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Peter Lund-Thomsen

Peter Lund-Thomsen
Associate professor , Ph.D.
Peter Lund-Thomsen

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18A
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3192
Cell phone: + 45 6080 7415
Fax:+45 3815 3840
E-mail: plt.ikl@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility and Center for Business and Development Studies

My research focuses on the role of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) in developing countries. I theorize and empirically investigate how CSER policies of internationally branded companies are implemented in global supply chains, and how they affect supplier competitiveness, work conditions, and the environment in the South. In my Ph.D. I focused on analyzing the impact of Danish donor aid on the capacity of South African environmental NGOs.
Recently, I completed a major study of global value chains, industrial clusters, and work conditions in the football manufacturing industries in Pakistan, India, and China. At present I am involved in two different research projects that seek to develop new research agendas in two interrelated areas: (i) SMEs and CSER in developing economies; and (ii) the relationship between global value chains, industrial clusters and poverty reduction in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC).
I have co-edited two special issues of the Journal of Business Ethics which is on the Financial Times Top 45 List of Management Journals. One dealt with public-private partnerships in developing countries and the other with new perspectives on CSER in the developing work.
To date I have had 12 articles accepted in internationally peer-reviewed journals. The merits of my research have been independently verified by the Danish Development Research Council and the Danish Social Science Research Council through four major research grants.

Primary research areas

  • CSER in Developing Countries
  • Ethical and Fair Trade
  • Impact Assessment
  • Global Value Chains and Clusters
  • Industrial Upgrading & Competitiveness
  • The International Football, Garment and Leather Tanning Industries
  • South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Latin America

Administrative functions

Course coordinator: CMI Elective Corporate Social Responsibility in Action: A Path to Sustainable Development


Selected publications

Peer Reviewed Publications
Lund-Thomsen, P. CSR in Industrial Clusters: An Overview of the Literature, Corporate Governance: the International Journal of Business in Society, Under Review
Lund-Thomsen, P. What Do Workers Want? Labor Agency in the Football Manufacturing Industry of Sialkot, Pakistan. Geoforum. Under Review
Lund-Thomsen, P. Nadvi, K., Chan, A., Khara, K. and Xue, H.  Labour in Global Production Networks: A Comparative Study of Workers Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India, and Pakistan, Development and Change, Under Review.
Lund-Thomsen, P. and N. Costa, Sustainable Procurement in the United Nations, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2011, 42, pp. 55-72.
Nadvi, K. and. P. Lund-Thomsen, Xue, H. and N. Khara. Playing Against China: Global Value Chains and Labor Standards in the International Sporting Goods Industry, Global Networks, 2011, 11(3), pp.  334-354.
Khan, FR and P. Lund-Thomsen, CSR as Imperialism: Towards a Phenomenological Approach to CSR in the Developing World, Journal of Change Management, 11(1), 2011, pp. 73-20.
Jeppesen, S. and P. Lund-Thomsen, Introduction to “New Perspectives on Business, Development, and Society” Special Issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, 93(Supp 2), 2010, p. 139-142.
Lund-Thomsen, P. and K. Nadvi, Clusters, Chains, and Compliance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance in the South Asian Football Manufacturing Industry, Journal of Business Ethics, 93 (Supp. 2), 2010,  pp. 201-222.
Lund-Thomsen, P. and K. Nadvi, Global Value Chains, Local Collective Action and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Empirical Evidence, Business Strategy and the Environment, 19(1), 2010, pp. 1-13.
Lund-Thomsen, P. and D. Reed, Editorial as Part of the Publication of a Special Issue on Business Partnerships for Development, Journal of Business Ethics, 90(Suppl.1), 2009, pp. 1-2.
Lund-Thomsen, P. Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of the Kasur Tanneries Pollution Control Project, Journal of Business Ethics. 90 (Supp. 1), 2009, pp. 55-78.
Lund-Thomsen, P. The Global Sourcing and Codes of Conduct Debate: Five Myths and Five Recommendations, Development and Change, 39(6), 2008, pp. 1005-1018. 
Lund-Thomsen, P. et al. Critical Perspectives on CSR and Development – What We Know, What We Don’t, and What We Need to Know, International Affairs, 82(5), 2006, pp. 987-987
Lund-Thomsen, P, Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa: the Role of Community Mobilizing in Environmental Governance, International Affairs, 81(3), 2005, pp. 619-633.
Lund-Thomsen, P, Towards a Critical Framework on Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility in the South: the case of Pakistan, Development, 47(2), 2004, pp. 106-113.
Other Publications
Lund-Thomsen, P. and K Nadvi, Child Labor and Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: The Atlanta Agreement and Football Manufacturing in South Asia, in Utting, P. and D. Reed, Business, Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?, Palgrave, London, 2012
Khara, N. and P. Lund-Thomsen, Making a Last Minute Save? Value Chain Struggles, Work Organization, and Outcomes for Labor in Football the Manufacturing Industry of Jalandhar, India, Working Paper no. 02-2011. Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, CBS, Copenhagen, 2011.
Lund-Thomsen, P. and K Nadvi, Global Value Chains, Local Clusters, and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Assessment of the Sports Goods Clusters in Sialkot, Pakistan and Jalandhar, India, Technical Paper no. 17, United Nations Industrial Development Programme, United Nations Industrial Development Programme, Vienna, 2009.


Last updated by Peter Lund-Thomsen 20/01/2012