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Bodo Steiner

<a href="Bodo joined the Department of Economics & Management, University of Helsinki, in 2017 as Professor (Food Economics & Business Management), is head of the research group Management & Organizations for Sustainable Food Systems, as well as Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Reading, and previously has held faculty and visiting appointments at the University of California - Berkeley, University of Alberta, University College Cork, University of Southern Denmark, University of Kiel, and Beijing Normal University. His research and teaching interests focus on organizational sustainability, in particular social sustainability in food systems, value chains and organizational innovations. . [

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Ecological Economics, 2017

Resources Policy, Jun 1, 2023

Academy of Management Proceedings

European Journal of Political Economy, 2017

Small Business Economics, Mar 29, 2023

Knowledge networks in regional clusters are fundamental to support innovation and local developme... more Knowledge networks in regional clusters are fundamental to support innovation and local development. Within clusters, family firms are key in creating business opportunities and supporting the establishment of inter-organizational networks. Yet, their role within regional clusters for knowledge transfers is still not well understood, especially in comparison with non-family firms. This paper applies Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) to network data collected from the Parabiago cluster, one of the most important Italian footwear clusters, to contribute to a better understanding of the network strategies of family firms. We identify distinct network strategies associated with the cluster firms, accounting for different knowledge exchange types: technological,

Project Report Series, 2007

Vertical coordination throughout Canada's beef supply chain is imperfect on several accounts.... more Vertical coordination throughout Canada's beef supply chain is imperfect on several accounts. We observe failures in the established pricing system, the established grading system, a lack of appropriate incentives for investments to promote adding value, and misalignments due to the increasing industry concentration at the processor level. Since all of these issues are inherently linked, the proposed project has aimed to address them in an integrated manner. At the heart of this study is a firm-level analysis of alignment and risk-management problems at the cow-calf sector. A survey of cow-calf producers in Western Canada evaluated their willingness to participate in beef alliances. The initial part of the survey suggested that cow-calf producers view auction markets as price competitive but perhaps these markets are less successful at rewarding cattle quality. Very few of the surveyed participants had used contracts such as forward contracts or futures contracts in their cow-ca...

Following the May 2003 Canadian BSE case, food safety issues have become even more prominent to p... more Following the May 2003 Canadian BSE case, food safety issues have become even more prominent to policymakers and consumers. In both Canada and the US, governments and industry have responded with a variety of quality assurance, traceability and labeling schemes. However, there is little information available on the extent to which consumer perceptions differ regionally across North America towards labeling schemes. This paper attempts to fill this gap, by providing results on a variety of beef labeling strategies from choice experiments that were conducted in Alberta (Canada) and Montana (US). The analysis focuses on consumers' perceptions towards negative voluntary labeling with regard to BSE testing, genetically modified organisms (GMO) and the use of growth hormones in beef production. We find that four years after the first BSE case emerged in North America, consumers are willing to pay most to avoid risks associated with BSE. Montana and Alberta consumers are found not to b...

The Econometric Society Australasia Meeting, Jul 1, 2016

Motivated by theoretical arguments that assert a negative impact of ethnolinguistic diversity on ... more Motivated by theoretical arguments that assert a negative impact of ethnolinguistic diversity on social capital, this paper aims to provide some empirical evidence on the relationship between the two variables. In particular, using a cross section sample of 68 developed and developing countries, this paper has found a significant negative effect of ethnolinguistic diversity on social capital. Countries with fractionalized ethnic and linguistic groups as captured by both log number of languages and Desmet et al. (2012) and La Porta et al. (1999)’s measures on linguistic diversity tend to have lower levels of social trust, fewer memberships in social organizations, deteriorated social norms and structure, hence, lower overall social capital stock.

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2021

The European Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) with its underlying aim to support regional growt... more The European Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) with its underlying aim to support regional growth, cohesion, and innovation has by now been widely applied to European Sparsely Populated Areas (SPA...

Innovation-the European Journal of Social Science Research, 2021