Purpose

Over the last decades, Swiss core actors in the administration, the parliament and the food chain, have developed a national quality strategy for the agri-food sector. The effectiveness of such symbolic actions is unclear.

Design/methodology/approach

By dividing the average export prices by the average import prices of commodities on a four-digit tariff-line level, the study tests how price ratios have evolved between 1997 and 2017.

Findings

Based on examples where these ratios turn systematically upward or downward, the study shows that the export–import price ratio generally follows a decreasing trend over time. The author concludes that the national quality strategy for business suffers from a weak level of operationalisation.

Originality/value

To the best of the author’s knowledge, the indicator used in the study is new.

中文翻译：

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国家质量管理策略的有效性如何？瑞士的经验证据

目的

在过去的几十年中，瑞士政府，议会和食品链的核心参与者为农业食品行业制定了国家质量战略。这种象征性行动的有效性尚不清楚。

设计/方法/方法

通过将平均出口价格除以商品价格的平均进口价格（四位数），该研究测试了价格比在1997年至2017年之间的变化。

发现

根据这些比率有系统地上升或下降的例子，研究表明，进出口价格比率通常随时间呈下降趋势。作者得出的结论是，国家企业质量战略的运营水平很低。

创意/价值

据作者所知，该研究中使用的指标是新的。