Governing complementary responsibility goods through hybrid systems in a globalizing world

Stefan Mann ()

Journal of Socio-Economics in Agriculture (Until 2015: Yearbook of Socioeconomics in Agriculture), 2016, vol. 9, issue 1, 14-21

Abstract: In Sierra Leone, a Swiss company produces bioethanol using sustainability certification, and European NGOs collect donations against it. This paper describes these markets, related by complementarity, as responsibility goods, goods on which money is spent not for personal satisfaction, but for the sake of others. It then shows how both the different certification schemes for biofuels and the network of Southern and Northern NGOs acting against land grabbing are governed by a high degree of inter-organizational hybridity. It explains why credibility is always a key resource in such markets and why hybrid governance schemes contribute to obtaining this credibility.

Keywords: Land Grabbing; Advocacy; Hybridity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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