Intersectoral partnerships for a sustainable coffee chain: Really addressing sustainability or just picking (coffee) cherries?
By V. Bitzer, M. Francken, Pieter Glasbergen. 2008
212 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management
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- V. Bitzer
- G. Schouten
- S. Manning
- Juliane Reinecke
- P. Newell
- Heike Schroeder
- Arthur P. J. Mol
- P. Oosterveer
Citations in the corpus
- Multiactor Governance and the Environment (2012, background): “Certification: formal approval of certain characteristics of an item, person, or organization following a procedure that may include review, education, assessment, or audit Examples of multiactor governance arrangements in the sustainability realm range from certification initiatives for timber (121”
- The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability (2016, unknown): “The idea of sustainability has been reduced to a set of standards and certifications for managing reputation, quality, and supply chain risk (Bitzer et al., 2008; MacDonald, 2007).”
- Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “For instance, the UTZ Certified standard offers technical advice to farmers on how to increase their productivity and upgrade the quality of their coffee beans (Bitzer et al., 2008; UTZ Certified, 2013).”
- National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains (2012, background): “Much of this has been studied from a global value chain perspective (Bernstein and Cashore, 2007; Bitzer et al., 2008; Muradian and Pelupessy, 2005).”
- Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “Long established questions have been asked about the content and scope of these private standards, as well as their interaction with each other in self-regulating industries and/or sectors (Mutersbaugh, 2005): whether competition leads to a ‘ratcheting up’ as standards seek more stringent quality ou”
- The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains: A new trend in sustainability governance? (2015, background): “Various studies have noted that participation by Northern stakeholders far outweighs, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the participation by Southern stakeholders in standard-setting processes — even when these take place through multi-stakeholder initiatives encompassing a wide range of actors”
- The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry (2012, background): “We therefore challenge the dichotomous view on standards multiplicity as either a ‘source of innovation’ or ‘confusion’ (Bendell, 2005; Fransen, 2011; Gilbert et al., 2011), which eventually initiates a ‘race to the bottom’ (Bitzer et al., 2008).”
- Big brand sustainability: Governance prospects and environmental limits (2012, background): “As Bitzer et al. (2008) find, partnerships to develop a more sustainable coffee chain, despite some notable achievements, are making limited headway within the conventional coffee chain.”