Governing African cotton and timber through CSR: competition, legitimacy and power

Sneyd, Adam

doi:10.1080/02255189.2012.687354

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“…Certification is a voluntary instrument that outlines a list of social and environmental standards that participating companies must meet, as verified through a third‐party auditing system (FSC, n.d.; PEFC, n.d.). Participation in these schemes has grown exponentially since the creation of the FSC in 1993, aided in part by shifting consumer demand, more stringent public procurement requirements, and the access to Western markets afforded to firms operating in diverse geographical contexts such as post‐Soviet Russia and various African countries (Berock & Ongolo, 2019; Chen et al, 2011; Matilainen & Pappila, 2014; Nystėn‐Haarala, 2013; Sneyd, 2012; Tulaeva, 2013). While the current price premiums for certified products may not always match producer expectations, certification is often regarded as an implicit requirement, both for the opportunities it provides and its potential signalling of firms' legitimacy on pressing sustainability issues (Berock & Ongolo, 2019; Johansson, 2014; Tuppura, Arminen, et al, 2016).…”

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“…• Doing the "right" thing beyond profit focus and legal compliance (Han et al, 2013, p. 785) • Business practices that exceed minimum obligations to improve societies (Sneyd, 2012) Obligation…”

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“…Certification is a voluntary instrument that outlines a list of social and environmental standards that participating companies must meet, as verified through a third-party auditing system (FSC, n.d.; PEFC, n.d.). Participation in these schemes has grown exponentially since the creation of the FSC in 1993, aided in part by shifting consumer demand, more stringent public procurement requirements, and the access to Western markets afforded to firms operating in diverse geographical contexts such as post-Soviet Russia and various African countries (Berock & Ongolo, 2019;Chen et al, 2011;Matilainen & Pappila, 2014;Nystėn-Haarala, 2013;Sneyd, 2012;Tulaeva, 2013).…”

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Corporate social responsibility: Current state and future opportunities in the forest sector

Villamor,

Wallace

2024

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) remains a critical topic for the forestry sector due to increasing societal expectations about the sustainable use of forests. This paper presents an updated review of the history, current state, and future opportunities for CSR in the forest sector. Drawing from cases of CSR in practice, the review focuses on CSR's role in firms' performance and reputation capital. As opposed to popular theoretical conceptualisations, firms' choice of CSR criteria, indicators, and implementation tools remain heavily weighted toward environmental concerns. Our findings suggest that CSR benefits a firm's reputation, but the review is less categorical on CSR's more direct or tangible effects in the short‐ or longer term. The review thus identifies progress in the field but concludes that opportunities exist to exploit CSR in the forestry sector more thoroughly.

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2024

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“…While both initiatives accept the imperative of price competition and both must work to keep major market actors ‘on‐side’, these differences are not simply academic. They could lead to considerable future dissimilarities with respect to social performance, and fuel divergent perceptions of the legitimacy of these systems or of the corporate or civil society actors involved (Bernstein and Cashore, ; Dingwerth, ; Scholte, ; Sneyd, ). Finally, relating this point on difference back to the wider literature on roundtables, this article has shown how certification initiatives in industries with different conditions and methods of production to those in the forestry and fisheries sector lead also to different governance practices (cf.…”

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When Governance Gets Going: Certifying ‘Better Cotton’ and ‘Better Sugarcane’

Sneyd¹

2014

Development and Change

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As many new certification systems for commodities have been established over the past decade, scholars have devoted sustained attention to the ways that these multi‐stakeholder governance initiatives have transformed the industries in which they were launched. With a few notable exceptions, studies in this area have continued to focus on the development and impacts of new governance mechanisms, and on the sectoral or industrial changes that have ensued. In contrast to these ‘inside‐out’ perspectives on governance innovation and change, this article considers how two prominent yet relatively under‐studied commodity governance initiatives have been shaped by the broader political economic order in which they operate. To offer an ‘outside‐in’ account of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and Bonsucro (formerly the Better Sugarcane Initiative), the article details recent changes in what the author terms the ‘world commodity order’, and situates the BCI and Bonsucro within this order. From this vantage point, the author ultimately makes two analytical claims: (i) that the world commodity order has not precluded the differential institutionalization of these initiatives; and (ii) that aspects of the order have circumscribed the potential of the BCI and Bonsucro to deliver pro‐poor business practices.

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“…To conduct this study the author tapped and built upon a contact network he forged during extended country-level research in 2010 [8]. Original work to identify flashpoints in perspectives on this topic was executed in Yaoundé and more remotely in the Centre, Littoral, Northwest, South, Southwest, and West regions over a two-month period in 2012.…”

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Cameroon: Perspectives on Food Security and the Emerging Power Footprint

Sneyd

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:The reality that food security is a contested concept and ultimately a matter of perspective has considerable implications for Cameroon's partnerships with emerging powers. This article argues that Cameroon could achieve a more sustainable and equitable food system if greater policy attention is directed toward understanding the range of perspectives that contend to influence food security policy, and to engaging with viewpoints that vie to assess the 'footprint' of emerging powers in this area. The analysis presented below shows that the principal perspectives that compete to influence Cameroonian policy vary depending on the particular dimension of food security or aspect of emerging power activity under discussion. This finding challenges previous typologies, and encourages more nuanced interpretations of debates on these matters moving forward.

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Governing African cotton and timber through CSR: competition, legitimacy and power

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Corporate social responsibility: Current state and future opportunities in the forest sector

Corporate social responsibility: Current state and future opportunities in the forest sector

When Governance Gets Going: Certifying ‘Better Cotton’ and ‘Better Sugarcane’

Cameroon: Perspectives on Food Security and the Emerging Power Footprint

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