Doctoral Dissertation Research: Fair Trade Organizations Across Nations and Over Time

博士论文研究：不同国家和不同时期的公平贸易组织

• 批准号: 1129796
• 负责人: Nina Bandelj
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Fair; Trade

SES-1129796Nina BandeljKristen ShoretteUniversity of California-IrvineABSTRACTDoctoral Dissertation Research: Fair Trade Organizations Across Nations and Over TimePersistent inequalities between countries constitute one of the most significant contemporary social problems. Fair trade organizations (FTOs) emerged as a way to address these inequalities, redistribute profits between trading partners, provide a democratic outlet for community development, and protect the natural environment from destructive production practices. This research will explain the uneven rise of fair trade (FT) over the last sixty years. A growing body of social science literature addresses the phenomenon of FT, but this research is limited to case studies of commodities or producer communities. In addition, most research on FT assumes that individual values of altruism and commitment to sustainability drive the growth of its organizations and practices. In contrast, this project adopts a macro-institutional approach and emphasizes the importance of normative, structural and institutional forces in explaining the over-time and cross-national variation in FT. The project seeks to answer the following three questions: (1) What explains the foundation of new FTOs overtime? (2) What explains the concentration of FT producer organizations in some developing countries rather than others, and thus provides more resources to fight inequality in some communities rather than others? and (3) What explains cross-national variation in the amount of FT goods consumed among developed countries? Broader ImpactThis study will improve understanding of how normative, structural and institutional forces shape global markets. It will also expand knowledge of a new organizational and economic phenomenon which has benefited producers from the developing world and has potential to reduce persistent international inequalities. Findings from this study about the causes of proliferation and variation in FT goods are essential information for the current FT community and its efforts to expand the industry and thereby promote Third World development.

SES-1129796Nina BandeljKristen Shorette 加州大学欧文分校摘要博士论文研究：跨国家和长期的公平贸易组织国家之间持续存在的不平等构成了当代最重要的社会问题之一。公平贸易组织 (FTO) 的出现是解决这些不平等问题、在贸易伙伴之间重新分配利润、为社区发展提供民主出路以及保护自然环境免受破坏性生产行为的影响的一种方式。这项研究将解释过去六十年来公平贸易 (FT) 的不平衡增长。越来越多的社会科学文献探讨了 FT 现象，但这项研究仅限于商品或生产者社区的案例研究。此外，大多数关于 FT 的研究都假设利他主义的个人价值观和对可持续发展的承诺推动其组织和实践的发展。相比之下，该项目采用宏观制度方法，强调规范、结构和制度力量在解释金融时报的随时间和跨国变化时的重要性。该项目旨在回答以下三个问题：（1）如何解释新 FTO 加班的基础？ (2) 什么解释了 FT 生产者组织集中在一些发展中国家而不是其他国家，从而为一些社区而不是其他社区提供更多资源来对抗不平等？ (3) 如何解释发达国家之间 FT 商品消费量的跨国差异？更广泛的影响这项研究将增进对规范、结构和制度力量如何塑造全球市场的理解。它还将扩大人们对一种新的组织和经济现象的认识，这种现象使发展中国家的生产者受益，并有可能减少持续存在的国际不平等。这项关于 FT 商品扩散和变异原因的研究结果对于当前 FT 社区及其扩大该行业并从而促进第三世界发展的努力来说是至关重要的信息。