Retailers, supply networks and changing articulations of ethicality: lessons from Flower Valley in South Africa
以南非向国内和英国零售商供应可持续采摘野花花束为例，探讨零售商品牌与伦理贸易策略的演变、南半球机构在制定伦理标准中的作用，以及零售商采购实践与伦理要求冲突时生产者面临的挑战。
This article advances debate on retailers’ supply networks and ethical trade using the case of sustainably harvested wildflower bouquets supplied from South Africa to domestic and UK retailers. It illustrates three developments concerning: an evolving relationship between retailers’ brands and ethical trading strategies; a growing role for institutions in the global South in shaping ethical standards and acknowledgement of the challenges facing producers when retailers’ buying practices clash with ethical requirements. These trends concern strategizing, embedding and practising ethicality, respectively, with the term ethicality capturing not only the ethical standards themselves but also the changing practices shaping what counts as ethical.