Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise: Social Innovation Through Hybrid Organization Models

ISBN-13: 9781138203082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 244 str.

Benjamin Huybrechts

Opis

This book highlights the diverse organizational avenues through which Fair Trade entrepreneurs may concretely implement the hybrid aims of Fair Trade: making business, impacting small-scale producer groups and achieving systemic social change. Through a study across Europe, this book examines Fair Trade Social Enterprises at the crossroads between civil society and the market.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Diverse and Innovative Organizational Models in a Hybrid Field  1. Fair Trade: A Hybrid Concept and Practice  2. Fair Trade Social Enterprises Worldwide and in Europe  3. Categorizing Hybrid Organizational Models  Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives  4. Theoretical Framework  5. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Efficient Institutional Arrangements  6. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Reflections of Their Environment  7. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Institutional Bricolage  Part 3: Managing Hybridity in Fair Trade  8. Managing Hybrid Organizational Models  Conclusion.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Benjamin Huybrechts is an Assistant Professor and holder of the SRIW-Sowecsom Chair in Social Enterprise Management at the Centre for Social Economy, HEC Management School, University of Liege (Belgium). He holds a PhD in Economics and Management (University of Liege) and has been on a post-doctoral research stay at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School (University of Oxford). He has published several book chapters and articles on Fair Trade and Social Enterprise and has co-edited a special issue on Fair Trade in the Journal of Business Ethics (2010). He is a member of several academic networks, including Fairness and EMES.