Humanising Business Through Ethical Labelling: Progress and Paradoxes in the UK

Labelling schemes are practical arrangements aimed at making ‘ethical’ products widely available and visible. They are crucial to expanded development of ethical markets and hence to the addition of moral dimensions to the normally amoral behaviour linking consumers and retail and production busines...

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Authors: Hartlieb, Susanne (Author) ; Jones, Bryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2009
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 88, Issue: 3, Pages: 583-600
Further subjects:B Corporate Responsibility
B Ethical Business
B ethical labelling
B Fairtrade
B civil society regulation
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