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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.