Consumers clearly like Fairtrade. Sales of Fairtrade products in Europe, North America, and Japan have grown exponentially in recent years; Fairtrade bananas have a 50 per cent market share in Switzerland (AgroFair, 2004), and global sales of all Fairtrade products amounted to approximately...

This paper examines social entrepreneurship from the perspective of impact and accountability by identifying the goals of social ventures, outlining evaluation mechanisms, and identifying challenges faced by organizations in implementing their strategies.

In recent years, Fair Trade has emerged as a powerful symbol of the trade justice movement. Engaging consumers and activists alike, it appears to offer a new model of production and distribution that is both scalable and has real impact. Yet, though it is growing rapidly, it accounts for only a...

Despite widespread acknowledgement that social entrepreneurship and social enterprise remain highly contextual –and, therefore, contestable– notions which can be interpreted in various ways depending on the ideology and the goals of the institutions championing them (Dart 2004; Dey & Steyaert 2010;...