@article{Ng:127106,
      recid = {127106},
      author = {Ng, Desmond W. and Salin, Victoria},
      title = {An Institutional Approach to the Examination of Food  Safety},
      journal = {International Food and Agribusiness Management Review},
      address = {2012-05-01},
      number = {1030-2016-82770},
      series = {Volume 15},
      pages = {26},
      month = {May},
      year = {2012},
      note = {The IFAMR is the official journal of IFAMA. www.ifama.org},
      abstract = {Food safety is an inherently complex agribusiness problem.  Food safety is a result of the collective 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 challenge, 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.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/127106},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.127106},
}