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Governing Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains: A History of Power, Politics and Profit

by Stefano Ponte
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781786992581
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Zed Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 90.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 567 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Developing & Emerging Countries, Schools / Levels / Higher, and Development / Sustainable Development

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainability the last decade has witnessed the birth of hybrid forms of governance where business, civil society and public actors interact at different levels, leading to a focus on concepts of legitimacy within multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs).

Based in over 15 years of theoretical engagement and field research, Business, Power and Sustainability draws from both labour-intensive value chains, such as in the agro-food sector (coffee, wine, fish, biofuels, palm oil), and from capital-intensive value chains such as in shipping and aviation, to discuss how sustainability governance can be best designed, managed and institutionalized in today's world of global value chains (GVCs). Examining current theoretical and analytical efforts aimed at including sustainability issues in GVC governance theory, it expands on recent work examining GVC upgrading by introducing the concept of environmental upgrading; and through new conceptions of orchestration, it provides suggestions for how governments and international organizations can best facilitate the achievement of sustainability goals.

Essential reading on the governance of sustainability in the twenty-first century.

Ponte, Stefano: - Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His previous books include The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development (Zed, 2005, with Benoit Daviron); Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy (2005, with Peter Gibbon); Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World (2011, with Lisa Ann Richey); and Business, Power, and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains (Zed, 2019).

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