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We are all in the Shift
Blowfield Publications
NEW PUBLICATION: Business, Corporate Responsibility and Poverty Reduction
Books
Blowfield, M.E. and Murray, A. Corporate Responsibility: a critical introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 - second edition due 2011
Blowfield, M.E. (2010) Ethical Trade: the negotiation of a global ethic?
Blowfield, M.E. Step Up: a call for business leadership CEOs examine the role of business in the twenty-first century. Boston, Center for Corporate Citizenship, 2007
Peer-reviewed articles
Blowfield, M.E. (in press) Outsourcing governance: the perils of global corporate governance in the 21st century. Corporate Governance.
Blowfield, M.E. & Dolan, C.S. (in press) Fairtrade facts and fancies: what Kenyan Fairtrade tea tells us about business' role as development agent. Journal of Business Ethics.
Blowfield, M.E. "Climategate" In Business Strategy Review, Summer 2010
Blowfield, M.E. "Global Warning: business and climate change" In Business Strategy Review, Spring 2009
Blowfield, M.E. and Dolan, C.S. Stewards of Virtue: The Ethical Dilemma of CSR in African Agriculture In Development and Change, 39(1), 2008
Blowfield, M.E. Business and poverty In Business Strategy Review, Winter 2007
Blowfield, M.E. Reasons to be Cheerful? What we know about the impact of corporate responsibility In Third World Quarterly, Summer 2007
Blowfield, M.E. and Frynas, J.G. (editors) Setting New Agendas, editorial for special edition International Affairs, May 2005
Blowfield, M.E. Reinventing the Meaning of Development In International Affairs, May 2005
Blowfield, M.E. Going Global: how to identify and manage societal expectations in supply chains (and the consequences of failure) In Corporate Governance, 5:3 2005
Blowfield, M.E. Corporate Social Responsibility the failing discipline and why it matters for International Relations In International Relations, June 2005
Blowfield, M.E. CSR and Development: is business appropriating global justice? In Development, September 2004
Blowfield, M.E. An Asian Approach to Corporate Responsibility: possibility or deception? In Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Spring 2004
Blowfield, M.E. Ethical Supply Chains in the Cocoa, Coffee and Tea Industries. In Greener Management International, Autumn 2003
Blowfield, M.E. Multi-stakeholder Partnerships. In Journal of Corporate Governance, 2001, pp 36-43
Blowfield, M.E. Ethical Trade: revisiting progress, developments and issues. In Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 11, 2001, pp 187-205
Blowfield, M.E. Ethical Sourcing: a contribution to sustainability or a diversion? In Sustainable Development, 8, November 2000 pp 191-200
Tallontire, A., Blowfield, M.E. Will the WTO Prevent the Growth of Ethical Trade: implications of the international policy environment for ethical trade schemes. In Journal of International Development, 12, 2000 pp 571-584
Blowfield, M.E. Ethical Trade: a review of developments and issues. In Third World Quarterly, 20:4, Chichester, Wiley, 1999 pp 753-770
Blowfield, M.E. Culture Clash: concepts of land in Indonesia. In The Land, 2:1, 1998, pp 3-20
Extended Papers
Blowfield, M.E. Business, Corporate Responsibility, and Poverty. UN Research Institute for Social Development, 2009
Blowfield, M.E. Going Global: managers experiences working with worldwide stakeholders. Boston, Center for Corporate Citizenship, 2005
Bedford, A., Blowfield, M., Burnett, D., Greenhalgh, P. Value Chains: lessons from the Kenya tea and Indonesia cocoa sectors. Focus, 3. London, Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, 2001
Barney, I., Blowfield, M.E., McIntosh, M. The Business Poverty Interface; London, Social Dimensions of Business Practice Resource Centre, 2000
Malins, A., Blowfield, M.E., Nelson, V., Maynard, Gallat, S. Ethical Trade and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods; Chatham, Natural Resources Institute, 1999
Blowfield, M.E. Labour Strategies among Smallholders producing Perennial Tree Crops in Ghana and Indonesia. NRI Socio-economic series no. 9. Chatham, Natural Resources Institute, 1995
Blowfield, M.E. The Allocation of Labour to Perennial Tree Crops: decision-making by African smallholders. NRI Socio-economic series no. 3. Chatham, Natural Resources Institute, 1993
Blowfield, M.E. Dolly Goes to Paradise: an ethnographic study of the sex industry in Surabaya; Washington DC, Academy for Educational Development, 1992
Book chapters
Blowfield, M.E. Business, Corporate Responsibility, and Poverty Reduction. In Utting & Marques, Business and Poverty, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010
Blowfield, M.E. (in press) Conceptualising the business-poverty relationship.Law, Ethics and Economics.
Blowfield, M.E. Multi-stakeholder approaches to strategic change. In Cunningham & Harney, Corporate strategy, Oxford University Press, 2010
Blowfield, M.E. ETI a multi-stakeholder approach. In Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: codes of conduct in the global economy; Jenkins, R., Pearson, R., Seyfang, G eds, London, Earthscan, 2002, pp 184-195
Blowfield, M.E. Fundamentals of Ethical Trading/Sourcing in Poorer Countries. In A Guide To Developing Agricultural Markets and Agro-Enterprises; Giovannucci, D. ed, Washington DC, World Bank, 2000
Blowfield, M.E., Malins, A., Nelson, V., Maynard, Gallat, S. Ethical Trade and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods. In Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: what contribution can we make? Carney, D. ed, London, Department for International Development, 1998
Policy analysis
Blowfield, M.E. Business and Poverty. UN Research Institute for Social Development, 2009
Blowfield, M.E., Toulmin, C., Greenhalgh, P. Working Practices in Cocoa in Cτte dIvoire; Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate and Confectionery Association, London, 2001
Blowfield, M.E. (ed.) Review to Identify the Current State of Knowledge on the Environmental and Socio-Economic Impact of Fisheries Agreements; Department for International Development, London, 1997
Blowfield, M.E. The Indonesian Shipping Industry: a description of the industry and a study of the sexual behaviour of Indonesian and foreign sailors in Indonesia; Washington DC, USAID, 1992
Blowfield, M.E. Does Bo Know Nike? Report for the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, Jakarta, 1991
Blowfield, M.E. Working Wages in Asia: a comparative study of wages and minimum physical needs in selected Asian countries; Report for the Asian-American Free Labor Institute, Jakarta, 1991
Conference Papers and Presentations
Multi-stakeholder engagement in global governance Foreign Policy Centre, London, 2008
Constraints on business leadership European Academy for Business and Society, Barcelona, 2007
Critiquing the business case for sustainability Business and Development Conference, Copenhagen, 2007
Understanding innovation for sustainability International Conference on Sustainability, Leeds, 2007
The Market Doesnt Care: executives on how short-term investment poses a threat to globalization World Business Council for Sustainable Development executive meeting, New York, 2006
Mr Magoo at the Wheel: executives on the impact of short-term investment on long-term societies Capital Markets and Corporate Governance conference, University of Illinois, 2006
More than a Feeling? What we know about CSRs impact International Conference on CSR and Development, London, 2005
Corporate Social Responsibility: towards a critical agenda Royal Institute for International Affairs/Chatham House, 2005
Going Global: how to identify and manage societal expectations in supply chains European Academy for Business in Society conference, 2004 (prize for top contribution to CSR debate)
CSR as a Global Ethic Inter-disciplinary Conference on CSR, International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, University of Nottingham, 2004
Corporate Responsibility and Voluntary Codes Watson Center for International Studies, Brown University, 2004
Corporate Social Responsibility: the emergence of a global ethic and its consequences for the South Copenhagen Business School, 2003
International Corporate Responsibility Standards and Governance. Presentations to George Washington University, Sloan MIT and Columbia Business School, 2002
Corporate Responsibility: catalyst for change? US Business Symposium, Washington DC, June 2002
Cocoa and Slavery in West Africa. British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Cocoa Task Force, London, 2001
Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and Developing Nations International Conference on Sustainable Development, Manchester, UK, 2001
Ethical Trade and African Horticulture Ethical Trade and Horticulture Conferences, London, 2001, 2000, 1999
Ethical Trade and African Horticulture Zimbabwe Horticulture Promotion Council Workshops on Ethical Trade, Harare, Zimbabwe, 2000, 1999
Ethical Sourcing: a contribution to sustainability or a diversion? UK Department for International Development Natural Resource Advisors Conference, 1999
Social and Environmental Responsibility in Agriculture European horticulture industry workshop on good agriculture practice, 2000
Standards for Sustainability International Forum on Agriculture Standards conference, Wisconsin, 1999
Ethical Trade and Sustainability International Environment and Sustainability Conference, 1999