scholarly journals Of Old and New Business Ethics: How Fair Trade Becomes Patronage and Paternalism in a Darjeeling Tea Plantation

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Arnaud Kaba
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Tea Plantation ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Domination Structures ◽  
Responsible Management ◽  
New Business ◽  
Darjeeling Tea ◽  
Patronage System

This paper is about Fair Trade and business ethics. It analyses data from fieldwork conducted in a famous Darjeeling tea plantation which practices biological and biodynamic farming and is labeled as Fair Trade. Its aim is to show how the plantation owner, using aggressive marketing of his engagement with eco-friendly and corporately-responsible management, has managed to regenerate an old patronage system more or less similar to industrial paternalism, but with its roots in colonial as well as indigenous domination structures. Disappointed by their unions, workers have had no alternative but to accept this form of governance, and some even acknowledge it as a good one. This case is a good example of how Fair Trade, which claims to empower workers, can be used to fuel a system which results in their disempowerment as social actors.

scholarly journals Fair Trade and Islam : A Parallel Journey

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Md. Sarwar Uddin ◽  
Mohammad Aktaruzzaman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Research Gap

Fair trade is an organized social movement through wider network of producers, importers, retailers and consumers who are thinking globally to promote trading partnership of  products, based on mutually agreed upon condition, accountability & transparency, social justice and equity for livelihood sustainability and economic development by creating  fairer and better conditions of trade. It secures the rights of marginalized producers and workers especially, in the underdeveloped and developing countries in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to security and economic selfsufficiency, supporting environmentally feasible, socially acceptable and economically viable production and distribution of Fair Trade labeled and unlabeled goods. Again Islam urges on establishing Adl, Ehsan and eleminating Julum and Haram from trade and business to establish peace and prosperity in the society. This paper attempts to draw a line of linkage between fair trade and Islam. It also has the endeavour to unveil that the guidelines in the Holy Quran and the Sunnah are the roots and indications of Fair trade. Moreover, the principles of fair trade which are focused now have pronounced in Islam long ago. Archive method of study has been followed to conduct the research through pursuing Quran, Sunnah, different books, journals and web materials. A substantial number of researchers have focused issues related to business ethics and Islam but the issue of Fair trade and Islam has got very little attention by the early researchers. This research gap has created proclivity in the present researchers to conduct the study. This paper will be a valuable document in enriching the literature in this field and will create dimensions for further research. Key words: Fair trade, Islam

DO BUSINESS ETHICS REALLY MATTER?

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 705
Author(s):  
A. Lagan
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
New Business

There are few people today who would dare to say that business and ethics are incompatible forces. This was not the case so very long ago. Despite this shift, the recent spate of spectacular business collapses would seem to suggest that there is still a lag between the values being espoused by today’s business leaders, and the resources allocated to ensuring the ethical imperative is embedded in day-to-day decision-making.This paper seeks to present an overview of where the business ethics debate sits today and how this relates to the current state of ethical play in the oil and gas industry. It reviews the major forces pushing ethics up the corporate agenda and seeks to build the business case for why attention to business ethics will improve overall organisational performance. It does this by reviewing the new business philosophies of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) and argues that these new business doctrines can be seen as essentially applied ethical practices and present the greatest opportunity to date for embedding the ethical imperative in organisational life.The author argues that historically it has been the oil and gas industries that have been the first to recognise the interdependence of business ethics and organisational performance and that it is these industries have now moved into stage two phase of sustainability development where they are focussing their efforts on embedding the ethical perspective into their day-to-day performance management systems.

Role Of Ethics In Modern Business Paradigm

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 2285-2294
Author(s):  
DIKSHA PAHUJA
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Insider Trading ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
New Business ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Corporate Social

Business ethics is the study of proper business policies and practices regarding potentially controversial issues such as corporate governance, Insider trading, bribery, discrimination, corporate social responsibility and fiduciary responsibilities .Business ethics simply we mean that the application of ethics in business. The study concentrates on how the modern businesses are accelerated by applying the code of conduct in the environment of the business. The article discusses the survival of modern in the present society. The results of this study would help the modern industries in achieving their targeted result in a smooth way. The existing companies can improve their practices and new business can comply with the results for better performance. This article also describes the ethical issues, which are vital to solving the problems related to business, and to give short preface to the moral issues drawn in the management of explicit problem areas in business.

Transforming Crises into Opportunities to Generate Sustainable Business in Brazil

2015 ◽  
pp. 46-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Juliana d'Angelo ◽  
Janette Brunstein ◽  
Emerson Wagner Mainardes
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
New Business ◽  
Corporate Social

Meeting the sustainable development complex requirements in a scenario, which involves multiple social actors, relationships, contexts, and interests, has demanded new business models. Thus, this chapter discusses how one of the largest companies in Latin America's chemical segment formed a network with 23 social actors and has built a Corporate Social Entrepreneurship model to deal with the dialectic between return on investments for its shareholders and benefits for its stakeholders. Research was conducted based on Boje's narrative analysis. The data was built through interviews, informal conversations, textual and audiovisual documents, and non-participant observation. The chapter describes the Corporate Social Entrepreneurship model's elements and in this manner contributes to the discussion of the role of Academia, Industry, and Government in entrepreneurship.

How We Got Over: The Moral Teachings of The African–American Church on Business Ethics

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl M. Trimiew ◽  
Michael Greene
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African American ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Business Ethic ◽  
African American Community ◽  
African American Church ◽  
Self Help ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
New Business ◽  
American Society

Abstract:An analysis of the business ethics of the African-American church during and after Reconstruction reveals that it is a conflicted ethic, oscillating between two poles. The first is the sacralization of the business ethic of Booker T. Washington, in which self-help endeavors which valorize American capitalism but are preferentially oriented to the African-American community are advanced as the best and only options for economic uplift. The second is the “Blackwater” tradition, which rejects any racial discrimination and insists upon social justice. The inability of the Washingtonian business ethic to address the needs of the Black underclass are explored. A new business ethic is called for, which would be committed to meeting the basic needs of the most disadvantaged members of American society and those of the “international poor.”

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