This chapter tells the story of Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island, a support organization for social enterprises. SVPRI's stakeholders requested assistance in marketing and growth, and SVPRI and its consulting firm, New Commons, responded by developing a label that qualifying stakeholders...

Purpose – This paper aims to explain why Fairtrade International (FI), an organization committed to empowering the producers of Fairtrade certified products, at times (paradoxically), excluded them from its highest bodies of governance. A within-case study of Fairtrade's inclusive and...