Purpose: Corporate social responsibility is becoming more and more important for the firms from developed countries. The main purpose of this research paper is to examine empirically the role of fair trade in developing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to find out the dynamics of CSR being used in organizations. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative case study research reviews ...

This chapter adopts a phenomenological understanding of ‘place’, as a distinctive coming together of ‘actants’ (humans and their identities, geographical spaces and the material world), thereby imbuing a particular space (more or less bounded or diffuse) with an array of intersubjectively constructed meanings (Agnew 2011). Given that place is therefore socially constructed in the critical reali...

Since the development of assisted reproductive technologies, infertile individuals have crossed borders to obtain treatments unavailable or unaffordable in their own country. Recent media coverage has focused on the outsourcing of surrogacy to developing countries, where the cost for surrogacy is significantly less than the equivalent cost in a more developed country. This paper discusses the e...

This paper uses a heterogeneous …rms model to scrutinize the alleged aim of Fair Trade to help the most disadvantaged producers in developing countries. Incorporating important aspects of Fair Trade in a two-good heterogeneous …rm model we show that the more productive …rms will join Fair Trade arrangements. Presuming that the least advantaged producers are those with lowest productivity, it th...

Fair Trade attempts to address the poverty issues of small Southern producers through the payment of a 'fair price' for their goods and the provision of support services for producer organisations. Although Fair Trade is overwhelmingly identified with the 'fair price' paid by participating importers and buyers, sketching the possible avenues of impact reveal that many of the effects of Fair Tra...