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Duncan Wigan

Professor mso

Subjects
International economics Economic system Geopolitics International relations Green transition Multinational company Globalisation

Primary research areas

Glob­al Wealth Chains
Ex­plor­ing how mul­tina­tion­al en­ter­prises use cor­por­ate net­works to man­age as­sets and li­ab­il­it­ies in law
Transna­tion­al Act­iv­ism
Identi­fy­ing how so­cial move­ments or­gan­ise to ef­fect trans­formation in the name of eco­nom­ic justice
In­ter­na­tion­al Tax­a­tion
Ana­lys­ing the geo­pol­it­ic­al and geoe­co­nom­ic im­plic­a­tions of mul­tina­tion­al en­ter­prise tax plan­ning

I am in­ter­ested in how chan­ging forms of cap­it­al in the in­ter­na­tion­al polit­ic­al eco­nomy emerge, are ne­go­ti­ated and gov­erned in the con­texts of in­nov­a­tions in fin­ance and mul­tina­tion­al cor­por­ate or­gan­iz­a­tion.

Duncan Wigan is Professor MSO in International Political Economy and a member of the Organizations, Markets and Governance research group at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He currently leads the MSc in International Business and Politics at CBS. Until 2024 he led the Master of Social Sciences in Public Management and Social Development at the Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has contributed to three European research consortiums, co-authoring and leading at CBS the European Commission Horizon 2020 Framework Program project, ‘COFFERS - Combatting Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators’. Between 2024 and 2025 he led a Global innovation Network Programme grant, ‘Entanglements between value and wealth in the lithium-ion battery chain’ under the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Currently, he contributes to the Danmarks Frie Froskningsfond project, ‘Time Mirror: Accounting for the Green Transition’ and is drafting ‘Global Tax Battles. The Fight to Govern Corporate and Elite Wealth’ (forthcoming Oxford University Press).  His research seeks to unpack how macro level structures in the international political economy are created, governed and changed with the intent to respond to the question of, ‘who gets  what, where and how’ in the international political economy.  

Publications

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2025

The Many Meanings of Capital in IPE

Dick Bryan

Michael Rafferty

Dun­can Wi­gan, Professor mso

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November 2024

Global Value and Wealth Chains in Contemporary Capitalism

Editorial Introduction

Dun­can Wi­gan, Professor mso

Leo­nard Sea­broo­ke, Professor

Ste­fa­no Po­n­te, Professor

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Recent research projects

Time Mir­ror

TIME MIR­ROR’s re­search ob­ject­ive is to change how Dan­ish firms ac­count for time by em­power­ing ac­count­ing agents to de­vel­op new green re­port­ing stand­ards and tech­no­lo­gies that re­flect the longer-term ob­ject­ive of car­bon neut­ral­ity

Outside activities

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