Purpose – An important characteristic of Fair Trade products is that a fair price is paid to the producer. At the same time the Fair Trade system is accused of being inefficient with respect to the distribution of the price premium paid by consumers along the supply chain. This study aims to...

In the light of recent strong global increases of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), Ethiopia is one of the developing countries having received high FDI inflows in its agribusiness sector especially since 2006. As the agribusiness sector is the base of the Ethiopian economy these increases may...

“Growing awareness among consumers about sustainability issues ‐ ranging from recycling to fair wages forworkers ‐ are starting to shape consumer buying patterns” (Partos 2009). Especially for conscious consumersethical and sustainable consumption are becoming mainstream.With regard to...

Um die globalen Nachhaltigkeitsziele zu erreichen sind die Ernährungsentscheidungen, die Gäste in der Außer-Haus-Gastronomie treffen, von besonderer Bedeutung. Welcher Nudge am besten geeignet ist, um Gäste zu einem nachhaltigen Ernährungsverhalten zu stupsen, wurde in fünf...

Purpose/Value – The objective of this paper is to determine (1) the extent to which sustainability serves as a sales argument and (2) which areas of sustainability are communicated in the fruit juice industry. This seems promising against the background that there are several ethical...