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From trust to compliance: accountability in the fair trade movement

Davenport, Eileen; Low, William - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 88-101

placed in formalized “rituals” of auditing rather than in organizations. Standards‐based certification has played a crucial … of “ethical consumerism” to signal (dis)content with the operations of the certification system. By contrast … stakeholders such as producers. Originality/value – This paper draws direct comparisons between the FLO system of certification of …

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Are fair trade organisations necessarily social enterprises?

Huybrechts, Benjamin; Defourny, Jacques - In: Social Enterprise Journal 4 (2008) 3, pp. 186-201

Purpose – Fair trade organisations (FTOs) have been taken quite early as examples of Social Enterprises (SE) and have contributed to the shaping of the SE concept. The purpose of this paper is to examine more deeply the link between FTOs and SE, both at a conceptual and at an empirical level....

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The governance of fair trade social enterprises in Belgium

Huybrechts, Benjamin - In: Social Enterprise Journal 6 (2010) 2, pp. 110-124

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the governance of “fair trade social enterprises” (FTSEs), i.e. the organisations exclusively dedicated to the import, distribution and/or labelling of fairly traded products. The aims are to describe and categorise the types of persons and...

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Fair trade and European public procurement: legal principles and governance dynamics

Fisher, Eleanor; Corbalán, Sergi - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 11-27

Purpose – The article aims to examine principles of fair trade in public procurement in Europe, focusing on legal dimensions related to the European Public Procurement Directives. Design/methodology/approach – The article situates public procurement of fair trade products in relation to the...

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Fair trade narratives and political dynamics

Tallontire, Anne; Nelson, Valerie - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 28-52

Purpose – The recent departure of Fair Trade USA (FTUSA) from Fairtrade International is the most seismic event in the fair trade movement in the past decade. This paper aims to analyse recent dynamics between and within multiple fair trade strands and the attendant changes in vision and...

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What does it mean to do fair trade?

Smith, Alastair Michael - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 53-72

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to move beyond positivistic political economy analysis of fair trade, and to examine competitive dynamics between competing interpretations in terms of the very fair trade concept itself. Design/methodology/approach – Grounded in an ideational...

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Fairtrade governance and producer voices: stronger or silent?

Sutton, Shannon - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 73-87

Purpose – 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 paper aims to consider the nature of participation and representation, assessing the role of...

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The role of legitimacy in social enterprise‐corporate collaboration

Huybrechts, Benjamin; Nicholls, Alex - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 2, pp. 130-146

Purpose – This article aims to explore the role of organisational legitimacy in understanding the emergence and development of “cross‐sector collaboration” between social enterprises and corporations. Design/methodology/approach – An in‐depth case study of a long‐standing but...

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Connecting producers and consumers through fair and sustainable value chains

Doherty, Bob; Huybrechts, Benjamin - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 1, pp. 4-10

that the dual mission of fair trade is out of balance and is in danger of becoming reduced to a certification scheme based …

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Where does the Fair Trade price premium go? Confronting consumers' request with reality

Langen, Nina; Adenaeuer, Lucie - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 3, pp. 293-314

for a Fair Trade product) and the point of sale calculations (revealing the percentage of the retail price going to the … high enough. Results reveal that 10 percent of the respondents require a minimum share of 90 percent of the retail price to … premium paid in the retail store for Fair Trade coffee consumers do request to reach the Fair Trade producer. …

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