Assessing the gender impacts of Fairtrade
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of the paper is to summarise the research evidence related to Fairtrade impacts on women and gender relations and propose a conceptual framework for future research on...
View ArticleFrom Trust to Compliance: Accountability in the Fair Trade Movement
AbstractPurpose - There is a growing academic literature exploring the Fair Trade movement but to date, there has been little explicit discussion of accountability within the movement. This paper casts...
View ArticleFairtrade Governance and Producer Voices: Stronger or Silent?
AbstractPurpose - While recent changes to Fairtrade’s governance structures aim to facilitate ‘stronger voices’ for producers, relatively little is known about the impact on individual farmers. This...
View ArticleWhat Does it Mean To Do Fair Trade? Ontology, praxis, and the ‘Fair for Life’...
AbstractPurpose - The article discusses dynamics of interpretation concerned with what it means to do fair trade. Moving beyond the tendency to see heterogeneous practices as parallel interpretations...
View ArticleFair trade narratives and political dynamics
AbstractPurpose - The recent departure of Fair Trade USA from Fairtrade International is the most seismic event in the fair trade movement in past decade. This paper analyses recent dynamics between...
View ArticleFair Trade and European Public Procurement: Legal Principles and Governance...
AbstractPurpose - The article examines principles of Fair Trade in public procurement in Europe, focusing on legal dimensions related to the European Public Procurement...
View ArticleConnecting producers and consumers through fair and sustainable value chains
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View ArticleSocial entrepreneurship - innovative challengers or adjustable followers?
AbstractPurpose - Social entrepreneurial initiatives are often ascribed innovative roles for the public good. However, it is also argued that the same initiatives react to conditions in different...
View ArticleThe ambiguities of (social) value creation: Towards an extended understanding...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to question the supposed self-evidence of a core category in the social entrepreneurship literature: "social value creation." By criticizing the...
View ArticleManagers’ competences in social enterprises: which specificities?
AbstractPurpose - The management of an organization and the context within which this organization evolves are recognized as two important aspects of any organization. This paper examines the specific...
View ArticleExamining the Labor Market Presence of U.S. WISEs
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for training and employment of disadvantaged workers. A key...
View ArticleThe Role of Legitimacy in Social Enterprise-Corporate Collaboration
AbstractPurpose - This article explores the role of organizational legitimacy in understanding the emergence and development of ‘cross-sector collaboration’ between social enterprises and corporations....
View ArticleSocial entrepreneurship – innovative challengers or adjustable followers?
AbstractPurpose– Social entrepreneurial initiatives are often ascribed innovative roles for the public good. However, it is also argued that the same initiatives react to conditions in different...
View ArticleThe ambiguities of (social) value creation: towards an extended understanding...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to question the supposed self-evidence of a core category in the social entrepreneurship literature: “social value creation”. By criticizing the...
View ArticleManagers' competences in social enterprises: which specificities?
AbstractPurpose– The management of an organisation and the context within which this organisation evolves are recognised as two important aspects of any organisation. Few studies have been conducted...
View ArticleExamining the labor market presence of US WISEs
AbstractPurpose– Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for training and employment of disadvantaged workers. A key challenge for...
View ArticleThe role of legitimacy in social enterprise-corporate collaboration
AbstractPurpose– This article aims to explore the role of organisational legitimacy in understanding the emergence and development of “cross-sector collaboration” between social enterprises and...
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