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1. Are Certified Supply Chains More Socially Sustainable ? A Bargaining Power Analysis

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Orachos Napasintuwong, Mario Veneziani, Jose Maria Gil, Michael J. Böhm, Michele Donati, Bojan Ristic, Peter Csillag, Valentin Bellassen, Zaklina Stojanovic, Áron Török, Lisa Gauvrit, Marion Drut, Paul Muller, Viet Hoang, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Efthimia Tsakiridou, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Hugo Ferrer-Pérez, An Nguyen, Konstadinos Mattas, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux (CESAER), AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ECOZEPT, Freising, Germany, Corvinus University of Budapest, ECO-SENSUS Research and Communication Non-profit Ltd, Hungary, Partenaires INRAE, University of Parma = Università degli studi di Parma [Parme, Italie], CREDA - Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentaris (CREDA), Ecozept, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Kasetsart University - KU (THAILAND), Kasetsart University (KU), University of Belgrade [Belgrade], This paper is a research output of the Strength2Food project which was funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, European Project: 678024,H2020,H2020-SFS-2015-2,Strength2Food(2016), Centre for Agro-Food Economy & Development, UPC-IRTA, Castelldefels, Spain (CREDA), Université polytechnique de Catalogne (UPC), School of Economics, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam, Faculty of Biology [Warsaw], University of Warsaw (UW), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Agroalimentària i Biotecnologia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CREDA - Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentari, AgroParisTech-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), and Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR)

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Supply chain, Social sustainability, Distribution (economics), Certification, Institutions, Market power, Aliments--Abastament, Transactional leadership, 0502 economics and business, 2. Zero hunger, Transaction cost, Transaction costs, business.industry, 05 social sciences, social, Enginyeria agroalimentària::Indústries agroalimentàries [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Environmental economics, [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, General Business, Management and Accounting, Bargaining power, Sustainability indicator, Social sustainability indicator, Agrotech, 050202 agricultural economics & policy, business, Food supply--Economic aspects, 050203 business & management, Food Science
Abstract

Food quality schemes (FQS: organic and geographical indication products) are often supposed to be more sustainable by their political advocates. We explore the social sustainability advantage of FQS through the lens of supply chains’ bargaining power (BP) distribution. We propose an indicator synthesizing different sources underlying BP (competition-based, transactional, institutional) and counting two dimensions (fair BP distribution and adaptation capacity), that we apply to 18 FQS supply chains and corresponding reference. FQS perform better than their reference products on both dimensions. This better performance is due to a combination of sources. Objectius de Desenvolupament Sostenible::12 - Producció i Consum Responsables

Published
2021

2. From God to Markets. An Analysis of the Meaning Work of Boundary Actors During the 'Mainstreaming' of Socially Responsible Investment

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Afshin Mehrpouya, Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC (GREGH), Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HEC Paris Research Paper Series, and Haldemann, Antoine

Subjects
framing, business.industry, meaning, Mainstreaming, Public relations, socially responsible investment, field, Framing (social sciences), Qualitative analysis, Socially responsible investment, social movements, Political science, Political economy, institutions, [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, Institutional analysis, [SHS.GESTION] Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration, business, Social movement
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Meaning work is a key category of institutional work, which aims at maintaining or changing of field-level meanings. Mobilizing institutional analysis of field level change processes and the social movement framing literature, this study conceptualizes the types of meaning work that actor at the boundary of a social movement and the incumbent field undertake in the process of “mainstreaming”. Mainstreaming in this paper is defined as a process whereby a social movement succeeds in diffusing its norms, values or practices across the wider incumbent field. During the past few decades, socially responsible investment (SRI) has shifted from being a marginal, religious, mostly US-based movement to an influential international movement, which has succeeded in mobilizing a large number of incumbent investors and financial organizations. Based on a multi-stage qualitative analysis of the SRI field during the past 50 years, this study first establishes the structural changes that define a field undergoing mainstreaming. It then introduces propositions regarding links between these field-level changes and the meaning work that actors at the boundary between a social movement and the incumbent field undertake.

Published
2014