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Igangværende projekter



Successful African Firms and Institutional Change

The research project ‘Successful African Firms and Institutional Change’ has been accepted by the Danida Research Council (also called the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research, abbreviated FFU).
The project grant is approx. 8.950.000 DKK for the 4 ½ years project, which will run from 1st January 2012 to 30th June 2016.
CBDS will undertake the research in collaboration with Roskilde University (Department of Society and Globalisation), University of Nairobi (Department for International Studies) Kenya, University of Dar-es-Salaam (the UD-Business School) Tanzania and University of Zambia (Department of Geography), Zambia.
For further information: Contact Assoc. Prof. Søren Jeppesen
See more details: www.cbs.dk/cbds/safic  

Youth and Employment: The role of Entrepreneurship in African economies

Søren Jeppesen and Thilde Langevang are the CBDS members of the research project which is lead by Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, and includes partners in the UK (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor), Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. The project runs from 2009-2013, funded by the Danida Development Research Council (FFU) and aims at investigating the role of entrepreneurship in employment generation for young people in selected African countries. The project focuses on four key area (entrepreneurship, youth, enterprises and institutions) and their interaction.
See project website: http://geo.ku.dk/yemp/
 
Contact: Søren Jeppesen

Social movements in the global clothing industry: a comparative European perspective.

Lotte Thomsen (CBDS) and Florence Palpacuer (University of Montpellier) presently conducts a joint project on social movements in the global clothing value chain.
The project compares the emergence and role of such movements in Denmark, France and the UK.
Contact Lotte Thomsen for further details: lt.ikl@cbs.dk

The International Sporting Goods Industry

"Global Value Chains, Industrial Clusters, and Corporate Responsibility in the International Sporting Goods Industry" is a project investigating whether joint corporate responsibility initiatives in Pakistan and India enhance or undermine the competitiveness of local producers and the conditions of workers vis-à-vis their Chinese counterparts that have not engaged in similar joint corporate responsibility initiatives.
Read more about the project
Contact: Peter Lund-Thomsen

Companies in Developing Countries

A theoretical look into the borderland of Business studies and Development studies.
Contact: Michael W. Hansen

The rise and fall of enterprise unionism in Malaysia

Based on several field trips in Malaysia from the days of government-supported in-house unionism in the early 1980s to legalization of enterprise unions in the foreign controlled electronics industry in the end of the 1980s to the political acceptance of the option for regional electronic industry unions in the end of the 2000s, the research project aims to explain the rise and fall of enterprise unions in the Malaysian society as a case of institutional change mediated by Malaysian politics, business dynamics, industrial trade unions and civil society organizations.
Project contact: Peter Wad - pw.ikl@cbs.dk

Vietnamese clothing retailers

Lotte Thomsen (CBDS) currently explores how a number of Vietnamese clothing producers use the knowledge they have gained from working in global clothing value chains to move into the retail sector, focusing on the local and regional market.
Based on fieldwork conducted in Vietnam.
 
Contact Lotte Thomsen for further details: lt.ikl@cbs.dk

Youth employment and entrepreneurship in Mali

The research is commissioned by the Royal Danish Embassy in Bamako as part of the preparation of a new Growth and Employment Programme in Mali.
The study examines the factors that enhance and constrain young people’s efforts at generating decent employment and viable entrepreneurship activities in different rural and urban localities.
 
The study is led by Thilde Langevang (CBDS) and Isaie Dougnon (FLASH, University of Bamako).
 
Contact: Thilde Langevang's profile - or by email: tl.ikl@cbs.dk

The research philosophy of critical realism and its relevance for business and development studies

Critical realism has emerged as an alternative research philosophy to positivism and constructivism in the 1970s and carved out a position of relevance in social science studies during the 1990s and 2000s. The project aims critically assessing its strength and weaknesses for business and development studies in the 2010s and outlining routes of incremental and radical revisions of its foundation in research philosophy.
Project contact: Peter Wad - pw.ikl@cbs.dk

Strategic Alliances and Organisational Change

The research project applies a culture perspective to investigating the relationship between partners in international strategic alliances in Vietnam. In an attempt to refute the prevalent notion that cultural difference is a barrier to cooperation, this research project presupposes that diversity is a strength and that there are synergies embedded in cultural diversity. (PhD project)
Contact: Linda Harrison

Governance of Sustainability and CSR in Emerging Market Supply Chains – Contracts, Relations and Institutions

I am focusing on best practices of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the challenges for MNCs of implementing sustainability and CSR in supply chains in foreign, primarily emerging and developing markets.
With a point of departure in development studies and international business, I draw on theories of political economy and comparative institutional – hereunder legal – theory. Of special interest is the interplay of contractual, communicatory and managerial practices and strategies of MNCs, subsidiaries and suppliers in relation to implementation and governance of sustainability and CSR in supply chains.
Contact: Eskil Riskær: ekr.ikl@cbs.dk


Sidst opdateret af Sameer Azizi 23.01.2012