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Faith Hatani

Associate Professor

Subjects
Value chain Multinational company Internationalisation Sustainability Green transition Qualitative methods

Primary research areas

Over­view:
My re­search crit­ic­ally ex­am­ines the role of mul­tina­tion­al en­ter­prises (MNEs) in pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, with a fo­cus on the in­sti­tu­tion­al is­sues posed by tech­no­lo­gic­al changes. I use qual­it­at­ive meth­ods to ana­lyse how in­dustry-spe­cif­ic factors in­ter­act across coun­try con­texts.
Re­search top­ics:
・Glob­al value chains: up­grad­ing and gov­ernance
・In­sti­tu­tion­al ana­lys­is of tech­no­lo­gic­al change
・Sustain­ability and re­spons­ible busi­ness
・Busi­ness-gov­ern­ment re­la­tion­ships
・For­eign dir­ect in­vest­ment (FDI)
・Qual­it­at­ive re­search
Coun­try/in­dustry in­terests:
- Asia, Europe, and de­vel­op­ing coun­tries
- Man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor (e.g., auto­mot­ive, ro­bot­ics, and oth­er tra­di­tion­al in­dus­tries), in­clud­ing op­por­tun­it­ies and risks in di­git­al trans­formation.
- Lo­gist­ics in­dustry
- En­ergy sec­tor

Pro­file

Before joining CBS, I held the positions of Lecturer in International Business (Manchester Business School, University of Manchester), Lecturer in Strategy (University of Surrey), and the Advanced Institute of Management Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Cardiff University), which was sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK.

I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge with full financial support from the Joint Japan-World Bank Graduate Scholarship. I also hold an MSc in Development Studies (SOAS, University of London). Prior to beginning my academic career, I worked in the global shipping and logistics industry based in Japan and Singapore.

Teach­ing

Courses: 

  • Global Digital Transformation: Opportunities and Risks (MSc)
  • International Business and Sustainable Development (BSc)
  • Green Transition and Business Innovation (BSc)
  • Research Methods: Qualitative Methods (BSc)

Supervision: 

  • I supervise theses at all levels (BSc, MSc and PhD) in the areas of international business and international development.

Recent research projects

• Di­git­al Trans­formation in Europe and Asia: Op­por­tun­it­ies and Chal­lenges

Fun­ded by the Otto Mønsted Found­a­tion and the Carls­berg Found­a­tion.
EAMSA2025

Outside activities

Advisory Committee member, 2025–to date

Euro-Asia Man­age­ment Stud­ies As­so­ci­ation.