The moral economy of grades and standards
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...Rather, we argue that TPC reorganizes, transforms and disciplines people and things (Busch, 2000) throughout the supply chain, with diVerential social and economic implications for various participants....
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...Thus, the evolution of product differentiation standards can be seen as a result, and also an integral part, of the trend towards quality-based competition in agri-food markets (Busch, 2000; Busch and Bain, 2004)....
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...Whilst qualification processes have been theorised as representations of the shifting moral and ethical conventions of societies (Busch, 2000; Parrott et al., 2002), and as instruments constructed by powerful actors to be wielded in geopolitical negotiations (Moran, 1993; Barham, 2003), at the micro level they have their foundation, and logic, in theories of the competitive advantage of firms....
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...Whilst qualification processes have been theorised as representations of the shifting moral and ethical conventions of societies (Busch, 2000; Parrott et al., 2002), and as instruments constructed by powerful actors to be wielded in geopolitical negotiations (Moran, 1993; Barham, 2003), at the…...
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...As Foucault (1977) has suggested, some, perhaps most, of these relations of power are benign....
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...On the one hand, the social studies of science has been much in#uenced through the Actor Network Theory developed by Latour (1987, 1993) and Callon (Callon, 1991; Callon and Latour, 1992; Callon et al., 1986) among others (e.g., Law, 1994)....
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...On the one hand, the social studies of science has been much in#uenced through the Actor Network Theory developed by Latour (1987, 1993) and Callon (Callon, 1991; Callon and Latour, 1992; Callon et al., 1986) among others (e.g., Law, 1994)....
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...…of Edmund Stone: Mathematical Instruments are the means by which those noble sciences, geometry and philosophy, are render'd 8As both Rouse (1987) and Latour (1987) have noted, the illusion of universality is constructed by a set of speci"c events and actions that are always local in character....
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