Global Value Chains, Labor Organization and Private Social Standards
Lessons from East African Cut Flower Industries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11916645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lone Riisgaard (0000-0002-8827-3227, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 326-340 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-750X • E-ISSN: 1873-5991 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.03.003 |
| OpenAlex | W2014469319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 81 |
| References cited | 19 |
Agency (philosophy · Business · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Global value chain · Globalization · Labor relations · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Private sector · Representation (politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Organic Food and Agriculture · Finance
Global Value Chains and Development
Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis
The Emergence of a Standards Market
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields
Fairtrade Certification, Labor Standards, and Labor Rights
Fair Trade USA coffee plantation certification
The Nexus Between Sources of Workers’ Power in the Garment Manufacturing Industries of Lesotho and Eswatini
A ‘Private-sector Success Story’? Uncovering the Role of Politics and the State in Kenya’s Horticultural Export Sector
You Can(’t) Always Get the Job You Want
Worker Empowerment Through Private Standards. Evidence from the Peruvian Horticultural Export Sector
Global Value Chains and Market Formation Process in Emerging Export Activity
Methodologies and Perspectives in Research on Labour Relations in Global Agricultural Production Networks
Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance
Institutional Change in Value Chains
Earnings, savings, and job satisfaction in a labor-intensive export sector
Violence, Instability, and Trade
Property Rights and Consumption Volatility
The Welfare Effects of Trade in Phytomedicines
Towards more stringent sustainability standards? Trends in the cut flower industry
Labouring for global markets
Labor agency in the football manufacturing industry of Sialkot, Pakistan
Roundtabling’ sustainability
Agency within a socially regulated labour market
The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains
The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries
Gender, health, labor, and inequities
Mapping the research domains on work in agriculture. A bibliometric review from Scopus database
Spurred to Upgrade
Effects of Fairtrade on the livelihoods of poor rural workers
Work regimes and technology-driven transformations in DRCongo's artisanal and small-scale gold mines
Participatory and prospective value network analysis
Readiness, resilience and the ripple effect
Global land governance
The socio-spatial dynamics of development
Agro-export specialization and food security in a sub-national context
Corporate social responsibility and labour agency
The influence of tariff regimes on global production networks (GPNs)
Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality
Big retail and sustainable coffee
Voluntary Sustainability Standards
Challenges of Agro-Food Standards Conformity
From Power Imbalance to Interdependence
Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains
Gender equity, labor rights, and women’s empowerment
Battlefields of ideas
Geographical Indications in Latin America Value Chains
Quantifying value chain analysis in the context of livestock systems in developing countries
Farm size and the quality and quantity of jobs—Insights from Nigeria
Multichain strategies and economic upgrading in global value chains
Coping with the Upheavals of Globalization in the Shea Value Chain
Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador
How internationally funded NGOs promote gender equality in horticulture value chains in Kenya
Fairtrade labour certification
Beyond the Workplace
Voices of the poor
Mind the gap
Fair Trade Flowers
Agriculture traditionnelle et fleurs coupées
Health as an emerging value in the construction of quality of berries in Huelva (Spain)
Sustainability and Depoliticisation
The origin and expansion of regional value chains
Responsibility and neglect in global production networks
Contingent spaces for smallholder participation in GlobalGAP
Voluntary governance in clothing production networks
Forging the Neoliberal Competitiveness Agenda
Southern actors and the governance of labour standards in global production networks
Environmental Upgrading and Downgrading in Global Value Chains
From fish to fishworker traceability in Thai fisheries reform
Transforming Global Commodity Chains
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks
Trading Sand, Undermining Lives
Letting Go of 'Conventionalisation
Between Legitimacy and Cost
Voice in Supply Chains
Fordism, flexible specialization and CSR
New Paths to Capitalist Agricultural Production in Africa
A New System of Labour Management in African Large-Scale Agriculture
On Institutionalized Sexual Economies
Agrarian Marxism and the proletariat
Peasant inclusion in global value chains
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains
Global production systems and third world development
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
Globalisation and Unequalisation
Ethical trade
Multi-stakeholder approaches to ethical trade
The governance of global value chains
Greener than Thou
A Gendered Value Chain Approach to Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture
Local Clusters in Global Chains
Humanising the Cut Flower Chain
Outsourcing Regulation
Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables
Global production networks
Corporate responsibility and the movement of business
Trade unions and NGOs
Reaching the marginalised? Gender value chains and ethical trade in African horticulture
| Unique citing works | 81 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 81 |