Sustaining Inter-organizational Relationships Across Institutional Logics and Power Asymmetries: The Case of Fair Trade

This paper explores an empirical puzzle, namely, how inter-organizational relationships can be sustained between organizations that draw upon distinctive—and potentially conflicting—institutional logics under conditions of power asymmetry. This research analyses cases of these relationships and sugg...

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Authors: Nicholls, Alex (Author) ; Huybrechts, Benjamin (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2016
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 135, Issue: 4, Pages: 699-714
Further subjects:B Inter-organizational relationship
B Corporate retailer
B Power asymmetry
B Buyer–seller exchange
B Institutional logics
B Fair Trade
B Social Enterprise
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