Biggs, Stephen and Lewis, David 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0732-9020
(2009)
Fair trade and organizational innovation in Nepal: lessons from 25 Years of growth of the Association of Craft Producers (ACP).
European Journal of Development Research, 21 (3).
pp. 377-396.
ISSN 0957-8811
Abstract
The history of the Association of Craft Producers, a fair trade organization in Nepal, illustrates an important point often ignored during research on development organizations: that each will evolve along unique lines, not easily fitting into standard categories of 'for-profit' business, 'non-profit' organization, 'charity' or 'development non-governmental organization' used in the literature. Instead, organizational structures, ideas and cultures are constructed by practice as highly contingent processes and based on diverse logics. We argue against the managerialist idea that such organizations can be viewed simply as variants or 'hybrids', and we challenge conventional emphases on organizations as unitary structures or systems within an environment in favour of a more interactive, dynamic perspective in which actors in organizations are seen to change the environments in which they are located. Such an approach also provides support to ideas about 'positive deviance' as a method of learning that can potentially avoid formulaic thinking.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/index.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Palgrave Macmillan |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2009 08:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/24693 |
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