| Titre |
Fair Trade Intermediaries and Social Accounting : The Case of Assisi Organics |
| Titre traduit |
Intermédiaires du commerce équitable et responsabilité sociale : Le cas des produits bio Assisi |
| Lien hypertexte |
Site de researchgate.net |
| Auteur |
REEL, Darryl ; MCMURTRY, John-Justin Mcmurtry ; MUKHERJEE, Ananya |
| Date |
2012 |
| Pagination ou Durée d'écoute |
24 p. |
| Notes |
Shiv Nadar University (Uttar Pradesh, India) ; York University (Canada)
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| Résumé |
"Recent work has highlighted the importance of social accounting (SA) for social economy (SE) actors in a range of sectors. Another realm of SE activity into which SA could be fruitfully extended is certified fair trade (FT) products. The adoption of SA by individual FT organizations would seem to be a relatively straight forward task, although it would probably have to involve a range of tools targeted at different stakeholder groups. FT, however, is a complex practice that is characterized more by the relationships between organizations than just the activities of single organizations. The more involved these relationships get, especially as value chains become longer, the more complicated it becomes to incorporate SA into FT, especially with relation to actors in the middle of the chains. This chapter examines the case of one such FT intermediary, Assisi Organics, a garment manufacturer in the India state of Tamil Nadu, and highlights the challenges and importance of incorporating the role of such intermediaries in the analysis of the realization of social value added in FT value chains. The chapter begins with an extended introduction to the practice of FT before going on to examine the particular problems of social accounting that arise among intermediaries in FT value chains."
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