A. Hughes
Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa
Hughes, A.; McEwan, C.; Bek, D.
Abstract
This article advances debate on retailers’ supply networks and ethical trade using the case of sustainably harvested wildflower bouquets supplied from South Africa to domestic and UK retailers. It illustrates three developments concerning: an evolving relationship between retailers’ brands and ethical trading strategies; a growing role for institutions in the global South in shaping ethical standards and acknowledgement of the challenges facing producers when retailers’ buying practices clash with ethical requirements. These trends concern strategizing, embedding and practising ethicality, respectively, with the term ethicality capturing not only the ethical standards themselves but also the changing practices shaping what counts as ethical.
Citation
Hughes, A., McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2013). Retailers, Supply Networks and Changing Articulations of Ethicality: Lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa. Journal of Economic Geography, 13(2), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Mar 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Nov 29, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | May 8, 2013 |
Journal | Journal of Economic Geography |
Print ISSN | 1468-2702 |
Electronic ISSN | 1468-2710 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 211-230 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049 |
Keywords | Retailers, Global production networks, Ethics, South Africa. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1499682 |
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This is a pre-copy-editing author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of economic geography following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Hughes, A. and McEwan, C. and Bek, D. (2013) 'Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality : lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa.', Journal of economic geography., 13 (2). pp. 211-230 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs049
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