Corporate social reporting, while not mandatory in most countries, has been adopted by
many large companies around the world and there are now a variety of competing global …

Dr Alex Nicholls, PhD (King's College, London) and MBA (Saïd Business School, University
of Oxford), is a university lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Skoll Centre for Social …

Many policy prescriptions emphasise poverty reduction through closer integration of poor
people or areas with global markets. Global value chain (GVC) studies reveal how firms and …

This paper begins to explore the changing political geographies of alternative development
as practiced and envisioned in the global South. Looking specifically at the growing …

From mad cows to McDonaldization to genetically modified maize, European food scares
and controversies at the turn of the millennium provoked anxieties about the perils hidden in …

Corruption in supply chains is an important but poorly understood phenomenon that
prevents supply chains from achieving their desired sustainability performance. Drawing …

Long-term organisational viability and competitiveness should not be evaluated solely in
terms of financial measures. Investors, policy makers and other stakeholders increasingly …

Human-induced land use changes are nowadays the second largest contributor to
atmospheric carbon dioxide after fossil fuel combustion. Existing historic land change …

Democratic legitimacy is rarely associated with private governance. After all, private actors
are not legitimized through elections by a demos. Instead of abandoning democratic …

In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New
Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who …