The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain - Insights from Sustainability Certification Practices in Ghana

This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains. Taking the case of a cocoa sustainability certification project in Ghana, the study examines the implementation process of such a transnational CSR intervention and its outcomes regarding the local governance and institutional environment of the cocoa sector in Ghana. The study deploys a theoretical framework based on Global Value Chain Analysis and a neo-Gramscian approach to Global Governance to assess transnational CSR as a concept and strategy that reflect power struggles in global production fields.

Franziska Ollendorf is a research associate in the working group Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries (SusLAND) at the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Her research centers on sustainability governance and institutional conditions for a sustainability transition in the agricultural sector, with a particular focus on the global cocoa-chocolate value chain.