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FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 72-84Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.06.007
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Consumer behaviour; Novel foods; Neophobia; Decision-making structure; Means-end chain; Laddering
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [AGL2009-13303-C02-01]
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For some years now, the food sector has been faced with an increasingly competitive and globalised market and much more stringent demand from consumers. This situation has forced food producers and processors, among other things, to innovate and develop new products in order to improve their position in the competition. However, innovations in the food industry suffer a high market failure rate, partly due to a phenomenon known as neophobia, which is the rejection some people express towards new or unfamiliar foods. This paper aims to analyze whether variation in the complexity and the associated benefits and values in the choice structure relating to novel food products can be linked to the consumer's degree of phobia towards novel foods. These objectives are pursued through a study based on the means-end chain theory. The results show that consumption decisions regarding novel food products have an important emotional component that is more pronounced in neophobic subjects, suggesting that the greater the reluctance to consume the product, the more complex the underlying choice process. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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