• Scaling Up Corporate Social Responsibility: Coffee Farming in Chiapas, Mexico
    with Jill Haley Murphy and Jennifer Janisch Clifford
    In René Schmidpeter, Nicholas Capaldi, Samuel O. Idowu & Anika Stürenberg Herrera (eds.), International Dimensions of Sustainable Management: Latest Perspectives From Corporate Governance, Responsible Finance and Csr, Springer Verlag. pp. 231-248. 2019.
    Corporations are seeking new frameworks, practices, and tools for socially responsible management in their business operations. Restaurantes TOKS, which sells over half a million cups of coffee per month in their 134 restaurants in Mexico, is developing a project in Chiapas, Mexico, to improve productivity and address child labor practices and living wages for local coffee farmers in the village of Talquian. This case study presents TOKS’ Chiapas coffee project and its relationship to evolving p…Read more