Assembled but unrehearsed
Corporate Food Power and the 'Dance' of Supply Chain Sustainability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2157458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Freidberg (0000-0001-5916-8519, Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 383-400 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150.2018.1534835 |
| OpenAlex | W2905106805 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 66 |
In recent years, many of the companies collectively known as 'Big Food' have undertaken efforts to assess and improve agricultural sustainability, both within their own supply chains and as members of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). Taking up Friedmann's call for closer attention to corporate sustainability practices, this paper finds that companies are doing more than they advertise, but making slower progress than originally hoped. Up to a point, political economy perspectives on corporate power and governance help to explain both why these MSIs have taken shape, and why their corporate members' immense market power might not guarantee quick results. Yet these perspectives do not fully capture how corporations' sustainability efforts contend with not only other actors' challenges to their legitimacy and authority, but also their own lack of knowledge and access to information. This paper therefore also draws on global assemblage and science and technology studies (STS) frameworks in order to analyze corporate power - and its limits - inside a set of ongoing sustainability initiatives
Business · Corporate governance · Corporate social responsibility · Corporate sustainability · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Stakeholder · Supply chain · Sustainability · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Organic Food and Agriculture · Marketing
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |