In this article we explore how variables associated both with material temptations (economic incentives that foster rule breaking) and nonmaterial behavioral determinants (protective factors that shield people from rule breaking) are linked to compliance with food laws. The object of the study is to examine food businesses in the ready‐to‐eat industry in three districts of the German capital, Berlin. We collected data on compliance behavior and its potential drivers via an anonymous postal survey in 2014. Accounting for the data structure, we used a generalized ordered logit regression to model the relationship between the presumed behavioral drivers and compliance. One crucial finding is that a feeling of embarrassment if relevant others were to learn about noncompliance is positively related to compliance. The same holds for the internalized approval of food laws and their enforcement (acceptance of rules).

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遵守德国的食品安全法：柏林的食品企业

在本文中，我们探讨了与物质诱惑（促进违反规则的经济激励）和非物质行为决定因素（防止人们违反规则的保护因素）相关的变量如何与遵守食品法相关联。该研究的目的是调查德国首都柏林三个地区的即食行业的食品企业。我们在 2014 年通过匿名邮政调查收集了有关合规行为及其潜在驱动因素的数据。考虑到数据结构，我们使用广义有序 Logit 回归对假定的行为驱动因素与合规性之间的关系进行建模。一个重要的发现是，如果相关的其他人得知不合规，感到尴尬与合规呈正相关。