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Culture and Justice

In: The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice

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  • Tamara L. Stenn

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Swiss sociologist and professor Geert Hofstede believes that a country’s culture affects its citizens’ interactions with people from other countries in five measureable ways. By understanding these cultural differences, he argues, greater communication and understanding is achieved. Fair Trade is a business relationship that involves many complex culture differences. It entails producers from diverse backgrounds interacting with foreign institutions facilitating export product sales to foreign consumers. Fair trade embraces diversity, engages people of many different religions, socioeconomic backgrounds, gender, and abilities and builds bridges that span nations and cultures such as rural to urban, south to north, producer to consumer. According to Hofstede, understanding regional cultural differences is imperative when developing and managing business relationships. In order for Fair Trade to be successful, and realize its goal of “seeking greater equity in international trade” (DeCarlo, 2007, p. 3), an understanding of these cultural differences and an ability to manage them in a fair and just way is necessary.

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  • Tamara L. Stenn, 2013. "Culture and Justice," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice, chapter 12, pages 221-239, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33148-9_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137331489_12
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