The NGO-Industrial Complex

By Gary Gereffi, Ronie Garcia-Johnson, E. Sasser. 2001

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Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks (2002, background): “…proliferating voluntary certification initiatives which seek to internationally regulate ecological and production conditions in commodities such as organic foods, marine products, flowers, timber, apparel, footwear, and textiles (Barrientos 2000; Raynolds 2000; Gereffi et al. 2001; Hughes 2001).”
Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “Although there may well be some altruistic cases, the current trend towards explicit corporate social responsibility policies among TNCs (Gereffi et al., 2001; Dicken, 2007; Hughes et al., this issue; van Tulder and van der Zwart, 2006) is largely the result of such pressures.”
Global Private Regulation and Value-Chain Restructuring in Indonesian Smallholder Coffee Systems (2008, background): “There also appear to be considerable corporate benefits gained through pre-empting formal regulation and freeing business fromgovernment intervention (as suggested elsewhere by Gereffi et al. (2001) & O’Rourke (2006)).”
Keeping trade fair: governance challenges in the fair trade coffee initiative (2005, background): “…for raising this point. anisms such as fair trade are also regulatory mechanisms that establish voluntary alternative rules and procedures for governing production, commercialization and consumption of certain commodities in a global market system (Ribot, 2004; Gereffi et al., 2001, p. 64).”
Social and environmental attributes of food products in an emerging mass market: Challenges of signaling and consumer perception, with European illustrations (2006, background): “The principal actors in the ethical trade movement are still the NGOs and companies themselves (Gereffi et al., 2001).”
Private Global Business Regulation (2008, background): “The first and most important is pressure from NGOs, who have become “highly sophisticated in using marketcampaigning technique to gain leverage over recalcitrant firms” (Gereffi et al. 2001, p. 64).”
Fair trade coffee: building producer capacity via global networks (2004, background): “Fair Trade, like environmental certification in organic, forest and marine products and labor standard certification in apparel, footwear, textiles and flowers, involves the implementation of voluntary global production standards (see Barrientos, 2000; Blowfield, 1999; Gereffi et al., 2001; Hughes”
Multinational corporations’ economic and human rights impacts on developing countries: a review and research agenda (2014, background): “Thanks to increased human rights activism and greater media scrutiny corporations are beginning to accept responsibility for the labour practices and human rights abuses associated with their operations (Spar 1998, 2003; Gereffi et al., 2001).”
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks (2004, background): “These conclusions appear to apply also to proliferating certification systems in the international trade of marine products, timber, flowers, apparel, footwear, textiles, and other items (Barrientos, 2000; Gereffi, Garcia-Johnson, & Sasser, 2001; Hughes, 2001).”