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Department of Management, Society and Communication
- Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
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I am interested in understanding processes of economic development in the context of an ever changing global economy.
My research focuses on the challenges and opportunities that Sub-Saharan African countries face in industrializing in the 21st century. It analyses the emergence and evolution of manufacturing and agribusiness industries, especially how local firms build capabilities to compete in global production networks and the roles of government industrial policy, foreign direct investment and migrant capitalists. I also examine industrial relations and working conditions in local and foreign owned supplier firms producing in global value chains, and how they are affected by global buyers’ purchasing practices, firms’ labor control regimes, and workers’ actions. Lastly, I am examining how countries can pursue green industrialization and circular economy principles.
- industrialization and industrial policy in Africa
- comparative political economy of development
- global value chains and production networks
- labor studies and economic development
- green industrialization and circular economy
Interested in supervising in the areas of: global value chains, including economic, social and environmental upgrading; foreign direct investment, industrial policy and economic development; the political economy of industrial relations and decent work; green industrialization
2020 Technological Capabilities, Upgrading, and Value Capture in Global Value Chains: Local Apparel and Floriculture Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Cornelia Staritz, Ayelech Tiruwha Melese, Sameer Azizi, Economic Geography 96(3): 195-218, open access.
2020 Global Value Chains, Industrial Policy and Economic Upgrading in Ethiopia’s Apparel Sector’, with Cornelia Staritz and Mike Morris, Development and Change 51(4): 1018-1043.
2021 Local supplier firms in Madagascar’s apparel export industry: Upgrading paths, transnational social relations and regional production networks’, with Cornelia Staritz, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53(4): 763-784, open access.
2021 The Learning Trap in Late Industrialization: Local Firms and Capability Building in Ethiopia’s Apparel Export Industry’, Lindsay Whitfield and Cornelia Staritz, Journal of Development Studies
57(6): 980-1000.
2015 The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A comparative perspective, with Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur and Anne Mette Kjær, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
: Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023, 9 p. (Centre for Business and Development Studies. Policy Brief, No. January 2023)
In: Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 32, No. 4, 8.2023, p. 956-974
In: Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 59, No. 10, 10.2023, p. 1508-1530
Johannesburg : University of Johannesburg 2023, 6 p. (SARChI Industrial Development Policy Brief Series, No. PB 2023-02)
Johannesburg : University of Johannesburg 2023, 39 p. (SARChI Industrial Development Working Paper Series, No. WP 2023-01)
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023, 34 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 2023/2)
København : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2022, 71 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 2022/3)
In: Ecological Economics, Vol. 194, 4.2022
In: African Affairs, Vol. 121, No. 485, 2022, 5 p., p. E87-E91
Pretoria : University of Johannesburg 2021, 53 p. (SARChI Industrial Development Working Paper Series)
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 53, No. 4, 6.2021, p. 763-784
In: The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 57, No. 6, 2021, p. 980-1000
Bonn : Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik 2020, 98 p. (Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik. Discussion Paper)
In: Development and Change, Vol. 51, No. 4, 7.2020, p. 1018-1043
In: The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development. ed. /Arkebe Oqubay; Justin Yifu Lin. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2020, p. 931-949 (Oxford Handbooks)
In: The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy. ed. /Arkebe Oqubay; Christopher Cramer; Ha-Joon Chang; Richard Kozul-Wright. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2020, p. 842-867 (Oxford Handbooks)
In: Economic Geography, Vol. 96, No. 3, 2020, p. 195-218
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics : Oxford University Press 2019
Roskilde : Centre of African Economies, Roskilde University 2019, 33 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2019: 3)
In: The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy. ed. /Fantu Cheru; Christopher Cramer; Arkebe Oqubay. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2019, p. 704-720
In: Handbook on Global Value Chains. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Gary Gereffi; Gale Raj-Reichert. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 385-402
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2018, 378 p.
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2018, 37 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2018: 3)
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2018, 23 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2018:2)
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2017, 40 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2017: 3)
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2017, 57 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2017: 4)
In: Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 17, No. 3, 7.2017, p. 535-556
Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017, 415 p.
Roskilde : Roskilde Universitet 2017, 43 p. (CAE Working Papers, No. 2017: 1)
In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 3.2015, p. 135-158
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015, 343 p.
In: New Actors and Alliances in Development. ed. /Lisa Ann Richey; Stefano Ponte. Abingdon : Routledge 2014, p. 126-144 (Thirdworlds)
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2014, p. 126-144
In: State-Business Relations and Industrial Policy: Current policy and research debates. . ed. /Dirk Willem te Welde. London : DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme 2013, p. 21-25
In: Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, 3.2012, p. 308-321
In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, 5.2012, p. 239–260
In: Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, 3.2012, p. 301-307
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2011, 43 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2011:27)
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2011, 36 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2011:22)
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2011, 40 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2011:28)
In: International Negotiation, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2011, p. 341-366
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2011, 50 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2011:27)
København : Dansk Center for Internationale Studier og Menneskerettigheder 2011, p. 34 (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2011:15)
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 5, 2010, p. 721-737
In: African Affairs, Vol. 108, 2009
In: Turning Points in African Democracy. ed. /Abdul Raufu Mustapha; Lindsay Whitfield. Woodbridge : James Currey 2009, p. 1-12
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. : Oxford University Press 2009
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. : Oxford University Press 2009
In: Turning Points in African Democracy. ed. /Abdul Raufu Mustapha; Lindsay Whitfield. Woodbridge : James Currey 2009, p. 202-228
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009, p. 185-216
In: Turning Points in African Democracy. ed. /Abdul Raufu Mustapha; Lindsay Whitfield. : James Currey 2009
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009, p. 1-26
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies of Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009, p. 27-44
: Oxford University Press 2009
Woodbridge : James Currey 2009, 255 p.
In: The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors. . ed. /Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009, p. 74-107
In: Professional Identities: Policy and Practice at Work in Business and Bureaucracy. . ed. /Fiona Moore. : Berghahn Books 2007
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 33, No. 109, 2006
In: Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2005
In: Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2024
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 17.1.2022
Frderiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2022
In: The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development and International Relations. . ed. /Nic Cheeseman; Lindsay Whitfield; Carl Death. : Oxford University Press 2017, p. 1-11
In: The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development and International Relations. . ed. /Nic Cheeseman; Lindsay Whitfield; Carl Death. : Oxford University Press 2017, p. 15-29
In: The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development and International Relations. . ed. /Nic Cheeseman; Lindsay Whitfield; Carl Death. : Oxford University Press 2017, p. 115-128
In: Information, 15.9.2017
European Chips Act and the Global Race in Semiconductor Industrial Policy
Letter: Origins of the east Asia miracle relied heavily on protectionism
Project CREATE launched to make RMG industry's transition into circular economy easier
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