Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa

By S. Ponte. 2008

283 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

1. Chris Bacon
2. V. E. Méndez
3. A. Loconto
4. S. Bush
5. Frank Wijen
6. Arthur P. J. Mol
7. P. Oosterveer
8. Megan Bailey

In Plant Science

1. Chris Bacon
2. V. E. Méndez
3. Arthur P. J. Mol
4. S. Bush
5. S. Ponte
6. P. Oosterveer
7. Megan Bailey
8. Frank Wijen

In Strategy and Management

1. Chris Bacon
2. S. Ponte
3. P. Oosterveer
4. Arthur P. J. Mol
5. V. E. Méndez
6. A. Loconto
7. S. Bush
8. Megan Bailey

Citations in the corpus

• Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy (2010, background): “Case studies of ethical and environmental standards show that these conformity assessment systems themselves have been created on political and/or moral premises, which makes politics fundamental to the exchange process (e.g. Freidberg, 2004; Mansfield, 2004; Ponte, 2008; Raynolds, 2000).”
• From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification (2016, background): “For example in South Africa, sustainable fisheries certification was found to be appropriated by white-owned fishing groups, who maintained market control and excluded black-owned companies (Ponte, 2008).”
• A qualitative meta-synthesis of the benefits of eco-labeling in developing countries (2016, background): “Yes Mexico Unpublished Include MSC Case Studies: STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 Author, date False Positive Quantitative Illustrative Qualitative Ex-post?”
• Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “One example of large context variety is the case of small, data-deficient fisheries in developing countries, calling for a different niche sustainability standard than the large, datamunificent cooperatives that the Marine Stewardship Council presently certifies (Ponte, 2008).”
• A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems (2011, background): “…Table 4 shows that Fair Trade, organic, and the Smithsonian’s Bird Friendly certification programs have first sought to partner with small-scale farmers and their collective organizations, while Rainforest Alliance and Utz Certified started by certifying large-scale coffee plantations (Ponte 2008).”
• Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “A smaller group (Foley, 2012; Ponte, 2008; Vandergeest and Unno, 2012) also argues that the impact of certification needs to be understood within the wider political economy they operate in, seeing support and resistance related to sovereignty and nationalism, as well as reflecting the growing power”
• Voluntary standards, expert knowledge and the governance of sustainability networks (2013, unknown): “Convention theory is useful for understanding the ‘normative work’ behind standard formation and management (Ponte 2008, drawing on Boltanski and Thévenot 2006; Ponte and Gibbon 2005).”
• ‘Roundtabling’ sustainability: Lessons from the biofuel industry (2014, background): “of lack of substantial competitors, MSC has taken only minor revisions in its governance structure, remains more top-down and less inclusive than FSC and discriminates in practice against Southern fisheries (Ponte 2008).”
• ‘Black Economic Empowerment’, Business and the State in South Africa (2007, background): “This codification and managerialization of BEE is likely to lead to an increased focus on processes and on system compliance, rather than on overall objectives — as other experiences in standardization and certification of social and environmental concerns suggest (see, among others, Klooster, 2005;”