Fair Trade Case Studies Samples For Students

Organization Behavior

Holden Outerwear is a company that cares about the internal and external environment. The professional internal team of Holden Outerwear finds the inspiration in fashion. In comparison with the competitors, that look for the inspiration mostly in the internal environment, Holder Outerwear goes beyond the boundaries and always look outside. External environment, like friends, travelling, permits Holden outerwear to make the unique products. Holden outerwear cares about the environment and uses the eco-friendly family of techniques and recourses, like recycled fabrics, solvent free laminations, biodegradable packaging.
Holden Outerwear has the pretty high standards. A compliance with those standards is a ...

Executive summary

Just Us! Coffee is the leader retailer and wholesaler of fair trade products in Canada. The company also deals in other fair trade products such as tea, sugar, and chocolate. Its main differentiation is to sell organic products under the fair trade umbrella. Fair Trade gives the company a sense of social responsibility and environmental responsibility in addition to dealing in premium quality products. The fair trade market is a growing market supported by its differentiation values. Just Us! Café wishes to expand its business in order to maintain its share of the current market in Canada. Meanwhile the company has ...

Annotated bibliography

Cailleba, P., & Casteran, H. (2009). A quantitative study on the fair trade coffee consumer. Journal of Applied Business Research, 25(6), 31-46. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/227583556?accountid=45049

This article draws attention on the manners in which ethical behaviors

of consumers contributes to fair coffee trade. This is vital because most people purchase coffee depending on the consumer perception and values. However, the article also offers the French transactions case study conducted between 2005 and 2007, whose major aim was to find out the effects of personality traits, types of promotion and the characteristics of a product on coffee purchases. Further, the article goes ahead to investigate on the relationship between coffee purchases, personal ...

Science

Impacts of a Borderless Society
Breakfast: Orange juice, eggs, toast, butter, jam, bacon, tea
Breakfast: The orange juice was made with oranges from Florida, freshly squeezed. The eggs came from my Mom’s friend’s farm. My Mom made the bread and the butter was from Wisconsin. Someone my Mom knows made the jam. I think the bacon came from Nebraska but that may be where it was packaged or where the package came from (the label wasn’t very clear). The tea was from Sri Lanka.

Lunch: Burger King Hamburger, juice in a box, French Fries

Lunch: The hamburger was probably from a big containment-type feedlot out in ...

Question 1. Why should Starbucks, Kraft, and Nestle create "ethical supply chains”?

The concept of ethical supply chain has grown more and more popular in the recent years. Ethical in this case should not be confused with legally right, since ethical considerations go far beyond legislation or business relations. Ethical behaviour is usually linked to social responsibility of the companies, which is embedded into their strategy and operations. In businesses related to the global sourcing of inputs, ethical behaviour largely depends on the fair trade concepts, which promote supporting suppliers in the poor countries in order to improve their productivity and enhance competitiveness (Barrar, and Gervais). Since supply chain is in ...

Step 1: Identify Ethical Issues

In this scenario, a clothing company is determining whether or not it is right to source from an Asian manufacturing company. The following ethical issues are identified:
The factory is shown to work the employees long hours, with very low pay compared to America. However, the workers claim that they are very grateful for the jobs that are given to them.

Is it fair to work employees so much for so little, even if they are satisfied by it?

Threads with Style is dedicated to social responsibility as well as profitability. The basic pay of the workers might be low, however it would be better if some form of benefit was given. Although the workers are paid ...

UK drinking is becoming more social, female- and/or family-oriented and outdoors. Daily encounters in U.K.'s metropolitan and high street areas increasingly reflect a notable changing mood. A "Tea Nation" par excellence, Britons are shifting drinking mood not only for coffee but also for coffee shops in lieu of conventional bars. Indeed, rollout expansion rates of coffee shops in U.K. in recent years is showing how coffee shops are not a passing fad which Britons are embracing only to drop soon but is here is stay – for a while. According to case under investigation (Jobber, 2010), U.K. coffee shop markets is dominated by ...

Unfair Exploitation of Child Labor

Introduction
Child labor is defined as all those work that affect children’s life in terms of health and their education. Other instances where children help their parents in running errands at home do not qualify as child labor. When the activities involved is positive then we cannot say it is child labor rather it enhances the skills of the child. Child labor has a long historical background dating back to the colonization time when there was slave trade. Industrial revolution contributed to the relocation of people to urban areas where child labour was preferred in many factories because ...

Business as Unusual: The Body Shop

(Instructor Name)
- Why has Body Shop been so successful?
The Body Shop’s core positioning has been environment friendly products created through sustainable sourcing of natural ingredients. This positioning appeals to consumers at multiple levels:
- The products are natural and therefore pure and unadulterated with high percentage of harmful chemicals. They will therefore not have any side-effects.
- The products are environment-friendly and do not cause pollution.
- The products are sourced from indigenous tribes and farming communities which produce them by sustainable methods.
The social viewpoint supported the ecological perspective ...

5 Question Based on Four case Studies
- For each case identify in chart form the key problems each individual is facing.
Figure 1: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study A: Juliana
Figure 2: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study B: Rosa
Figure 3: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study C: Joanne
Figure 4: Chart showing problems experienced in Case Study D: Juliana
Figure 5: A combined chart for all the four case studies and their respective problems
- Assume that Richard decided to visit Juan in Nicaragua. What ...