PhD defence: Rasmus Corlin Christensen

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Rasmus Corlin Christensen has submitted his thesis entitled:
Politics and Professionals: Transnational Struggles to Change International Taxation

In recent years, international taxation has become a high-stakes issue, operating as a key arena for struggles over government revenues, markets, political ideas, and – above all – social change. This dissertation develops a change-oriented approach to studying such international contexts, uniting insights from International Political Economy on global political-economic orders and from Sociology on micro-social struggles over power and authority. To do so, the dissertation offers a qualitative study of developments in international taxation across four levels: Global tax governance, the transnational field of corporate taxation, expert policymaking, and professional practice.

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Leonard Seabrooke
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Duncan Wigan 
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Stine Haakonsson (Chair)
Department of Organization
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Valérie Boussard
Department of Sociology
University of Nanterre Paris

Professor Daniel Muzio
The York Management School
University of York

Thesis:
The thesis is available here

Reception:
CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in Kilen 4th floor.