Fair Trade Organizations And Social Enterprise

Download Fair Trade Organizations And Social Enterprise full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Fair Trade Organizations And Social Enterprise ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise

Author : Benjamin Huybrechts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136330313
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise by : Benjamin Huybrechts

Download or read book Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise written by Benjamin Huybrechts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (794 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise by :

Download or read book Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Management for Social Enterprise

Author : Bob Doherty
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026887
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Management for Social Enterprise by : Bob Doherty

Download or read book Management for Social Enterprise written by Bob Doherty and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Management for Social Enterprise is a great introduction to the rich variety of social enterprises in the UK. It is also a useful tool to help us to build more effective social enterprises that really deliver on their missions by people who have hands on experience. This is just what the rapidly growing social enterprise sector needs, a management manual to help us take social enterprises to the next level by people who have hands on experience′ - Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director of Divine Chocolate Ltd and Cabinet Office sponsored Social Enterprise Ambassador `The recent explosive growth in the number of social enterprises, their diverse and dynamic nature, and the upsurge in research about them all makes this a potentially bewildering field of knowledge to explore. This book provides a clear and timely guide to the management challenges involved in understanding and running social enterprises, and underlines why their unique nature requires something more than just standard business school wisdom′ - Ken Peattie, Professor of Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff Business School, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society `Provides a good introduction to the management of social enterprises touching on a broad range of topics and will help those invovled in managing social enterprises and those trying to understand more about the sector. It draws on the experience of those who have worked in the social enterprise sector in a range of countries and are passionate about developing it′ - Fergus Lyon, Professor of Enterprise and Organizations, Middlesex University Overviewing the key business topics required by social entrepreneurs, and managers in social enterprises Management for Social Enterprise covers strategy, finance, ethics, social accounting, marketing and people management. Written in direct, accessible language by a team of authors currently teaching and researching in this sector, each chapter is fully supported with learning resources. Chapters include brief overviews, further reading, suggested web resources and, importantly, international case studies, drawing on real-life business examples. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise, but will also be of use to anyone with an interest in management, corporate responsibility, ethics or community studies.

Verifying Social Enterprises

Author : Elizabeth Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Verifying Social Enterprises by : Elizabeth Bennett

Download or read book Verifying Social Enterprises written by Elizabeth Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter tells the story of Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island, a support organization for social enterprises. SVPRI's stakeholders requested assistance in marketing and growth, and SVPRI and its consulting firm, New Commons, responded by developing a label that qualifying stakeholders could use to verify their work as a social enterprise. In preparation for developing standards and creating a verification process for their label, the SVPRI/New Commons team convened stakeholder focus groups, researched extant social enterprise certifications, and studied the history of Fairtrade certification. This chapter describes these investigations, their findings, and the resulting Buy with HeartTM verification process. The authors posit that organizational form is irrelevant, and that - contrary to conventional theory and traditional practice - both for- and non-profit social enterprises can be held to the same standards of prioritizing social impact. They also argue for peer-verified certification, as opposed to self-certifications, which lack accountability, or third-party auditing, which does less to foster a practitioners' community. This chapter speaks to the literature on voluntary certifications, social enterprise definition, and multi-stakeholder decision making.

Social Responsibility in the Global Market

Author : Mary Ann Littrell
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452264619
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Responsibility in the Global Market by : Mary Ann Littrell

Download or read book Social Responsibility in the Global Market written by Mary Ann Littrell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unfolds rather like a good novel; it is compelling and convincing. The authors approach their topic with a great deal of background and superb organizational abilities. As the premise unwinds, readers are provided with excellent explanation and justification, as well as real-life accounts of people and their experiences. As a side benefit, the book also yields an admirable example of well-done qualitative case studies that are triangulated effectively with survey methods. --Sara U. Douglas, University of Illinois Social Responsibility in the Global Market illuminates an alternative way of conducting business that bridges the consumer′s social concerns and the producer′s financial concern through a compatible, nonexploitive, and humanizing system of fair trade. In-depth case studies introduce past successes and failures for seven Alternative Trading Organizations (ATOs) as they foster artisan empowerment, cultural integrity, and business sustainability. An integrative model synthesizes business conditions, tasks, and skills imperative for effective functioning of a fair trade system in an increasingly competitive global market. Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson′s treatment of ATOs provides useful insights for academics in marketing, international development, entrepreneurship, and anthropology. In addition, this book offers practical finance for practitioners in international development, socially responsible businesses, and consumers concerned about impacts of their marketplace decisions.

Fair Trade

Author : Alex Nicholls
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446233359
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fair Trade by : Alex Nicholls

Download or read book Fair Trade written by Alex Nicholls and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′Today, Fair Trade finds itself at a crucial point in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to a mainstream economic model. As the only certifier in the largest Fair Trade market in the world, TransFair USA has observed the explosive growth in consumer awareness and business interest in Fair Trade certification. New research into the progress of Fair Trade to date and, crucially, its key future directions is urgently needed. Fair Trade is therefore a valuable and timely contribution.The range and depth of the book is considerable. It is international in outlook and engages with a broad spectrum of theory and thinking. Its style is approachable yet rigorous. I would strongly recommend it to industry, academics, students, policy-makers and the interested reader in general′ - Paul Rice, CEO, TransFair USA ′This work - a powerful study of the maelstrom of issues and cross currents in the Fair Trade and Development movements is long overdue. Through case studies, quantative analysis and reasoned arguement, this work makes its case with cogent force′ - Hamish Renton, Product Manager Food You Can Trust, Tesco ′With the fair trade sector growing rapidly, it is vital that the concept is understood properly and the future potential mapped out. Fair Trade provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of fair trade which make it a "must read" for everyone from casual buyer right through to seasoned producer. Here′s your chance to see how you can easily change the world for the better′ - Mel Young, editor-in-chief, New Consumer, Britain′s only fair trade magazine, www.newconsumer.org. Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. This timely and thoughtful book looks at the strategic future for Fair Trade. Each chapter spearheads a key area of Fair Trade thinking and theory and the political, legal and economic context of Fair Trade is given careful scrutiny. Difficult questions are tackled such as `What is the role and value of corporate social responsibility?′ and `What is the brand meaning of Fair Trade?′ Throughout, readers are supported by: - Revealing case studies and useful data analysis; - Concise histories of different Fair Trade organisations; - Chapter summaries and conclusions.

Handbook of Research on Fair Trade

Author : Laura T. Raynolds
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783474629
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Fair Trade by : Laura T. Raynolds

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Fair Trade written by Laura T. Raynolds and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair trade critiques the historical inequalities inherent in international trade and seeks to promote social justice by creating alternative networks linking marginalized producers (typically in the global South) with progressive consumers (typically i

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law

Author : Benjamin Means
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316946932
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law by : Benjamin Means

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law written by Benjamin Means and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing numbers of employees, consumers, and investors want companies to be truly good; these stakeholders will accept lower economic returns in order to support companies that prioritize sustainability, fair wages, and fair trade. Unlike charities or non-profit organizations, such companies - or social enterprises - are not only permitted but also expected to produce an economic return for investors. Yet, unlike traditional business ventures, social enterprises have no obligation to maximize profits, even on a long-term basis. In this comprehensive volume, Benjamin Means and Joseph W. Yockey bring together leading legal scholars and practitioners to offer an authoritative guide to social enterprise law and policy. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law takes stock of the field and charts a course for its future development. It should be read by entrepreneurs, investors, practitioners, academics, students and anyone else interested in how companies are evolving to address new demands for capitalism with a conscience.

Changing Big Business

Author : Anna Hutchens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848447353
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Changing Big Business by : Anna Hutchens

Download or read book Changing Big Business written by Anna Hutchens and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and valuable contribution both to our understanding of fair trade and the broader context in which it operates. Dr Hutchens develops an exciting new theory and presents extensive original empirical work to construct a rigorous and, at times, challenging argument concerning the limits and opportunities for the fair trade movement going forward. Alex Nicholls, University of Oxford, UK Drawing on candid accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this informative and proactive volume investigates the challenges facing today s fair trade movement and provides unique insights into the workings of social and economic power in world markets. Using original, in-depth empirical data, Anna Hutchens develops several new approaches to understanding power, governance and social change across the broad interdisciplinary fields of development, economics and politics. Emphasising fair trade s entrepreneurs, this book investigates the creation of innovative commercial fair trade business models that are often neglected in fair trade research but are crucial to the fair trade movement s survival in commercial markets. As corporate involvement in fair trade markets grows, these models will be the key variable for the sustainability of fair trade into the future. This book will be warmly welcomed by academics in the fields of economics, political science and sociology working on free trade and fair trade. International non-government organisations, such as Oxfam, and international fair trade networks will find this book invaluable. Government officials (particularly in the EU Commission and parliamentarians) working on fair trade and/or trade-and-development policy and analysis will also find this book of particular interest.

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation

Author : Guillermo C. Jimenez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Good Corporation, Bad Corporation by : Guillermo C. Jimenez

Download or read book Good Corporation, Bad Corporation written by Guillermo C. Jimenez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study"--Provided by publisher.

The Economics of Social Responsibility

Author : Carlo Borzaga
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136966536
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Economics of Social Responsibility by : Carlo Borzaga

Download or read book The Economics of Social Responsibility written by Carlo Borzaga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration, microfinance, and fair trade, and show how these enterprises form the hub of an emerging economy of social responsibility. The book provides a new interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives of their members. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, professionals working in the not-for-profit sector, and scholars interested in socially responsible economics. It is particularly suitable for seminars and workshops focusing on the management of not-for-profit organizations, sustainable development, and globalization.

Social Enterprises

Author : B. Gidron
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035307
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Enterprises by : B. Gidron

Download or read book Social Enterprises written by B. Gidron and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.

The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business

Author : Jonathan Michie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191507997
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business by : Jonathan Michie

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business written by Jonathan Michie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Scaling the Social Enterprise

Author : Walske, Jennifer M.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788113721
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Scaling the Social Enterprise by : Walske, Jennifer M.

Download or read book Scaling the Social Enterprise written by Walske, Jennifer M. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scaling the Social Enterprise is an ideal text for courses that focus on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, at either the graduate or undergraduate level. Common themes across high growth social startups discussed in the book include: • building and modifying a management team for growth • creating and maintaining a dynamic stakeholder network • choosing corporate form and funders • moving from idea to pilot, to roll-out, and pivots along the way • the importance of media magic in building a brand • developing and refining one’s value chain • the pivotal role of technology in scaling Featuring high profile, high growth social startups including Fair Trade USA, Revolution Foods, Sanergy, Kiva, d.light, Back to the Roots, and Grameen America, the chapter on funding social startups also profiles social funders such as Bridges Fund Management and Better Ventures, amongst others.

Fair Trade in CSR Strategy of Global Retailers

Author : M. Stefanska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137389044
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fair Trade in CSR Strategy of Global Retailers by : M. Stefanska

Download or read book Fair Trade in CSR Strategy of Global Retailers written by M. Stefanska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fair Trade In CSR Strategy of Global Retailers shows how retailers can improve the success of their fair trade strategy. Using Polish market research, the authors analyze the aggressive and detrimental competition between retailers such as Ikea, and Tesco to emphasize the benefits of CSR strategy for stakeholders and society at large.

Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change

Author : I. Hudson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137269855
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change by : I. Hudson

Download or read book Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change written by I. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as a case study of the shift toward non-state forms of governance, they focus on its role not only as a regulatory tool, but as a catalyst for broader social and political transformation.

Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799809463
Total Pages : 2148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources

Download or read book Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 2148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business practices are constantly evolving in order to meet growing customer demands. Evaluating the role of logistics and supply chain management skills or applications is necessary for the success of any organization or business. As market competition becomes more aggressive, it is crucial to evaluate ways in which a business can maintain a strategic edge over competitors. Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that centers on the effective management of risk factors and the implementation of the latest supply management strategies. It also explores the field of digital supply chain optimization and business transformation. Highlighting a range of topics such as inventory management, competitive advantage, and transport management, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business managers, supply chain managers, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students in the field of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research.