Prof. Dr. Janina Grabs

Bennett, Elizabeth A., & Grabs, Janina. (2025). How can sustainable business models distribute value more equitably in global value chains? Introducing “value chain profit sharing” as an emerging alternative to fair trade, direct trade, or solidarity trade. Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 34(2), 581–601. https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12666

Macdonald, K., Diprose, R., Grabs, J., Schleifer, P., Alger, J., Bahruddin, Brandao, J., Cashore, B., Chandra, A., Cisneros, P., Delgado, D., Garrett, R., & Hopkinson, W. (2024). Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable agro-commodity governance: The state of knowledge and future research directions [Journal-article]. Earth System Governance, 22, 100227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2024.100227

Marx, A., Depoorter, C., Fernandez de Cordoba, S., Verma, R., Araoz, M., Auld, G., Bemelmans, J., Bennett, E. A., Boonaert, E., Brandi, C., Dietz, T., Fouilleux, E., Grabs, J., Gulbrandsen, L. H., Harrison, J., Heilmayr, R., Hernandez, A., Hoekman, B., Lambert, S. R., et al. (2024). Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges [Journal-article]. Global Policy, 15(4), 708–728. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13401

Jespersen, Kristjan, Grabs, Janina, & Gallemore, Caleb. (2024). Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria. Ecological Economics, 223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108229

Eggen, Michael, Heilmayr, Robert, Anderson, Patrick, Armson, Rebecca, Austin, Kemen, Azmi, Reza, Bayliss, Peter, Burns, David, Erbaugh, J.T., Ekaputri, Andini Desita, Gaveau, David L.A., Grabs, Janina, Greenbury, Aida, Gulagnar, Ibrahim, Hanu, Mansuetus Alsy, Hill, Tony, Leegwater, Marieke, Limberg, Godwin, Opal, Charlotte, et al. (2024). Smallholder participation in zero-deforestation supply chain initiatives in the Indonesian palm oil sector: Challenges, opportunities, and limitations. Elementa, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00099

Grabs, Janina, Carodenuto, Sophia, Jespersen, Kristjan, Adams, Marshall A., Camacho, Manuel Antonio, Celi, Giacomo, Chandra, Adelina, Dufour, Jeremy, zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K. H. J., Garrett, Rachael D., Lyons-White, Joss, McLeish, Moray, Niehues, Ina, Silverman, Sofia, & Stone, Emily. (2024). The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains. Nature Sustainability, 7(5), 527–535. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01296-9

Chandra, Adelina, Garrett, Rachael D, Carlson, Kimberly M, Heilmayr, Robert, Stigler, Matthieu, Benedict, Jason J, & Grabs, Janina. (2024). How well does the implementation of corporate zero-deforestation commitments in Indonesia align with aims to halt deforestation and include smallholders? Environmental Research Letters, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad33d1

Grabs, J. (2023). Business accountability in the Anthropocene. Environmental Policy and Governance, 33(6), 615–630. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2081

Grabs, J. (2023). A theory of credible cross-temporal corporate commitments as goal-based private sustainability governance. Business Strategy and the Environment, 32(8), 5146–5160. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3423

Grabs, J., & Garrett, R. D. (2023). Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 188(3), 467–507. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05377-1

Silverman, S., Carodenuto, S., & Grabs, J. (2023). Adventures in Transdisciplinary Translation: Co-creating and Vetting a Novel Research Agenda on Trading Companies as Sustainability Governance Actors [Book]. SAGE Publications Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529628371

Garrett, R.D., Grabs, J., Cammelli, F., Gollnow, F., & Levy, S.A. (2022). Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado. World Development, 152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105814

Cammelli, F., Levy, S. A., Grabs, J., Valentim, J. F., & Garrett, R. D. (2022). Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector. Journal of Cleaner Production, 332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.130031

Dietz, T., & Grabs, J. (2022). Additionality and Implementation Gaps in Voluntary Sustainability Standards. New Political Economy, 27(2), 203–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2021.1881473

Grabs, J., Auld, G., & Cashore, B. (2021). Private regulation, public policy, and the perils of adverse ontological selection. Regulation and Governance, 15(4), 1183–1208. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12354

Grabs, J., Cammelli, F., Levy, S. A., & Garrett, R. D. (2021). Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies. Global Environmental Change, 70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102357

Grabs, J. (2021). Signaling Southern sustainability: When do actors use private or public regulatory authority to market tropical commodities? Journal of Environmental Management, 285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112053

Dietz, T., Grabs, J., & Chong, A. E. (2021). Mainstreamed voluntary sustainability standards and their effectiveness: Evidence from the Honduran coffee sector. Regulation and Governance, 15(2), 333–355. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12239

Grabs, J., & Carodenuto, S. L. (2021). Traders as sustainability governance actors in global food supply chains: A research agenda. Business Strategy and the Environment, 30(2), 1314–1332. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2686

Bennett, E.A., & Grabs, J. (2021). Rethinking the “necessary” trade-offs of distributing value to suppliers: An analysis of the profit-sharing model. In Carr Center Discussion Paper.

Dietz, T., Estrella Chong, A., Grabs, J., & Kilian, B. (2020). How Effective is Multiple Certification in Improving the Economic Conditions of Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Colombia’s Coffee Belt. Journal of Development Studies, 56(6), 1141–1160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2019.1632433

Grabs, J. (2020). Selling sustainability short?: The private governance of labor and the environment in the coffee sector. In Selling Sustainability Short?: The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108875325

Grabs, J. (2020). Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector. Regulation and Governance, 14(2), 362–387. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12212

Grabs, J., & Ponte, S. (2019). The evolution of power in the global coffee value chain and production network. Journal of Economic Geography, 19(4), 803–828. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbz008

Dietz, T., Auffenberg, J., Chong, A. E., Grabs, J., & Kilian, B. (2018). Indicators to compare and assess the institutional strength of voluntary sustainability standards in the global coffee industry. Data in Brief, 19, 570–585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.048

Dietz, T., Auffenberg, J., Estrella Chong, A., Grabs, J., & Kilian, B. (2018). The Voluntary Coffee Standard Index (VOCSI). Developing a Composite Index to Assess and Compare the Strength of Mainstream Voluntary Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry. Ecological Economics, 150, 72–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.03.026

Dietz, T., Estrella Chong, A., Font Gilabert, P., & Grabs, J. (2018). Women’s empowerment in rural Honduras and its determinants: insights from coffee communities in Ocotepeque and Copan. Development in Practice, 28(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1402862

Grabs, J., Langen, N., Maschkowski, G., & Schäpke, N. (2016). Understanding role models for change: a multilevel analysis of success factors of grassroots initiatives for sustainable consumption. Journal of Cleaner Production, 134, 98–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.061

Grabs, J., Kilian, B., Hernández, D.C., & Dietz, T. (2016). Understanding coffee certification dynamics: A spatial analysis of voluntary sustainability standard proliferation. International Food & Agribusiness Management Review, 3(19), 31–55. https://www.ifama.org/resources/Documents/v19i3/220160040.pdf

Grabs, J. (2015). The rebound effects of switching to vegetarianism. A microeconomic analysis of Swedish consumption behavior. Ecological Economics, 116, 270–279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.04.030