Copenhagen Lectures

International Center for Business and Politics is continuing the international series of lectures called Copenhagen Lectures.

Every year one of the lead researchers in Business and Politics will be invited to give lectures at CBS. Here they will give there personal answer on what actually is the state of the art within an elected research area.

The purpose of Copenhagen Lectures is to the gather the internationally viewed most distinguished scientists from the disciplines political science, sociology, economics and history to present discuss and evaluate the development within these disciplines. Furthermore the purpose is to contribute to the development of comparative political economy and at the same time to introduce the currently most developed scientific questions and answers to a Danish audience of students, scientists and others.

This years Guest Speaker is Professor Grahame Thompson from Open University in England

Grahame Thompson has spent most of his academic career at the Open University. In recent years he has been visiting professor at Warwick University, Trinity College Dublin, Manchester University, and currently, he is a visiting professor at the International Center for Business and Politics, CBS. He is a prolific scholar covering areas within international political economy, international relations, comparative political economy, and political sociology. He has written on multinational companies, religious fundamentalism, networks and hierarchies, territoriality, global corporate citizenship and other globalization issues. Among his most important publications is Globalization in Question from 1996 and 1999 (both co-authored with Paul Hirst). A third edition of the book will appear in 2008, now jointly written with Simon Bromley and the late Paul Hirst.

Professor Grahame Thompson will give two lectures:

• April 29 2008 from 15.00 to17.00

  Alternative Globalizations: Challenges for the Business Environment

• May 6 2008 from 15.00 to 17.00

  Global Citizenship: Corporate Activity in Context

Alternative Globalizations: Challenges for the Business Environment

Guest Lecture by Professor Grahame Thompson arranged by International Center for Business and Politics.

Globalization is a heavily contested concept and there are several alternative claims to say what it amounts to. The first part of this presentation assesses these claims before moving on to consider the ones that most centrally impinge upon the business environment. In doing this the argument is that we should still remain sceptical about even the more serious of these claims. This relates to the second part of the presentation where the structural limitations to the idea of a truly global international economic system are stressed, and the governance implications of these limitations identified.

Tuesday April 29th 2008 from 15.00 to 17.00

Global Citizenship: Corporate Activity in Context

Guest Lecture by Professor Grahame Thompson arranged by International Center for Business and Politics.

Many formulations of contemporary globalization suggest that citizenship is being radically transformed by processes of transnationalism. And the business world is reacting to this sense of change by firms claiming to be global corporate citizens. But what exactly does global corporate citizenship mean and what are its implications? In this presentation a preliminary response is made to these questions by situating corporate citizenship within the wider framework of constitutional debates about private economic law and the juridicalization of the international sphere more generally.

Thuesday May 6th 2008 from 15.00 to 17.00

Tid og sted

29. april 2008

15.00 to17.00

6. maj 2008

15.00 to17.00