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Investigating the drivers of corporate social responsibility in the global tea supply chain: a case study of Eastern Produce Limited in Malawi

Using a case study of the tea producer Eastern Produce Malawi, this research investigates which factors which influence companies upstream in the global supply chains to adopt a corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda. Although external pressures, such as demands from Western consumers or international organizations and their related initiatives, may have shaped Eastern Produce Malawi's CSR agenda, strong internal organizational contingencies, including transformational leaders who recognize the significance of ethical issues and strong organizational values, led it to adopt this CSR agenda in practice. This study underscores the significance of using an integrative framework to explain various CSR drivers for companies. It concludes with managerial and public policy implications, as well as areas for further research.

Cross-border heritage: Friesland tea culture.

Corporate social responsibility: practices in the Malawian tea industry.

This chapter explores the CSR actions undertaken by Eastern Produce Malawi (EPM), a subsidiary company of a multinational corporation which is based in the United Kingdom. Drawing on qualitative-based research, this chapter suggests that EPM management frames their CSR agenda through the lens of both the local and global societal challenges and expectations. This chapter shows how the contextual factors in a developing country can shape how the MNC’s global CSR standards can be translated into locally framed CSR practices. This then offers new insights into the MNC’s attempts to strike a balance between ensuring global consistency in its CSR actions and the development of CSR agenda that is responsive to local realities. The CSR agenda that EPM implements challenges the ‘one size fits all’ and the global CSR standardization thinking that sometimes dominates the CSR agenda of MNCs in different contexts.

Many faces, many opinions, many views

Introduction by Klaas Molenaar and Margot Lobbezoo about the diversity of entrepeneurs. Every day we meet entrepreneurs; when we visit the deli at the corner, order a taxi, have a cup of tea in the bar on the other side of the street or go to a hairdresser. They are everywhere and they have many faces. And there are many opinions about entrepreneurship.

When the arts are not your cup of tea : participation frequency and experience in cultural activities

Expressive cultural activities, such as viewing visual art, drama, or dance, are perceived as beneficial to individuals and societies, justifying public funding. However, not everyone benefits and participates equally. We intentionally sampled infrequent and frequent attendees among young adults in the Netherlands. Results indicated that infrequent and frequent attendees differed in expressive cultural activity constraints and socialization, though not on demographic background. Their cultural, social, and emotional experience through self-report and physiological data revealed no significant differences between the groups’ experience of a dramatic performance. These outcomes suggest that, as an example of expressive cultural activity, a dramatic performance experience can be equally emotionally beneficial to frequent and infrequent attendees, an important prerequisite to broader appeal and intergroup contact. Implications of the use of physiological data in leisure experience research are discussed

A digital twin for your next tea ceremony? The future of (business) events, anno 2021/2022