This article investigates the outcomes of mainstream coffee voluntary sustainability standards for high-biodiversity coffee diversification. By viewing voluntary sustainability standards certifications as performative marketing tools, we address the question of how such certification schemes affect coffee value creation based on unique biodiversity conservation properties in coffee farming. To ...

This replication study of the drivers of ISO 14000 certifications extends the work of Corbett and Kirsch (2001) and provides a different and simpler predictive model of the factors contributing to the growth of ISO 14000 certifications. The main finding is that at national level ISO 14000 certification densities can be explained by two factors: the installed base of ISO 9000 certificates and th...

Cyber assurance, which is the ability to operate under onslaught of cyber attacks and other unexpected events, essential for organizations facing inundating security threats on a daily basis. Organizations usually employ multiple strategies conduct risk management achieve assurance. Utilizing cybersecurity standards certifications can provide guidance vendors design manufacture secure Informati...

AIM The purpose of this prospective cohort study is to examine whether cognitive decline is an independent predictor of new long-term care insurance (LTCI) requirement certifications in Japan. METHODS A total of 5,765 community-dwelling older Japanese adults who, at baseline, were independent in terms of their activities of daily living participated in this study and were followed up for 18 m...

In a previous study, multiple regression techniques were applied to Flight Operations Quality Assurance-derived data to develop parsimonious model(s) for fuel consumption on the Boeing 757 airplane. The present study examined several data mining algorithms, including neural networks, on the fuel consumption problem and compared them to the multiple regression results obtained earlier. Using reg...

This article analyzes the willingness to pay of Costa Rican consumers for three environmental certifications in coffee market, namely, Carbon Neutral, Fairtrade, and ISO 14001. A face-to-face survey was applied 1191 inhabitants. The results show that are willing price premiums around 30% all considered certifications. In addition, a Cragg’s hurdle model shows household income, level education, ...

Following the technological developments and presented to the multidisciplinary processes as automakers, Volkswagen Brazil, represented by its ergonomists, through this paper, shows the importance of ergonomic efficiency of management applied to various levels of life of a product, since its creation to its final implementation on production lines.The preventive work of ergonomists during the p...