plmsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

  • Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
  • Centre for Sustainability
Peter
Lund-Thomsen
Professor with special responsibilities
,
PhD


Room: DH.Ø.2.33
Tel:
+4538153192
, Mobile:
+45 7156 8889
E-mail: pl.msc@cbs.dk
Presentation

My research investigates the economic, social, and environmental consequences of international trade between the Global North and the Global South. In particular, my research seeks to answer three questions:

  • Why do global value chains arise between the Global North and the Global South?
  • How do multinational companies organize this trade, particularly through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability requirements?
  • What are the economic, social, and environmental implications of this trade for local firms, farmers, workers, and communities in the Global South?

With an interdisciplinary background in development studies (i.e., North-South relations), environmental management, and labor studies, I am to develop global value chain analysis as a heuristic tool for empirical analysis, in ways that incorporate insights from CSR and corporate sustainability, political ecology, and worker-driven regulation theories. I have conducted detailed empirical studies of the formulation, implementation, monitoring and impact of CSR and sustainability policies in global garment, textile, leather, and bamboo value chains linking Europe and South Asia for more than 20 years. This research involves an epistemic commitment to giving voice to marginalized and suppressed stakeholders in South Asia, whose views and concerns are often ignored or sidelined in CSR and sustainability research, policy, and practice in Europe and North America.
 
This work has been been published in top-tier journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Business Ethics, Development and Change, Ecological Economics, and Global Networks. Additionally, I have authored and edited five books in the last five years, including my recent monograph, Rethinking Global Value Chains and CSR (Edward Elgar, 2022), and coauthored titles, Sustainable Garment Value Chains (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and two forthcoming books, Global Value Chains and Climate Change (Edward Elgar, 2025) and Nation-branding, Global Value Chains, and Sustainability (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Primary research areas
  • Corporate responsibility in the Global South
  • Global value and recycling chains
  • MSME industry clusters
  • Industry focus: garments, textiles, leather and bamboo
  • Area focus: Europe-South Asia
Administrative tasks

I represent the CBS in Ethical Trade Denmark, a multi-stakeholder initiative which seeks to promote sustainable and ethical trade.

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Courses

Responsible value chains: A path to sustainable development? Core course at M.Sc. in Business and Development Studies, Course coordinator and main teacher.

Supervision

Supervision of PhD, master-level and bachelor students in the broad fields of corporate responsibility and sustainability in developing country contexts.

Other teaching activities

Developing a working paper/teaching resource on sustainable value chain entrepreneurship with support from the Danish Entrepreneurship Foundation.

Selected publications

Rachel Alexander; Peter Lund-Thomsen / Sustainable Value Chains in the Global Garment Industry, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2023, 75 p. (Elements in Business Strategy)

Peter Lund-Thomsen / Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, 124 p. (Rethinking Business and Management)

Peter Lund-Thomsen; Lone Riisgaard; Sukhpal Singh; Shakil Ghori; Neil M. Coe / Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India, In: Development and Change, Vol. 52, No. 3, 5.2021, p. 504-532

Peter Lund-Thomsen / Corporate Social Responsibility : A Supplier-centered Perspective, In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 52, No. 8, 11.2020, p. 1700-1709

Peter Lund-Thomsen; Neil M. Coe / Corporate Social Responsibility and Labour Agency : The Case of Nike in Pakistan. In: Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 15, No. 2, 3.2015, p. 275-296

Publications sorted by:
2024
Aysha Siddika; Peter Lund-Thomsen; Anita Hammer; Marie Vahl / "Our Backs Are Against the Wall" : The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 'New Normal'.
In: Work, Employment and Society, 28.4.2024
Journal article > peer review
2023
Peter Lund-Thomsen / Garment Producer Nations as Ethical Sourcing Destinations : A Review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt?.
In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2023, p. 360-362
Book review > peer review
Rachel Alexander; Peter Lund-Thomsen / Sustainable Value Chains in the Global Garment Industry
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2023, 75 p. (Elements in Business Strategy)
Book > peer review
2022
Shakil Ghori; Peter Lund-Thomsen; Caleb Gallemore; Sukhpal Singh; Lone Riisgaard / Compliance and Cooperation in Global Value Chains : The Effects of the Better Cotton Initiative in Pakistan and India.
In: Ecological Economics, Vol. 193, 3.2022
Journal article > peer review
Peter Lund-Thomsen / Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, 124 p. (Rethinking Business and Management)
Book > peer review
2021
Peter Lund-Thomsen; Lone Riisgaard; Sukhpal Singh; Shakil Ghori; Neil M. Coe / Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India
In: Development and Change, Vol. 52, No. 3, 5.2021, p. 504-532
Journal article > peer review
Jinsun Bae; Peter Lund-Thomsen; Adam Lindgreen / Global Value Chains and Supplier Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility : A Case Study of Garment Manufacturers in Myanmar.
In: Global Networks, Vol. 21, No. 4, 10.2021, p. 653-680
Journal article > peer review
Peter Lund-Thomsen / Rethinking CSR in Global Value Chains
In: Baltic Rim Economies, No. 3, 6.2021, p. 14
Journal article
Peter Lund-Thomsen / Stephanie Barrientos, Gender and Work in Global Value Chains – Capturing the Gains?
In: Competition & Change, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1.2021, p. 127-130
Book review > peer review
Rachel Alexander; Peter Lund-Thomsen / Sustainable Value Chain Entrepreneurship : A Guidebook.
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2021, 118 p.
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Research Projects
Outside activities

Name of contractual partner

Duration of activity

Type of activity

Asiahouse

April-May 2018

Consultancy Report – Final Evaluation of the Project

Foundation for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises New Delhi

2019 – 2022

Research – Study of Women’s Entrepreneurship  in the Bamboo Value Chains of India (States of Assam, Meghalya, Madya Pradesh and Odisha)