Modeling the factors affecting rural consumers’ purchase of organic and free-range produce: A case study of consumers’ from the Island of Arran in Scotland,UK |
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| Authors: | Nina Michaelidou Louise M Hassan |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School, University House, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK;2. School of Management and Languages, Heriot-Watt University, UK |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the roles of personal, product related and economic factors in predicting rural consumers’ attitudes and purchase intentions towards organic and free-range produce. A conceptual model is derived and tested via structural equation modeling on a sample of 222 rural consumers. The results show that attitude is explained by consumers’ food safety concern, ethical lifestyle and price perceptions. Attitude partially mediates the effects of ethical lifestyle and price on intention to purchase organic produce as well as the effect of ethical lifestyle on intention to purchase free-range produce. Attitude assumes a more central role in fully mediating the effect of food safety concern on intention to purchase organic produce, as well as the effect of price on intention to purchase free-range produce. Overall the conceptual model of consumer decision making performs well in both organic and free-range contexts yielding similar results. |
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| Keywords: | Organic Free-range Rural consumers Structural equation modeling |
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