• DOI:10.1016/J.ECOLECON.2011.08.029
Corpus ID: 54715286

National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains

@article{Manning2012NationalCM,
  title={National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains},
  author={S. Manning and F. Boons and Oliver von Hagen and Juliane Reinecke},
  journal={Industry Specific Strategy & Policy eJournal},
  year={2012}
}

S. Manning, F. Boons, +1 author Juliane Reinecke

Published 2012

Economics

Industry Specific Strategy & Policy eJournal

In this paper, we investigate the role of key industry and other stakeholders and their embeddedness in particular national contexts in driving the proliferation and co-evolution of sustainability standards, based on the case of the global coffee industry. We find that institutional conditions and market opportunity structures in consuming countries have been important sources of standards variation, for example in the cases of Fairtrade, UTZ Certified and the Common Code for the Coffee… CONTINUE READING

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