Global fair trade: Humanizing globalization and reintroducing the normative to international political economy

Asymmetries and opportunities: Power and inequality in Fairtrade wine global production networks

“…Through the empirics, practices emerged that are counter to the achievement of empowerment, fairness and sustainability and, while these are only isolated case studies and their generalisability cannot be confirmed, I would argue that even the presence of a few instances of unfair trading practices, disempowering outcomes and unsustainable relations serves to negatively impact on the system as a whole. Practices of conventionalisation, highlighted here in terms of market and system relationships, demonstrate continuing asymmetries in terms of market, social and political power, which emphasise the flexibility and contingency to the normative foundations of any GPN (Archer & Fritsch, ). Fairtrade has had its successes in the empirical cases discussed here, but vulnerabilities persist and evolve.…”

“…Understanding the multiscalar and dynamic Fairtrade GPN requires a recognition that economic relations are ultimately social relations (Archer & Fritsch, ). Indeed, Archer and Fritsch argue that, through Fairtrade, “global economic relations … have been shrunk to local social relations” (2010, p. 121), and this relational politics of place encourages a recognition of our “responsibility towards the wider relations on which we depend” (Massey, , p. 17). Nonetheless, while a GPN lens provides “insights into the complexity of commercial‐social inter‐linkages and tensions” (Barrientos, , p. 45), it has rarely been linked with debates on inequalities (Phillips, ).…”

The Accounting and Accountability Practices of Fairtrade International (FLO)

“…The logic of buying Fair Trade products runs contrary to the concept of rational buying behaviour and most efficient resource allocation and represents an anomaly in consumers' buying behaviour (Archer & Fritsch, 2010). Hence researchers suggest that purchasing a Fair Trade product is a political decision whereby consumers vote for doing ethical business (Lyon, 2006).…”

“…This surplus adds difficulties in deciding their purpose of reporting and measuring performance (Nicholls, 2009). Considering the complexities in Fair Trade phenomena (Archer & Fritsch, 2010), we embrace Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power to explore how Fairtrade International (FLO) translates its social mission into new forms of accounting and disclosures. Extant literatures suggest that Bourdieu's theory, especially the notions of symbolic power, offers an interesting theoretical insights of the organisational actions (Emirbayer & Johnson, 2008;Everett, 2002) and provides a useful framework to explore alternative approaches of accountability (Shenkin and Coulson (2007).…”

Nuevas Perspectivas De La Gobernanza Privada: Un Análisis Desde Las Prácticas De Responsabilidad Social Y Ambiental De Las Empresas en Colombia

“…al., 2016;Aguinis & Glavas: 2012;Kuhlman & Farrington, 2010;Yilmaz & Flouris, 2010). Con respecto a la manera como las estrategias de gestión de las empresas terminan por constituirse en una regulación autónoma para las empresas, es notorio que los mismos surgen de acuerdos de productividad y no necesariamente generan cambios en la manera de producir y promover el consumo Archer & Fritsch (2010);Muller, Et. Al (2013); Wijen (2014); Eberlein, et.…”