Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain

Towards an Ethical Food Policy for Sustainable Supermarkets
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-78686-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

Food is a source of nourishment, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a means of influence, and signifies good health and well-being. Together with other life enhancing goods such as clean water, unpolluted air, adequate shelter and suitable clothing, food is a basic good which is necessary for human flourishing. In recent times, however, various environmental and social challenges have emerged, which are having a profound effect on both the natural world and built environment – such as climate change, feeding a growing world population, nutritional poverty and obesity. Consequently, whilst the relationships between producers, supermarkets, regulators and the individual have never been more important, they are becoming increasingly complicated.

In the context of a variety of hard and soft law solutions, with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR), the authors explore the current relationship between all actors in the global food supply chain. Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain also provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary response to current calls for reform in relation to social and environmental justice, and proposes an alternative approach to current CSR initiatives. This comprises an innovative multi-agency proposal, with the aim of achieving a truly responsible and sustainable food retail system. Because only by engaging in the widest possible participatory exercise and reflecting on the urban locale in novel, material and cultural ways, is it possible to uncover new directions in understanding, framing and tackling the modern phenomena of, for instance, food deserts, obesity, nutritional poverty and social injustice. Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain engages with a variety of disciplines, including, law, economics, management, marketing, retailing, politics, sociology, psychology, diet and nutrition, consumer behaviour, environmental studies and geography. It will be of interest to both practitioners and academics, including postgraduate students, social scientists and policy-makers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Hillary

Shaw, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why do companies exist? Chapter 1: Feasting Cavemen and Responsible Giants 1.1The eternal modern feast of supermarkets 1.2 The growth of the supermarkets 1.3 Food hedonism 1.4 The growing obesity epidemic 1.5 The multiple dimensions of economies of scale in supermarkets 1.6 What is CSR? 1.7 ‘Provisions’ as a Fourth Bottom Line; why we need enhanced supermarket CSR 1.8 Is anything wrong with supermarket corporate social responsibility? 1.9 The need for more accountable, comparable and long-term CSR 1.10 The need for other actors in the realm of supermarket corporate social responsibility Chapter 2: Food justice as social justice: towards a new regulatory framework in support of a basic human right to healthy food 2.1 The need for regulatory reform to address food injustice 2.2 Hungry for justice: the right to nutritional food and a healthy diet 2.3 Social stratification, poverty and the unequal burden of family health and nutrition 2.4 A Rawlsian approach to alleviating food poverty as a fundamental principle of social justice 2.5 The reciprocal influence of egalitarian institutions as a basic requirement of social justice 2.6 Between theory and reality: from moral law to soft law solutions 2.7 The potential and limits of corporate social responsibility 2.8 Beyond CSR, soft law and traditional regulatory models 2.9 ‘Proximity’ via Levinas and the law of tort: social responsibility begins in the neighbourhood 2.10 Can there ever be a human right to healthy food? Chapter 3 Food Retailing, Society and the Economy 3.1 From laissez-faire to planning regulations 3.2 Behemoths versus Boroughs 3.3 Supermarket land banks 3.4. Other supermarket planning issues…/part contents

Über Autor(innen)

Hillary J. Shaw is Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. His research spans sustainable economic development, corporate social responsibility, and the integration of global and local food systems. He is the author of many journal articles, essays, reviews, reports and books, including The Consuming Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity (Routledge, 2014).

Julia J.A. Shaw is Professor of Law and Social Justice in the School of Law at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Her research is interdisciplinary, and publications include Jurisprudence (3rd edition, Pearson 2018) and Law and the Passions: A Discrete History (Routledge, 2019).