Global value chains, labor organization and private social standards: lessons from East African cut flower industries.
By L. Riisgaard. 2009
244 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management
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In Business and International Management
- Frank Wijen
- G. Schouten
- V. Bitzer
- V. Soundararajan
- Niklas Egels-Zandén
- Jill A. Brown
- Jeroen Merk
- S. Ponte
In Plant Science
- Frank Wijen
- V. Bitzer
- G. Schouten
- V. Soundararajan
- Niklas Egels-Zandén
- Jill A. Brown
- Jeroen Merk
- S. Ponte
In Strategy and Management
- V. Bitzer
- G. Schouten
- Frank Wijen
- Jeroen Merk
- V. Soundararajan
- Niklas Egels-Zandén
- Jill A. Brown
- S. Ponte
Citations in the corpus
- Firms' Adoption of International Standards: Evidence from the Ethiopian Floriculture Sector (2015, methodology): “GLOBALGAP is applied to wide range of products, including crops, livestock, aquaculture and horticulture.”
- Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “…and pressures with voluntary governance mechanisms like codes of conduct and/or social standards to ensure their suppliers’ compliance with demands for better social and environmental conditions (Beschorner and Müller, 2007; Jiang, 2009; Locke et al., 2007; Locke and Romis, 2007; Riisgaard, 2009).”
- ‘Roundtabling’ sustainability: Lessons from the biofuel industry (2014, background): “10 standards arise from (or shape) value chain restructuring, and how they shape inclusion/exclusion dynamics and their geographies, and welfare outcomes (Gibbon and Ponte 2005; Neilson and Pritchard 2009; Riisgaard 2009).”
- Private Regulation and Trade Union Rights: Why Codes of Conduct Have Limited Impact on Trade Union Rights (2014, background): “There is thus a limited role not only for workers but also for international and local unions in the auditing process (for exceptions see, for example, Riisgaard (2009)).”
- Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “…(Bartley, 2007; Zietsma & McKnight, 2009), wine (Delmas & Grant, forthcoming), and sea fish (Visseren-Hamakers, Arts, & Glasbergen, 2007; Oosterveer & Spaargaren, 2011) to fairtrade coffee (Reinecke, Manning, & Von Hagen, 2012), flowers (Riisgaard, 2009; Prado, 2013), and clothing (O’Rourke, 2007).”
- Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks (2013, background): “…of most who responded to his initial call, has engaged with a rather narrow concept of labour agency; one which was primarily conceived of in terms of collective, organised labour activism and formally institutionalised trade unions and workers’ collectives (Cumbers et al, 2008; Riisgaard, 2009).”
- The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains: A new trend in sustainability governance? (2015, background): “Transnational governance scholars have studied the proliferation of private voluntary standards in a variety of global value chains as Northern-based initiatives (e.g. Cashore, 2002; Bitzer et al. 2008; Riisgaard, 2009), but are only beginning to take note of the recent emergence of standards initia”
- Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis (2011, unknown): “Riisgaard (2009) points at different “actors for change” in defining and upgrading labor standards in the East African cut flower industry: in Tanzania the lead was taken by the labor unions, while in Kenya NGOs are the key player in the upgrading process.”