The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains. Taking the case of a cocoa sustainability certification project in Ghana, the study examines the implementation process of such a transnational CSR intervention and its outcomes regarding the local governance and institutional environment of the cocoa sector in Ghana. The study deploys a theoretical framework based on Global Value Chain Analysis and a neo-Gramscian approach to Global Governance to assess transnational CSR as a concept and strategy that reflect power struggles in global production fields.

Auteur

Franziska Ollendorf is a research associate in the working group Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries (SusLAND) at the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Her research centers on sustainability governance and institutional conditions for a sustainability transition in the agricultural sector, with a particular focus on the global cocoa-chocolate value chain.

Contenu
Introduction.- The evolution of CSR as a concept for all.- Consent and Control: a conceptual framework for the study of CSR in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain.- CSR in a dynamic Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain.- The cocoa sector in Ghana a frontier at its limits?.- Field work design and procedures.- CSR in practice: assessing the implementation of one cocoa sustainability program in Ghana.- Transnational CSR as a governance tool and local development in the Global South.- Conclusions.- References.