Invitation for PhD Defence - Ahaana Mahanti
PhD invitation
PhD Defence
Room: DH.Ø.0.89 (ground floor)
Reception: Faculty Club (ground floor next to canteen)
*The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence.
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Making Cross-Sector Partnerships Work:How Local NGOs Navigate Place, Governance, and Social Dynamics in Rural Water Access Projects in Stratified Contexts
Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to water access increasingly rely on cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) for their implementation, yet how these partnerships unfold in practice varies substantially across places. This dissertation examines how civil society actors, particularly local NGOs mediate the translation of global SDG agendas into local governance practices in marginalized rural contexts. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative case study of the India Water Project, a decade-long CSP delivering solar-powered drinking water systems across remote rural India, the dissertation develops a relational and place-based perspective on SDG implementation. Through three interlinked articles, it shows how NGOs engage in multilevel brokering work to align global agendas, partnership arrangements, state missions, and community institutions, and how differences in this brokering help explain divergent trajectories across sites.
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk |
Primary Supervisor:
Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Secondary Supervisor(s):
Professor Tanusree Jain
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Assessment Committee:
Professor Jeremy Moon (Chair)
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Associate Professor Lea Stadtler
Management & Technology
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Professor Ralph Hamann
Graduate School of Business (GSB)
University of Cape Town (UCT)
