirically could differentiate TFP from ordinary, usual and “everyday” traditional food. A central location ...

Density dependent prey–predator systems under the impact of harvest are considered. The recruitment functions for both the prey and predator belong to the Deriso–Schnute family which allow us to study how the dynamical behaviour of both populations changes when compensatory density dependence turns overcompensatory. Depending on the degree of overcompensation, we show in the case of no harvest that ...

Background: As part of political and professional development with increased focus on including service users within mental health services, these services are being transformed. Specifically, they are shifting from institutional to noninstitutional care provision with increased integration of the use of electronic health and digitalization. In the period from March to May 2020, COVID-19 restrictions ...

Zhang and Zhou (2016) use the concept of Bayesian persuasion due to Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011) to analyze information disclosure in a contest with one-sided asymmetric information. They show that an effort-maximizing designer can manipulate information disclosure to increase expected efforts in the contest, based upon active contest participation by all types of the informed player. We allow some ...

<p>Samferdselsprosjekter som oppleves som kritisk viktige lokalt og regionalt, vurderes ofte som samfunnsøkonomisk ulønnsomme. Med mange prosjekter som konkurrerer om begrensede offentlige midler, er det da svært viktig at beslutninger om hvilke prosjekter som skal prioriteres er velbegrunnede og gjennomtenkte. <p>Den samfunnsøkonomiske analysen skal – ved å synliggjøre tiltakenes samfunnsøkonomiske ...

The purpose of this study is to apply the conceptual framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain the consumption of sustainable produced fish in Sweden. We seek to understand the moderating role of food product involvement and environmental awareness as extensions of traditional constructs such as attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioral control. The data were derived from ...

This study investigates the relationships between industry-specific institutions, industry structure, and industry performance. The Norwegian Pelagic value chain’s harvesting industry and its processing industry comprised the empirical context. The study findings reveal that the harvesters (the fishers), on average, achieved nearly twice the return on assets relative to the processors. Furthermore, ...

We study a design problem for an effort-maximizing principal in a two-player contest with two dimensions of asymmetry. Players have different skill levels and an information gap exists, as only one player knows the skill difference. The principal has two policy instruments to redress the lack of competitive balance due to asymmetry; she can commit to an information-disclosing mechanism, and she can ...

This paper aims to elucidate some didactical and pedagogical issues related to the design of a course module on cost allocation, a pivotal topic in management accounting education at the undergraduate level around the globe. The module in question is specifically tailored to third-year undergraduates in business pursuing a major in accounting-related topics. As a theoretical back-drop, the paper ...