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Department of Management, Society and Communication
- Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
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I am primarily interested in transnational economic and environmental governance, with focus on overlaps and tensions between private authority and public regulation. My research, fieldwork, teaching and policy work is informed by international political economy approaches, global value chain analysis and convention theory.
I also analyze business-government-civil society interactions, economic development and environmental upgrading trajectories in global value chains — especially in Africa and in the global South. I am particularly interested in how sustainability labels, certifications and codes of conduct shape power relations in global value chains, and in how different forms of partnerships affect sustainability outcomes.
Finally, I am involved in projects critically examining the role of celebrities and branding in these processes, new forms of development aid, changing corporate social and environmental responsibility practices, and cause-related marketing.
I am currently one of the editors of Review of International Political Economy.
- International Political Economy
- Global Value Chains and Production Networks
- Business and Development
- Sustainability
- Cause-related marketing, Brand Aid, role of celebrity mediation
- Political economy of development and of Africa
- Partnerships for sustainability
- “Perspectives on Governance and Sustainable Development,” PhD course
- “Applied International Political Economy,” International Business and Politics Programme, MSc
- “Responsible Value Chains: A Path to Sustainable Development?” Business and Development Studies Programme, MSc
- “Africa, Global Value Chains and Development,” Business and Development Studies Programme, MSc
- “Brand Aid: Cause-related Marketing, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Ethical Consumption”, Elective course, BSc/MSc
Interested in supervising in the areas of:
- Transnational Environmental Governance
- Business and sustainability
- Social and environmental labels and certification
- Ethical and sustainable consumption
- Global value chains and production networks (especially in the agro-food sector)
- Cause-related marketing and brand aid
- New forms of CSR and corporate philanthropy
- Governance in North-South economic relations
- Business, trade and development (especially in Africa)
- Convention theory and management of quality/symbolic value.
Books:
2022 |
Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development Partnerships in Tanzania, James Currey/Boydell & Brewer: Martelsham, UK and Rochester, NY– co-editor with Christine Noe and Daniel Brockington. Open access, available here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847013224/contested-sustainability/ |
2019 |
Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains, Zed Books: London and New York. |
2019 |
Handbook of Global Value Chains, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham – co-editor with Gary Gereffi and Gale Raj-Reichert. |
Articles:
2023 | “Theorizing Power and Inequality in Global Value Chains,” Global Networks, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 679-686 – with Jennifer Bair & Mark Dallas http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob.12456 |
2023 | “Entangled Chains of Global Value and Wealth,” Review of International Political Economy – with Jennifer Bair, Leonard Seabrooke & Dungan Wigan https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2220268 |
2023 | “State Action and Inaction in the Shaping of Value and Wealth Entanglements: The Role of Singapore in the Global ‘Gold Chain’”, Environment and Planning A, with Lotte Thomsen & Karen Lai https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X231181128 |
2022 | “Power and Inequality in Global Value Chains: A Taxonomy and an Illustrative Case Study,” Global Networks, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 755-771 – with Juliane Lang & Thando Vilakazi https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12411 |
2022 |
“Environmental upgrading in global value chains: A framework for analysis,” Economic Geography – with Aarti Krishnan and Valentina de Marchi https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2022.2100340 |
In: Global Policy, 30.6.2024
In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 30, No. 6, 12.2023, p. 2423-2439
In: Economic Geography, Vol. 99, No. 1, 1.2023, p. 25-50
In: Geoforum, Vol. 147, 12.2023
In: Global Networks, Vol. 23, No. 4, 10.2023, p. 755-771
In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 4, 10.2023, p. 679-686
Frederiksberg : PACSMAC 2023, 23 p. (PACSMAC Working Paper, No. 2.1)
In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2023, 88 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 2023/3) (CCRED Working Paper)
In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Vol. 55, No. 8, 11.2023, p. 1884-1905
In: The European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 35, No. 3, 6.2023, p. 453-482
In: Development and Change, Vol. 53, No. 5, 9.2022, p. 1059-1086
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 33-70 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, 315 p. (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 287-302 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
In: Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions. ed. /Rainer Diaz Bone; Guillemette de Larquier. Cham : Springer 2022, p. 1-18
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 71-102 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
In: Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication. ed. /Lilie Chouliaraki; Anne Vestergaard. Abingdon : Routledge 2022, p. 266-284
Frederiksberg : New Partnerships for Sustainability (NEPSUS) 2022, 4 p. (NEPSUS Overall Policy Brief)
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 3-32 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
WWW : PACSMAC 2022, 15 p. (PACSMAC Working Paper, No. 1.2)
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 162-206 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 3, 6.2022, p. 818-843
In: Contested Sustainability: The Political Ecology of Conservation and Development in Tanzania. . ed. /Stefano Ponte; Christine Noe; Dan Brockington. Woodbridge : James Currey 2022, p. 207-227 (Eastern Africa Series, Vol. 54)
In: World Development, Vol. 143, 7.2021
In: Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 86, 8.2021, p. 542-553
In: Competition & Change, Vol. 25, No. 3/4, 7.2021, p. 328-349
In: Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. . ed. /Dan Brockington; Christine Noe. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021, p. 383-420
In: Prosperity in Rural Africa?: Insights into Wealth, Assets, and Poverty from Longitudinal Studies in Tanzania. . ed. /Dan Brockington; Christine Noe. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021, p. 258-269
In: Rethinking Value Chains: Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism. . ed. /Florence Palpacuer; Alistair Smith. Bristol : Policy Press 2021, p. 56-79
In: Regulation and Governance, Vol. 15, No. 4, 10.2021, p. 1270-1285
In: Ocean & Coastal Management, Vol. 202, 3.2021
In: Structural Transformation in South Africa: The Challenges of Inclusive Industrial Development in a Middle-income Country. . ed. /Antonio Andreoni; Pamela Mondliwa; Simon Roberts; Fiona Tregenna. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2021, p. 143-164
In: Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 21, No. 2, 5.2021, p. 99–120
Abstract from SASE 32nd Annual Conference 2020 - Virtual, 2020
Abstract from SASE 32nd Annual Conference 2020 - Virtual, 2020
In: African Affairs, Vol. 119, No. 475, 4.2020, p. 203-223
In: New Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1.2020, p. 72-84
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 2020, 47 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 2020/3)
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 52, No. 4, 6.2020, p. 766-789
Abstract from SASE 32nd Annual Conference 2020 - Virtual, 2020
Paper presented at 35th EGOS Colloquium 2019, 2019
London : Zed Books 2019, 272 p.
In: Handbook on Global Value Chains. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Gary Gereffi; Gale Raj-Reichert. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 585–590
In: Handbook on Global Value Chains. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Gary Gereffi; Gale Raj-Reichert. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 120–137
In: Samfundsøkonomen, No. 4, 12.2019, p. 102-108
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, 612 p.
In: Handbook on Global Value Chains. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Gary Gereffi; Gale Raj-Reichert. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 1-27
In: Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3, 7.2019, p. 343–383
Paper presented at The Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019, 2019
In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2019, p. 666-694
In: Handbook on Global Value Chains. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Gary Gereffi; Gale Raj-Reichert. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 228–238
In: Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 19, No. 4, 7.2019, p. 803–828
In: Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy: The Second Great Transformation. . ed. /Gilles Allaire; Benoit Daviron. Abingdon : Routledge 2018, p. 71-94 (Critical Food Studies)
In: Geoforum, Vol. 89, 2.2018, p. 83-95
In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2018, p. 57-80
In: Regulation and Governance, Vol. 12, No. 1, 3.2018, p. 23-45
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2017, 37 p. (Working Paper / Department of Business and Politics, No. 92)
In: World Development, Vol. 94, 6.2017, p. 366-374
In: Transformations et Transitions dans L’agriculture et L’agro-alimentaire. ed. /Gilles Allaire; Benoit Daviron. Versailles : Editions Quae 2017, p. 339-363
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 44, No. 154, 2017, p. 683–684
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2017, 34 p. (NEPSUS Working Paper, No. 1, Vol. 2017)
Frederiksberg : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2017, 26 p. (NEPSUS Working Paper, No. 17-5)
Abingdon : Routledge 2017, 168 p. (Thirdworlds)
In: The Green Economy in the Global South. ed. /Stefano Ponte; Daniel Brockington. Abingdon : Routledge 2017 (Thirdworlds)
In: The African Affairs Reader: Key Texts in Politics, Development, and International Relations. . ed. /Nic Cheeseman; Lindsay Whitfield; Carl Death. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017, p. 129-147
In: Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, Vol. 98, No. 4, 12.2017, p. 335-337
Singapore : National University of Singapore 2016, 23 p. (GPN Working Paper Series, No. GPN2016_010)
In: World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry. . ed. /Antoni Verger; Christopher Lubienski; Gita Steiner-Khamsi. Abingdon : Routledge 2016, p. 90-104
In: Geoforum, Vol. 68, No. jan, 1.2016, p. 57-68
In: Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4, 4.2016, p. 12-23
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 47, No. 9, 9.2015, p. 1907-1925
In: Environmental Politics, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2015, p. 96-114
Paper presented at The 31st EGOS Colloquium 2015, 2015
In: Global Environmental Change, Vol. 34, No. September, 2015, p. 185-195
In: Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 38, No. april, 4.2015, p. 65-76
Abingdon : Taylor & Francis 2015, 140 p. (Third World Quarterly, No. 12, Vol. 36)
Abingdon : Routledge 2015, 160 p. (Environmental Politics, No. 1, Vol. 24)
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 12, 2015, p. 2197-2206
In: Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2014, p. 152-155
London : Pion Ltd. 2014, 244 p. (Environment and Planning A, No. 2, Vol. 46)
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, 13.2.2014, p. 65-87
In: Embedded: in Business, Politics & Society, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2014, p. 20-36
In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014, p. 195-223
In: Orchestration of the Global Network Organization. ed. /Torben Pedersen; Markus Venzin; Timothy M. Devinney; Laszlo Tihanyi. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing 2014, p. 463-486 (Advances in International Management, Vol. 27)
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, 13.2.2014, p. 1-21
Abingdon : Routledge 2014, 208 p. (Third World Quarterly, No. 1, Vol. 35)
Paper presented at Renouveler les approches institutionnalistes sur l'agriculture et l'alimentation, 2014
In: Geoforum, Vol. 54, 7.2014, p. 261-271
In: Geoforum, Vol. 54, 7.2014, p. 243–247
In: World Development, Vol. 64, 12.2014, p. 52-64
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2014, p. 353–372
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2014, p. 271-279
In: Food Policy, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2014, p. 228-240
In: International Political Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 3.2013, p. 107-111
In: International Political Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 3.2013, p. 92-93
In: Science, Vol. 341, No. 6150, 6.9.2013, p. 1067-1068
In: European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 25, No. 3, 7.2013, p. 408–427
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 4, 2013, 1 p., p. 3
In: Competition and Change, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2013, p. 299-318
In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 13, No. 4, 10.2013, p. 459-477
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 131, 2012, p. 135-150
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 131, 2012, p. 136-137
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 131, 2012, p. 149-150
In: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 131, 2012, p. 135-136
Paper presented at International Conference on Governing Sustainable Biofuels, 2012
In: Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, 2012, p. 300-315
In: Environment and Planning A, Vol. 43, No. 9, 2011, p. 2060-2075
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2009, p. 301-317
In: Science as Culture, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2009, p. 483-495
In: Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2009, p. 236-257
In: World Development, Vol. 37, No. 10, 2009, p. 1637-1650
In: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4, 6.2008, p. 711-729
In: Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1.2008, p. 6-32
In: Economy and Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, 8.2008, p. 365-392
In: Economy and Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2008, 24 p., p. 315-338
In: World Development, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2008, p. 159-175
In: Development and Change, Vol. 38, No. 5, 9.2007, p. 933-955
In: Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 24, No. 2, 6.2007, p. 179-193
In: Development Policy Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1.2007, p. 113-138
In: African Affairs, Vol. 106, No. 424, 2007, p. 437-462
In: Economy and Society, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2005, p. 1-31
In: Food Policy, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2005, p. 284-301
In: Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2002, p. 248-272
In: World Development, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2002, p. 1099-1122
In: European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2001, p. 1-29
In: Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2001, p. 81-100
In: World Development, Vol. 28, No. 6, 6.2000, p. 1017-1030
In: Economy and Society, Vol. 29, No. 3, 8.2000, p. 390-417
In: Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1998, p. 316-348
Frderiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 18.9.2023
In: Søfart, 1.3.2021
London : Informa plc 30.11.2020
København : Radio Loud 2020
København : Videnskab.dk 13.12.2019
Frederiksberg : CBS Wire 16.12.2019
In: Søfart, No. 15, 2018, p. 16
In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. . ed. /Andreas Rasche; Mette Morsing; Jeremy Moon. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2017, p. 427-450
London : The London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE 30.11.2015
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 5, 11.2013, p. 4
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 5, 11.2013, p. 12
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 3, 10.2012, p. 22-25
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Commodifying Compassion: Linking Ethical Consumption with Everyday Humanitarianism
Debat: Klimaopråbets medunderskrivere
Virksomheder flytter grænser for bæredygtighed
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Launch of the Copenhagen Sustainability Initiative (COSI)
- New Partnerships for Sustainability
- Power and Inequality in global Production Systems
- The Hidden Costs of Supply Chains
- The paradoxes of climate-smart coffee
- Environmental Maritime Governance in Kenya (EMG-K): Policy, Practice and Prospects for the abatement of shipping air emissions
- The political economy of value: What wine teaches us about the global economy and its inequalities
Name of contractual partner | Duration of activity | Type of activity |
University of Johannesburg, CCRED | 2020 - | Distinguished Visiting Professor |
Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova | 2020-2021 | Visiting Professor |
Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Torino | 2023-2024 | Visiting Professor |