Stewards of Virtue?: The Ethical Dilemma of CSR in African Agriculture

By M. Blowfield, C. Dolan. 2008

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains (2011, unknown): “Within VCA, Bolwig et al. (2008) have developed a framework for integrating gender, environmental and poverty dimensions into VCA; earlier Barrientos et al.”
Do codes of conduct improve worker rights in supply chains? A study of Fair Wear Foundation (2015, background): “…statistically significant improvements, our results partly support the claim that codes of conduct, at least post-order and post-audit, are too weak for the job of substantially improving worker rights in global production networks (Blowfield and Dolan 2008; Chan and Siu, 2010; Frundt, 2004).”
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability (2009, background): “Shifting to a reflexive view of governance, or governmentality, a set of studies highlight the rationalities and techniques through which network actors govern themselves and others (Blowfield & Dolan, 2008; Gibbon & Ponte, 2008; Hughes, 2001).”
Revisiting Supplier Compliance with MNC Codes of Conduct: Recoupling Policy and Practice at Chinese Toy Suppliers (2014, background): “…framed by numerous concepts, such as “self-regulating governance mechanisms” (Beschorner and Müller 2007), “soft law” (Wells 2007; Adeyeye 2011), “governing without government” (Blowfield and Dolan 2008), “voluntary standards” (Reinecke et al. 2012), and “privatized regulation” (O’Laughlin 2008).”