Department of Management, Society and Communication

ltmsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

  • Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS)
Lotte
Thomsen
Associate professor
,
PhD


Room: DH.Ø.2.42
Tel:
+4538153117
E-mail: lt.msc@cbs.dk
Presentation

Lotte Thomsen is an economic geographer primarily interested in the dynamics and effects of global value chains, focusing on the clothing, jewellery, gemstone, gold and electric vehicle industries. Lotte often explores issues of value creation and value capture, as well as the economic, social and environmental sustainability impacts of global production, in the Global South. Empirically, her work mainly revolves around the strategies and practices of lead firms in Europe and suppliers in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. Current projects are concerned with geographies of dis/association, value and wealth chains, and the changing dynamics of global production in the age of polycrisis.  

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
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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.

Publications sorted by:
2024
Lotte Thomsen; Shyamain Wickramasingha; Adrian Smith / Poly-crisis and the Restructuring of Global Production Networks : The Changing Position of Bangladesh Apparel Suppliers in Times of Geo-Political and Geo-Economic Change.
Abstract from RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024, 2024
Conference abstract for conference > peer review
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
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Outside activities

Currently no outside activities.