1st Edition

Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models

By Benjamin Huybrechts Copyright 2012
264 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for disadvantaged producer groups in the South. Starting from a niche market aimed at convinced... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Diverse and Innovative Organizational Models in a Hybrid Field  1. Fair Trade: A Hybrid Concept and Practice  2. Fair Trade Social Enterprises Worldwide and in Europe  3. Categorizing Hybrid Organizational Models  Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives  4. Theoretical Framework  5. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Efficient Institutional Arrangements  6. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Reflections of Their Environment  7. Fair Trade Social Enterprises as Institutional Bricolage  Part 3: Managing Hybridity in Fair Trade  8. Managing Hybrid Organizational Models  Conclusion.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

Biography

Benjamin Huybrechts is an Assistant Professor and holder of the SRIW-Sowecsom Chair in Social Enterprise Management at the Centre for Social Economy, HEC Management School, University of Liege (Belgium). He holds a PhD in Economics and Management (University of Liege) and has been on a post-doctoral research stay at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School (University of Oxford). He has published several book chapters and articles on Fair Trade and Social Enterprise and has co-edited a special issue on Fair Trade in the Journal of Business Ethics (2010). He is a member of several academic networks, including Fairness and EMES.