Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality: lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa

Hughes, Alexandra; McEwan, Cheryl; Bek, David

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“…Hughes et al, 2013;Dauvergne and Lister, 2012), the recent uptake of product and service carbon footprinting has expanded carbon counting beyond individual iconic emissions to the mundane sites of everyday production and consumption. Here, in an attempt to create a large-scale movement in low carbon commodity and services consumption, global retailers and household brand names have sought to establish a universally accepted and commonly understood measure of the carbon footprint of products across their lifecycle.…”

Section: Moving From 'Iconic' To 'Everyday' Carbonmentioning

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A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e

Ormond

Goodman

2015

Global Environmental Change

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Section: Moving From 'Iconic' To 'Everyday' Carbonmentioning

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A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e

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Goodman

2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…Industryspecific CSR Economic Geography and Journal of Business Ethics (Hughes, 2005;Jones et al, 2005;Hughes et al, 2013).…”

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Industry-specific CSR: analysis of 20 years of research

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emeraldsrm:239791 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this study is to analyze the literature on industry-specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Design/methodology/approach -Using a multiple-keyword search, the authors identified 302 articles reporting on such practices, published in 99 different academic journals between 1995 and 2014. These articles were analyzed to map the CSR literature, identify which industries have been under greater scrutiny and distinguish trends in the most researched industries. Findings -The authors' findings indicate that the CSR studies are very unevenly distributed and that the issues studied and the methods used vary widely across industries. The authors also map this field of study and propose suggestions on where research on industry-specific CSR should go in the future. Originality/value -The first extensive, systematic analysis of the industry-specific CSR literature is provided. The current research adds value to the literature by highlighting the key issues investigated, as well as those that require further inquiry.

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“…A second line of enquiry examines the effects of 'mainstreaming' on ethical producers (e.g. Freidberg, 2003Freidberg, , 2004Low & Davenport, 2005;Raynolds, 2009;Doherty et al 2013;Hughes et al 2013). Whilst the majority of contributions continue to identify ethical with ethical production, and position their accounts within commodity chain analyses, others consider the consumption of ethical commodities by consumers living in the Global North (e.g.…”

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“…This shifts debate about mainstreaming away from its current primary focus on singular commodities and its effects on producers (Section 2) and towards the retail brand (Hughes et al 2013). Critically it shifts attention to Southern retail brands and to the heterogeneity of retail capital in the South.…”

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“…A smaller body of work addresses ethical consumption in the Global North. It has examined ethical retailing (Hughes et al 2013), pointed to the importance of celebrity marketing in promoting Fair Trade products (Goodman, 2010), and positioned ethical consumption as political consumption, that is, as an effect of strategic interventions of key agents and intermediaries (Barnett et al 2011). In all this work an imaginary of Northern consumers and Southern producers prevails, and in Barnett et al's work forms the basis for thinking ethical consumption through a politics of global responsibility.…”

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Making space for ethical consumption in the South

Gregson

Ferdous

2015

Geoforum

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract: This paper argues that, given the rapid growth in the middle classes across the Global South, debates about ethical consumption need to be reconfigured to admit these middle classes, not as a problem but as a possibility. It establishes the potential to constitute Southern consumption as a surface of mobilisation for ethical consumption and, through working from the specificities of the South in Bangladesh, demonstrates how within-South framings unsettle and challenge existing NorthSouth understandings of ethical consumption. The paper makes three specific contributions.(1) It shows how North-South conceptual understandings of ethical consumption as political consumption might be reworked to admit the South. (2) Through an examination of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh it demonstrates the absence of a politics of consumer responsibility amongst the Bangladeshi middle classes, and suggests how a politics of responsibility might be forged, through paying attention to Southern brands and supply chains. (3) Through an examination of the Aarong retail brand of the corporate NGO BRAC, the paper shows that ethical consumption exists in Bangladesh, not as ethical consumption but as ordinary consumption with ethical effects. The paper concludes by considering the wider implications of these findings for furthering academic and practitioner debate.

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Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality: lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 57 publications

A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e

A new regime of carbon counting: The practices and politics of accounting for everyday carbon through CO2e

Industry-specific CSR: analysis of 20 years of research

Making space for ethical consumption in the South

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