"This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and...

"The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed...

"This book aims to answer a simple question: does private governance work? Can the use of market-driven, voluntary mechanisms compel value chain actors to change their practices in the direction of greater sustainability? And if yes, why are some standards more successful in that mission than...

"Against the backdrop of an increasingly globalized business environment, the book provides readers with a pragmatic approach to strategic management of complex issues that arise from the tension between fiduciary and ethical priorities. If the challenge of management is making decisions in...

The founder of Starbucks shares his untold personal story - from his childhood in Brooklyn's housing projects to his rise as a business icon - and lays out his vision for how companies can improve their social impact.

Africa's cooperative revival -- Conceptualizing cooperatives -- Outline of chapters -- Methodological notes -- Footloose labor in Uganda's coffee sector -- Rural labor diversification -- Working conditions in agriculture and beyond -- The discriminatory nature of informal labor market regulation...

Risks related to commodity price volatility are a major thread to actors in commodity chains, particularly to smallholder farmers in low income countries. Therefore, price setting and transmission within global commodity chains are of crucial importance from a developmental and distributional...

This study examines the relationship between the trajectory of technological innovations in Brazilian coffee regions in the period 1932-2012, with the economic growth and development in those areas. The objective of the study is to provide information to public and private institutions involved...

We posit that comparative advantage is discovered via alternative transactional regimes of trading. Transactional regimes are performative, based on different forms of embedded agency. The theory is applied on a study of Brazilian coffee business which manifests the increasing importance of...

Supply relationships and e-auctions are complementary procurement forms that specialty coffee roasters can utilize when designing a procurement strategy. We model the roasters' optimal choices of procurement strategies using an extended newsvendor model. By comparing the optimal strategies in a...

Risks related to commodity price volatility are a major thread to actors in commodity chains, particularly to smallholder farmers in low income countries. Therefore, price setting and transmission within global commodity chains are of crucial importance from a developmental and distributional...

1. Why creating shared value? -- 2. The world's beverage of choice -- 3. The shared C in coffee and Colombia : complexity -- 4. Nestle in Colombia -- 5. From farm to cup : the Nescafe plan -- 6. Quality, productivity and sustainability : the AAA sustainable quality program -- 7. Lessons learned...