One of the world’s most severe problems today is poverty. Can it be solved with Fair Trade? During this thesis the topic of Fair Trade and the problems it has to face will be presented. First an introduction will be given on how Fair Trade works, how it developed and where it stands today. Then the problems and the criticisms it has to deal with will be illustrated.  The main focus will be on the problem of the low market share of Fair Trade products and on consumer attitudes towards it. The aim is to find out restrictions and problems of Fair Trade products concerning consumer acceptance, for example reasons why consumers do not buy Fair Trade products and opportunities for further marketing activities to address those problems.  For the second part of this thesis, a quantitative study has been conducted by carrying out a survey among potential Fair Trade consumers, mainly students, which has brought insight into their actual attitude towards Fair Trade and their motivation for buying or not buying Fair Trade products. The results of this study confirm the problems defined in existing literature, which are most notably the high price, a lack of information and trust in Fair Trade and a lack of availability of Fair Trade products. In order to help more of the world’s poor to get out of poverty, it is important to address those problems so that the market share of Fair Trade products can increase.

This study addresses the question of the constitution of markets in advanced societies.Specifically, the article studies the role of the traveling trade show in creatingthe real time computing market, which is part of the US electronics sector, duringthe mid-1990’s. Real time computing products assist the transfer, storage and processingof digital signals in real time and support many of the internet applicationswe use today.By applying ethnographic methods,we explore the general question ofhow economic actors cope with uncertainty in the phase of market-making and atthe cutting edge of technology. The paper makes two contributions to the existingliterature. First, it shows that the attempt to organize a trade show in real timecomputing was triggered by the uncertainty experienced by sellers regarding theidentity of prospective buyers and about the exact use to which they would put theemergent technology which is offered for sale. Secondly, we trace the history of anemergent market.We claim that trade shows for innovative products are importantvenues at which markets coalesce.The identification and ordering of market actors,the institutionalization of a distinct business culture and the social networks developedamong market actors and across the subsidiary markets provided the basicsocial infrastructure for what later became known as the real time computingindustry. / M2007-0244:1-PK / European Research Council ERC-2010- StG 263699-CEV / VR 2009–1958

Denna C-uppsats studerade ett urval av livsstilstidningen Vanity Fairs omslagsbilder med hjälp av en semiotisk analys. Detta för att belysa egenskaper i omslagsbilderna vilka kunde visa hur män och kvinnor representerades och vilka ideal rörande fysiska attribut de uppvisade. Detta var uppsatsens syfte och frågeställningarna beträffade hur representationen av könen såg ut, om det fanns några tydliga skillnader och hur könsrollerna såg ut då båda könen figurerade på ett omslag. Frågeställningarna rörde även vilka ideal för män och kvinnor om fysiska attribut, om några, som porträtterades på omslagsbilderna och om, och då i så fall hur, de avvek från idealen. Materialet bestod av sex omslagsbilder från Vanity Fairs utgåvor under 2011. Metoden som användes för att göra studien var en semiotisk analys där Roland Barthes analysmodell med beteckning av första och andra graden applicerades. Detta för att kunna urskilja de tecken urvalet av omslagsbilder bestod av och vilka konnotationer dessa kunde framkalla hos tolkaren. Teoridelen bestående av litteratur kring representation, stereotyper och ideal i media samt tidigare forskning om Vanity Fairs omslagsbilder mellan 1983 och 2008 diskuterades men fungerade även som stöd för tolkningarna utifrån analysen av omslagsbilderna. Analysen av urvalet av Vanity Fairs omslagsbilder visade att representationen av könen inte hade kommit så långt i den utveckling som viss teorilitteratur ansåg hade skett inom media. Utvecklingen pekade mot en mer jämställd representation av män och kvinnor, nya maskuliniteter bestående av något känsligare och komplexa män hade även setts uppträda och männen hade kommit att allt oftare placeras i rollen som passivt sexobjekt. Denna roll hade kvinnor länge tilldelats men utvecklingen hade lett till mer självständiga och aktivare kvinnor. I de två omslagsbilder där båda könen figurerade kunde man se kvinnorna placerade i en relativt likvärdig position med männen men det var inte markant. Männen på omslagsbilderna visade vissa drag av de nya maskuliniteterna men kunde inte placeras i rollen som passivt sexobjekt, anspelning på sexualitet fann man istället främst hos kvinnorna. Alla personer levde upp i stort upp till de strikta ideal om fysiska attribut som teorilitteraturen benämnde som rådande i den västerländska kulturen. Enda undantaget var antydan till pannrynkor hos en av männen, vilken upplevdes vara karaktärsstärkande och bevisade att avvikelse från ideal accepteras i högre utsträckning för män än kvinnor. Vanity Fairs omslagsbilder verkade befästa traditionella representationer om män och kvinnor där kvinnorna förväntades vara mer sexuellt utmanande än männen och där idealen de uppvisade var starkt sammanbundna med dessa traditionella representationer.

Thesis (Ph.D)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009. / Prepared for: Dept. of Accounting. Title from title-page of electronic thesis. Bibliography: leaves 95-98.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2008.

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Recent research on organizational justice suggests 3 elements of process-related justice: procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice. Early research on the fair process effect indicates that fair procedures in general can help to ameliorate the effects of negative outcomes. This study examined the relative importance of each specific process element in accounting for the fair process effect. In addition, this study examined whether there are substitutable effects among the process elements such that high fairness on one element substitutes for low fairness on another element. Administrative Assistants working at a university read 48 hypothetical profiles describing a supervisor's procedural,interpersonal and informational justice behaviors in handling a negative job-related outcome. Administrative Assistants provided overall judgments of the fairness of the situation. The policy capturing analysis indicated that the weights given to the fairness cues varied somewhat across individuals. Hierarchical cluster analysis indicated that participants' fairness policies could be grouped into 3 homogenous clusters: two "main effects clusters" and an "interaction cluster." The first main effects cluster equally weighted procedural, interpersonal and informational justice in their overall fairness evaluations. The second main effects cluster favored procedural justice over the other two forms of justice. Finally, participants in the interaction cluster utilized the three two-way interactions between the forms of justice. Between-subject analyses indicated that the available demographic and background variables were not related to the judges' policies. Research and practical implications are discussed. / Ph. D.

This study extends the research done by Winders (2001) and Orden et al. (1999) on the passage of the 1996 farm bill, the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (FAIR). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, I argue that Democrats and Republicans were affected differently by a number of influences. Democratic members of Congress appear to have been influenced most by state or district dependence on federal agriculture payments and the timing of the farm bill debate. Party control, on the other hand, seemed to have had a greater impact on Republicans. / Master of Arts