Author: Virginie Diaz Pedregal Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan ISBN: 2296166741 Category : Social Science Languages : fr Pages : 268
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Depuis une quinzaine d'années, le commerce équitable s'est fortement développé, tant au niveau de sa notoriété que de ses volumes de vente. Les filières se multiplient, les produits se diversifient et les acteurs se réclamant de la mouvance émergent de toutes parts. Pour appréhender ce fait social dans sa totalité, il importe de revenir sur la contruction idéologique du phénomène. Cet ouvrage retrace l'historique du mouvement et fait le point sur les différents courants du commerce équitable en France.
Author: Philip Balsiger Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317031784 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 200
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From consumer boycotts and buycotts to social movement campaigns, examples of individual and collective actors forging political struggles on markets are manifold. The clothing market has been a privileged site for such contention, with global clothing brands and retailers being targets of consumer mobilization for the past 20 years. Labels and product lines now attest for the ethical quality of clothes, which has, in turn, given rise to ethical fashion. The Fight for Ethical Fashion unveils the actors and processes that have driven this market transformation through a detailed study of the Europe-wide coordinated campaign on workers’ rights in the global textile industry - the Clean Clothes Campaign. Drawing on insights from qualitative fieldwork using a wide range of empirical sources, Philip Balsiger traces the emergence of this campaign back to the rise of ’consumer campaigns’ and shows how tactics were adapted to market contexts in order to have retailers adopt and monitor codes of conduct. By comparing the interactions between campaigners and their corporate targets in Switzerland and France (two countries with a very different history of consumer mobilization for political issues), this ground-breaking book also reveals how one campaign can provoke contrasting reactions and forms of market change.
Author: Ndongo Sylla Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821444891 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
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This critical account of the fair trade movement explores the vast gap between the rhetoric of fair trade and its practical results for poor countries, particularly those of Africa. In the Global North, fair trade often is described as a revolutionary tool for transforming the lives of millions across the globe. The growth in sales for fair trade products has been dramatic in recent years, but most of the benefit has accrued to the already wealthy merchandisers at the top of the value chain rather than to the poor producers at the bottom. Ndongo Sylla has worked for Fairtrade International and offers an insider’s view of how fair trade improves—or doesn’t—the lot of the world’s poorest. His methodological framework first describes the hypotheses on which the fair trade movement is grounded before going on to examine critically the claims made by its proponents. By distinguishing local impact from global impact, Sylla exposes the inequity built into the system and the resulting misallocation of the fair trade premium paid by consumers. The Fair Trade Scandal is an empirically based critique of both fair trade and traditional free trade; it is the more important for exploring the problems of both from the perspective of the peoples of the Global South, the ostensible beneficiaries of the fair trade system.
Author: Benjamin Huybrechts Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136330313 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 262
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For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for disadvantaged producer groups in the South. Starting from a niche market aimed at convinced customers, FT has expanded and entered mainstream retailing outlets, growing in visibility and market share, while simultaneously experiencing diversification of its organization models. While pioneer Fair Trade Social Enterprises in the early years were largely nonprofit organizations relying on voluntary work, they have become increasingly diversified in terms of legal forms, governance models and organizational practices. These diversified models seem to reflect the hybrid nature of FT itself, through different ways of combining a commercial activity (trading of FT products), a social mission (support to producers), and an explicit or implicit political message (often expressed through education and advocacy). Based on the study of Fair Trade Social Enterprises across Europe, this book builds a typology of organization models for FT. Author Benjamin Huybrechts further examines how the different organization models combine the economic, social, and political dimensions of FT, and how they manage the possible tensions between these dimensions. Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise proposes a range of theoretical approaches to interpret the diversity of Fair Trade Social Enterprises and offers concrete avenues for managing social enterprises and hybrid organizations in general.
Author: Nabil Sultan Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443830232 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 330
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This book illustrates the application of ethical thinking to business, management and computing. The authors are not professional philosophers but lecturers, researchers and practitioners based at Liverpool Hope University (LHU) and other international institutes, who have a particular approach that will appeal to pedagogic and scholarly interests as well as to more general readers. Some of the authors are faculty colleagues at LHU, others are directly or indirectly connected with it through teaching and/or research cooperation. At LHU the ethical dimension runs through every aspect of its corporate life; it is embodied in its corporate mission statement that gives its teaching and research a special flavour, touching other people’s lives and professional practice. This book brings together some significant areas of leading edge research and scholarship in the context of engagement with communities of practice, locally, regionally and professionally, with international students, police, teachers, housing managers, ambulance workers, etc. Most of the chapters are based on the practical experience of the contributors but written in an accessible way. There is a strong intercultural and transnational flavour in this book. It is explicitly cross-disciplinary, and will appeal to readers from areas like organization analysis, computer studies and information systems as well as philosophy and ethics.
Author: Jonathan Michie Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191507997 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 772
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The Oxford Handbook of Mutuals and Co-Owned Business investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly societies, credit unions, solidarity organizations, mutual insurance companies, or employee-owned companies. Such organizations can be owned by their consumers, the producers, or the employees - whether through single-stakeholder or multi-stakeholder ownership. This complex set of organizations is named differently across countries: from 'mutual' in the UK, to 'solidarity cooperatives' in Latin America. In some countries, such organizations are not even officially recognized and thus lack a specific denomination. For the sake of clarity, this Handbook will refer to member-owned organizations to encompass the variety of non-investor-owned organizations, and in the national case study chapters the terms used will be those most widely employed in that country. These alternative corporate forms have emerged in a variety of economic sectors in almost all advanced economies since the time of the industrial revolution and the development of capitalism, through the subsequent creation and dominance of the limited liability company. Until recently, these organizations were generally regarded as a rather marginal component of the economy. However, over the past few years, member-owned organizations have come to be seen in some countries, at least, as potentially attractive in light of their ability to tackle various economic and social concerns, and their relative resilience during the financial and economic crises of 2007-2013.
Author: Marie-France Turcotte Publisher: Puq ISBN: 9782760525931 Category : Business ethics Languages : fr Pages : 224
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Le commerce équitable se veut un outil à la fois de développement des conditions des producteurs marginalisés du Sud et de conscientisation des consommateurs. Pour instaurer des changements institutionnels concrets, ce mouvement doit toutefois s'insérer dans ce marché conventionnel qu'il souhaite tant transformer, risquant de ne plus représenter alors qu'une offre de niche parmi d'autres. Comment compose-t-il donc avec ce double objectif social et économique ? L'ouvrage expose les succès et les difficultés liés à la mise en oeuvre du commerce équitable, de même que les tensions qu'engendre l'utilisation des mécanismes de mise en marché pour promouvoir la cause. Ses auteurs, en portant un regard réflexif fondé sur plusieurs disciplines, dont la gestion et la sociologie, mettent en lumière les défis de ce phénomène et les avenues prometteuses à explorer.
Author: Jean-Pierre Doussin Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF ISBN: 9782130571315 Category : Languages : fr Pages : 126
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" Le commerce, pas la charité ", ce fut la recommandation de la conférence des Nation Unies pour le commerce et le développement dès sa première réunion, en 1964. Le commerce équitable s'est progressivement bâti sur cette idée : faire du commerce un instrument de développement au service des populations défavorisées des pays du Sud devenant ainsi autonomes et maîtresses de leur destin. Le concept fait son chemin : l'utopie de départ fait place maintenant à une réalité de plus en plus forte. Pour autant, si cette idée est d'une simplicité lumineuse, sa réalisation ne l'est pas nécessairement. Diverses approches se rencontrent, des conceptions doctrinales s'affrontent, parfois durement. Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse et une mise en perspective de ce qu'est le commerce équitable.
Author: Vivien Blanchet Publisher: Editions Quae ISBN: 2759217930 Category : Business & Economics Languages : fr Pages : 266
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Le commerce équitable est à la mode et a connu un développement fulgurant. Qu’est-il ? D’où vient-il ? Où va-t-il ? Cet ouvrage vise à répondre à ces grandes questions en dressant l’état de l’art des recherches universitaires menées sur le commerce équitable depuis une quinzaine d’années. Chaque contribution prend en compte les différents courants du commerce équitable, et s’appuie sur les prises de positions des acteurs. Cet ouvrage porte un regard pluridisciplinaire sur le commerce équitable : les analyses empruntent à la sociologie et à l’anthropologie, aux sciences politiques et au droit, à l’économie et aux sciences du management. La multiplication des regards permet de restituer chaque entrée de ce dictionnaire dans son ensemble et sa diversité. Il offre au lecteur une attrayante synthèse de la littérature scientifique sur le sujet et se veut un ouvrage de référence sur le commerce équitable. Entre les entrées, des renvois permettent de naviguer dans le dédale du commerce équitable (équité, prix juste, certification, producteurs,....). Le lecteur pressé pourra, lui, se satisfaire d’une synthèse des recherches scientifiques sur tel ou tel enjeu du commerce équitable. L’ensemble du dictionnaire est documenté de façon rigoureuse, les références bibliographiques étant regroupées en fin d’ouvrage. Écrit par des spécialistes, cet ouvrage s’adresse tout autant aux chercheurs désireux d’étudier le phénomène, qu’aux étudiants en sciences sociales ou qu’aux militants, entrepreneurs et citoyens s’interrogeant sur l’équité dans les relations commerciales.
Author: Virginie Diaz Pedregal
Author: Philip Balsiger
Author: Ndongo Sylla
Author: Benjamin Huybrechts
Author: Arnaut Billy
Author: Nabil Sultan
Author: Jonathan Michie
Author: Marie-France Turcotte
Author: Jean-Pierre Doussin
Author: Vivien Blanchet