Convenience

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Part 1:
An Introduction to Management
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Case Questions
1.
How does the environment affect fair trade?
2.
What are the trade-offs in the fair-trade process?
Do you think that fair trade promotes fair trade-
offs? Why or why not?
3.
Do you pay attention to fair-trade products in
your own purchasing behavior? For what kind of
products might you be willing to pay premium
prices?
4.
Under what circumstances might fair trade actu-
ally cause harm? To whom? At what point
would
fair-trade
trade-offs
no
longer
be
acceptable?
Case References
“Enjoy Those Chocolate Hearts While You Can,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, February 11–February
17,
2013,
p.
19;
Rodney
North,
“VDay’s
Dark Side,” Equal Exchange, February 2010,
www.equalexchange.coop, accessed on July 30,
2013; “Cocoa’s Bitter Child Labour Ties,”
BBC News
,
February
24,
2010,
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk,
accessed on July 30, 2013; Bill Baue, “Abolishing
Child Labor on West African Cocoa Farms,”
Social
Funds
, April 24, 2008, www.socialfunds.com,
accessed on July 30, 2013; Fairtrade International,
“Our Vision,” “Aims of Fairtrade Standards,”
“Cocoa,” 2010, www.fairtrade.net, accessed on July
30, 2013; TransFair USA, “What Is Fair Trade?”
“Cocoa,” 2010, fairtradeusa.org, accessed on July
30, 2013; Leslie Josephs, “Selling Candy with a Con-
science,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 24, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com, accessed on July 30, 2013;
and Jennifer Alsever, “Fair Prices for Farmers:
Simple Idea, Complex Reality,”
New York Times
,
March 19, 2006, www.nytimes.com, accessed on
July 30, 2013.