Retailers, knowledges and changing commodity networks: the case of the cut flower trade

By A. Hughes. 2000

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies (2002, background): “Furthermore, several writers have highlighted the linear formations of economic practice that are engendered by a focus on the ‘chain’ in GCC analyses (Hughes, 2000; Leslie and Reimer, 1999).”
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks (2004, background): “…the global economic structure, spatial configuration, and social organization of agro-food (Bernstein, 1996; Dolan & Humphrey, 2000; Gibbon, 2001a; Hughes, 2000; Ponte, 2002a, 2002b; Raynolds, 1994; Talbot, 2002) and manufacturing networks (Dicken, 1998; Gereffi & Kaplinsky, 2001; Gereffi &…”
Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy (2001, background): “A second progressive dimension opened up by actor-network theory is the space provided for ethical analyses of the global economy (Bingham 1996: 645; Hughes 2000; Whatmore 1997; Whatmore and Thorne 1997).”
Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “We also need to avoid ‘treating retail and consumption as simple, unproblematic starting points from which to embark on a more worthy examination of exploitation in the productive sphere’ (Hughes, 2000, p. 177).”
Globalizing retail: conceptualizing the distribution-based transnational corporation (TNC) (2005, background): “The work of Hughes (2000; 2001; 2004), Leslie and Reimer (1999; 2003; Reimer and Leslie, 2004), Barrett et al. (2004) and Friedberg (2003; 2004) in geography, and related work in other disciplines (e.g., Kaplan and Kaplinski, 1998; Burch and Goss, 1999; Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; 2004; Schmitz and…”
The governance of global value chains (2005, background): “The recent work of geographers such as Hughes (2000), Henderson et al. (2002) and Dicken et al. (2001) has emphasized the complexity of inter-firm relationships in the global economy.”
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development (2002, background): “12 See, for instance, Hughes’ (2000) study of the cut- ower trade.”
Reading fair trade: political ecological imaginary and the moral economy of fair trade foods (2004, background): “Jarring the field slightly further off its materialist moorings, my approach incorporates concerns from work on the interplay of culture, economy, and materialism in the construction of commodity ‘‘cultures’’ (Jackson, 1999, 2002; Crang, Dwyer, & Jackson, 2003; See also Sayer, 2003), ‘‘circuits’’ (C”
Uneven Geographies of Organizational Practice: Explaining the Cross-National Transfer and Diffusion of ISO 9000 (2005, background): “Previous casestudy research suggested that these mechanisms are important vehicles for the diffusion of new ideas, knowledge, and practices (Hughes 2000; Potter, Moore, and Spires 2002), and there is little to suggest that they have not also been influential in the geographic spread of ISO 9000.”
Understanding and (dis)trusting food assurance schemes: Consumer confidence and the ‘knowledge fix’ (2008, background): “Certification is beginning to be researched in the literature, but predominantly from the standpoint of farming and food production (e.g. Guthman, 2004; Mutersbaugh, 2002; Mutersbaugh et al., 2005; Klooster, 2005; Hughes, 2000).”
The Internationalisation/Globalisation of Retailing: Towards an Economic – Geographical Research Agenda (2004, background): “Two recent studies are indicative of how this kind of work might proceed (see also Hughes, 2000).”
From beginnings and endings to boundaries and edges: rethinking circulation and exchange through electronic waste (2011, background): “Geographers have been at the forefront of the critique, suggesting that these frameworks lead to understandings of economic activity that are overly economistic, linear and unidirectional (e.g. Leslie and Reimer 1999; Hughes 2000).”
Economic Geographies: Circuits, Flows and Spaces (2005, background): “By the start of the twentyfirst century, the range of commodities present in homes in the late modern world had expanded enormously, from diverse consumer durables and ‘white goods’ to cut flowers (Hughes, 2000).”
Changing Governance Patterns in the Trade in Fresh Vegetables between Africa and the United Kingdom (2004, background): “Similarly, Hughes (2000) describes how UK supermarkets used designers and consumer magazines to shape consumer preferences for flowers.”