Sustainability Standards and Their Trade Implications

Fernandes, Deepali; Bian, Yongmin

doi:10.14330/cwr.2016.2.2.07

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“…Fernandes and Bian (2016) argue that SS fragmentation increases compliance costs, making assessments and comparisons between SS a complicated process. First, there is evidence that producers must meet various standard requirements in a multiplicity situation because they usually sell their products to different markets and buyers (Marx & Wouters, 2014).…”

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“…There has been a proliferation of various SS types (Schleifer et al, 2019). They can be classified by their degree of obligation as voluntary or mandatory, or according to the geographic coverage area: national, regional, and global schemes, or related to who established them: government, private sector, NGOs, and International Organizations (Fernandes & Bian, 2016; Lee et al, 2012). This variety has caused many SS to exist parallel in a given sector, a phenomenon known as standard multiplicity or standard fragmentation (Fiorini et al, 2017; Fransen et al, 2019; UNFSS, 2018).…”

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“…The literature has shown the high costs of incorporating standards (Fernandes & Bian, 2016; Fiorini et al, 2017; Mutersbaugh, 2005). These costs are further intensified when it comes to smallholders because they often lack access to SS information and markets (Brandi et al, 2015; Fiorini et al, 2017), and they need to implement additional labor, resources, and/or technologies to comply with SS's requirements (Higgins & Richards, 2019).…”

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“…Although multiple standards may be desirable to cover different sustainability aspects, they can interact in the same industry (Fernandes & Bian, 2016; Fransen et al, 2019), creating further complications in the implementation processes for the producers. Therefore, depending on the dynamic interactions that exist between the SS schemes in a given sector, trade costs, such as implementation and certification costs, could increase and consequently act as trade barriers for producers (Fernandes & Bian, 2016; Thorstensen et al, 2015; UNFSS, 2018).…”

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Multiplicity of sustainability standards and potential trade costs in the palm oil industry

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The growing impact of the global production of agricultural commodities has created new regulations that aim at a more sustainable trade. Sustainability standards (SS) are essential tools for transnational trade governance because they increase the possibility of recognizing products from sustainable sources. However, there is currently a proliferation of SS in almost every industry. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to establish how standard interactions such as competition, cooperation, and overlap shape the impact of multiplicity on trade costs. We apply the framework to the palm oil industry by using the information on three aspects of SS schemes: the requirements, the institutional design, and the cooperation strategies. Our results indicate that the North–South multiplicity in the palm oil market is characterized by high overlap, but there exists a balanced co‐opetition in the standard market. As the cooperation strategies between the SS schemes are very shallow, there might be potential trade costs associated with the SS multiplicity in the palm oil industry. [EconLit Citations: Q01 Sustainable Development, Q17 Agriculture in International Trade, Q18 Agricultural PolicyFood Policy].

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“…As sustainability standards have proliferated, some of them have become established governance tools that are in effect for a long period of time, and enforcers are familiar with them (Fernandes and Bian, 2016). But others are still in their infancy (Schouten and Bitzer, 2015), and since standards are regarded as dynamically evolving mechanisms, there is often continuing debate about their efficacy.…”

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Supply chain corruption practices circumventing sustainability standards: wolves in sheep's clothing

Silvestre

Viana

Monteiro

2020

IJOPM

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PurposeA growing number of private, voluntary and mandatory sustainability standards have recently emerged. However, supply chain corruption practices as mechanisms to circumvent sustainability standards have also grown and occur regularly. This paper strives to elaborate theory on the intersection of institutional theory, business corruption and the sustainability standards literature by investigating factors that influence the emergence of supply chain corruption practices.Design/methodology/approachBased on secondary data, four in-depth case studies of supply chain corruption practices are investigated through the use of adaptive theory and the method of constant comparisons to elaborate theory on this important phenomenon.FindingsThe paper suggests that although sustainability standards can improve supply chain sustainability performance, if they are adopted only symbolically and not substantively, unanticipated outcomes such as supply chain corruption may occur. The study proposes a typology of supply chain corruption practices, further explores the symbolic adoption of sustainability standards in supply chains and proposes the novel construct of “social isomorphism for corruption.” Since focal companies play central roles in leading supply chain corruption practices, we reason that they can also play a pivotal role in preventing supply chain corruption practices by promoting the substantive adoption of sustainability standards across their supply chains.Originality/valueThis paper elaborates theory on the challenging phenomenon of corruption in supply chains by linking the supply chain management literature to the corruption and the sustainability discourses and offers important insights to aid our understanding on the topic. It generates six propositions and four contributions to the sustainable supply chain management theory, practice and policy.

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Sustainability Standards and Their Trade Implications

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Multiplicity of sustainability standards and potential trade costs in the palm oil industry

Multiplicity of sustainability standards and potential trade costs in the palm oil industry

Supply chain corruption practices circumventing sustainability standards: wolves in sheep's clothing

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