Lotte Thomsen | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

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Presentation

I am an economic geographer primarily interested in interlinkages between global value chains and local development. I often explore issues of value creation and value capture in the Global South, and have mainly been working in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam. I currently examine relations between ‘sustainable and responsible consumption’ and geographies of dissociation in the gems and jewellery sector.

Primary research areas

My research interests are mainly in the following areas:

Economic geography
Global value chains and local development
Value creation and value capture in the global economy
Retail and consumption geographies
Sustainability and geographies of dissociation
Southeast Asia
Clothing, food, gems & jewellery

Social media

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Centre for Business and Development Studies

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www.cbs.dk/en/staff/ltmsc

Courses

BSc BLC Globalisation and Sustainability
MSc BLC Global Value Chains in Africa
BSc IBA Asian Business Systems: State, Institutions and the Global Economy

Supervision

Mainly interested in supervising in the following broad topics:

Global value chains and global production networks
Global value chains and local development
Sustainability
Consumption and geographies of dissociation
Global retail
Heritage tourism
Clothing, food and gems & jewellery sectors

Selected publications

Lotte Thomsen; Karen P.Y. Lai; Stefano Ponte / State Action and Inaction in the Shaping of Value and Wealth Entanglements : The Role of Singapore in the Global ‘Gold Chain’. In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 21.8.2023

Lotte Thomsen & Martin Hess (2022) Dialectics of Association and Dissociation: Spaces of Valuation, Trade, and Retail in the Gemstone and Jewelry Sector, Economic Geography, 98:1, 49-67, DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2021.1989302

Paul Kamau; Lotte Thomsen; Dorothy McCormick / Identifying Entry Barriers for Food Processors to Supermarkets in Kenya. In: Scientific African, Vol. 6, 11.2019

Thomsen, L. (2018) Retailing in Places of World Heritage, Transition and 'Planned Authenticity'. Geoforum, Volume 91, May 2018, pp 245–252.

Thomsen, L. (2016) Exporting to Russia? Entry barriers for Food Suppliers in a Territory in Transition. Journal of Economic Geography, Vol 16, No. 4, p. 831-847.

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2023

Dorothee Nussbruch; Lotte Thomsen / Disasters, ‘Localisation’ and Humanitarian Spaces : What Role for Local Private Sectors?.
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023, 2023

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

Lotte Thomsen; Karen P.Y. Lai; Stefano Ponte / State Action and Inaction in the Shaping of Value and Wealth Entanglements : The Role of Singapore in the Global ‘Gold Chain’.
In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023

Journal article > peer review

2022

Lotte Thomsen; Martin Hess / Dialectics of Association and Dissociation : Spaces of Valuation, Trade, and Retail in the Gemstone and Jewelry Sector.
In: Economic Geography, Vol. 98, No. 1, 1.2022, p. 49-67

Journal article > peer review

Lotte Thomsen / Exploring Ecologies and Labour in Unregulated Global Value Chains
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2022, 2022

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

Lotte Thomsen / Industrial Upgrading, Strategic (de-/re-) Coupling and Global Change
Abstract from SASE 34th Annual Conference 2022, 2022

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

2021

Lotte Thomsen; Martin Hess / Escaping Known Sustainability Problems : From Diamonds to Coloured Gemstones.
Frederiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 30.11.2021

Net publication - Internet publication > peer review

2020

Lotte Thomsen; Karen Lai; Stefano Ponte / Value and Wealth in Chains for Gold Jewellery : Some Perspectives on Governance.
Abstract from SASE 32nd Annual Conference 2020 - Virtual, 2020

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

2019

Lotte Thomsen; Martin Hess / Exploring Value Creation in the Gems and Jewellery Sector in Singapore
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019, 2019

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

Paul Kamau; Lotte Thomsen; Dorothy McCormick / Identifying Entry Barriers for Food Processors to Supermarkets in Kenya
In: Scientific African, Vol. 6, 11.2019

Journal article > peer review

2018

Lotte Thomsen / Making it to the World Heritage List : Envisioned and Hidden Effects.
: The Business of Society 23.4.2018

Net publication - Internet publication

2018

Lotte Thomsen / Retailing in Places of World Heritage, Transition and ‘Planned Authenticity’
In: Geoforum, Vol. 91, 5.2018, p. 245–252

Journal article > peer review

2017

Lotte Thomsen; Dorothy McCormick; Paul Kamau / Processing Food for the Domestic Market : Entry Barriers for Food Processors to Supermarkets in Kenya.
Copenhagen : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2017, 20 p. (CBDS Working Paper, No. 1, 2017)

Working paper > peer review

Lotte Thomsen; Paul Kamau; Dorothy McCormick / Reflections on Supplier Entry Barriers to Domestic Retail Markets : The Case of Food Processing Firms in Kenya.
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017, 2017

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

2016

Souleymane Coulibaly; Lotte Thomsen / Connecting to Regional Markets? : Transport, Logistics Services and International Transit Challenges for Central Asian Food-processing Firms.
In: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2016, p. 16-25

Journal article > peer review

Lotte Thomsen; Paul Kamau; Dorothy McCormick / Contextualizing Territories in Gvc Supplier Nodes to Understand Chain Entry Barriers : The Case of the Food Processing Industry in Kenya.
Abstract from The Private Sector in Development, 2016

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

Lotte Thomsen / Exporting to Russia? : Entry Barriers for Food Suppliers in a Territory in Transition.
In: Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 16, No. 4, 7.2016, p. 831-847

Journal article > peer review

2015

Lotte Thomsen / Making Clothing Retail Place-Specific, While Changing The Spatialities Of Production : The Role Of ‘Planned Authenticity’ And Globalization In Hoi An, Vietnam.
Abstract from Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015, 2015

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

Lotte Thomsen / Synergies Between Danish Development Cooperation and Commercial Activities in Vietnam : Experience from Green Growth and Fisheries .
København : Danida 2015, 26 p.

Report > peer review

2013

Dorothy McCormick; Paul Kamau; Lotte Thomsen; Jackson Maalu; Radha Upadhyaya; Wamalwa Nyukuri / Kenya Country Background Report : Successful African Firms and Institutional Change (SAFIC) Project.
København : Copenhagen Business School, CBS 2013, 23 p.

Report

Lotte Thomsen / Learning Globally to Go Local? : Brand and Retail Strategies of Local Clothing Businesses in Vietnam.
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2013, 2013

Conference abstract for conference > peer review

2011

Lotte Thomsen / Business-State Relations in the Differentiated Private Sector in Vietnam : Access to Capital and Land.
In: Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 39, No. 5, 2011, p. 627-651

Journal article > peer review

Lotte Thomsen / Russian Retailers as Drivers of Global Value Chains : Examining the Conventions of Russian Retailers from a Central Asian Perspective.
Manchester : School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester 2011, 24 p.

Working paper

Lotte Thomsen / Using Relational Approaches to understand the Market Oppertunities of Developing Country Suppliers : The Case of Central Asia.
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2011. The Geographical Imagination, 2011

Conference abstract for conference

2010

Lotte Thomsen / European Retailers and Global Sourcing Networks
In: Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: West Europe. . ed. /Lise Skov. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2010, p. 118-120

Encyclopedia chapter > peer review

2009

Lotte Thomsen / Internal Business Organisation in the Private Garment Industry in Vietnam : The Roles of Ethnicity, Origin and Location.
In: Competition & Change, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2009, p. 29-50

Journal article > peer review

2008

Peter Gibbon; Sam Jones; Lotte Thomsen / An Assessment of the Impact of Export Processing Zones and an Identification of Appropriate Measures to Support their Development : For Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2008.
København : Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, DIIS 2008, 66 p.

Working paper

Lotte Thomsen / Shifting Financial Flows to Low-Income Countries : From Official Aid to Private Finance?.
København : Dansk Institut for Internationale Studier, DIIS 2008, 19 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 2008/22)

Working paper

2007

Lotte Thomsen / Accessing Global Value Chains? : The Role of Business–state Relations in the Private Clothing Industry in Vietnam.
In: Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 7, No. 6, 2007, p. 753–776

Journal article > peer review

2006

Lotte Thomsen / Supplier Entry Barriers to Global Value Chains for Clothing : The Roles of Business-state Relations in Vietnam and of Lead Firm Strategies in Europe.
København : Københavns Universitet 2006, 219 p. (Ph.d.-serien)

PhD thesis

2005

Florence Palpacuer; Peter Gibbon; Lotte Thomsen / New Challenges for Developing Country Suppliers in Global Clothing Chains : A Comparative European Perspective.
In: World Development, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2005, p. 409-430

Journal article > peer review

2002

Jakob Lindahl; Lotte Thomsen / Private Business and Socio-economic Network Relations in the Chinese Community in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
In: Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks. ed. /Thomas Menkhoff; Gerke Solvay. Abingdon : Routledge 2002, p. 129-156

Book chapter > peer review

Peter Gibbon; Lotte Thomsen / Scandinavian Clothing Retailers' Global Sourcing Patterns and Practices
København : Center for Udviklingsforskning 2002, 25 p. (DIIS Working Paper, No. 02.14)

Working paper

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2023

Lotte Thomsen; Karen P. Y. Lai; Stefano Ponte / Value and Wealth Entanglements in the Gold Industry
Frderiksberg : Centre for Business and Development Studies 18.9.2023

Net publication - Internet publication

2019

558 forskere og undervisere: Universitetets formålsparagraffer skal skrives med grønt

22/09/2019 // Politiken, Politiken.dk // 558 forskere og undervisere

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