Publishing Institution:
Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS), Copenhagen Business School
We are an interdisciplinary research centre on business and development studies based at Copenhagen Business School. We carry out critical, engaged and theoretically-driven research on the roles of business, government and civil society in promoting inclusive, just and sustainable development – with a focus on power dynamics, inequalities and marginalized actors in the global South.
Our main research efforts are around a number of collaborative projects with institutions based in the global South, and include substantial components of research capacity building. CBDS researchers and their partners blend passion and pragmatism, and seek to examine the roots of economic, social and environmental problems in the global South – rather than only addressing their manifestations.
CBDS also feeds research-based teaching into the MSc programme on Business and Development Studies (BaDS) at CBS, which trains students to think critically and operate ethically in business and other professional realms. Finally, CBDS provides expertise to policy makers, business, industry associations and civil society groups.
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Resources:
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February 01, 2024
Strategies for Assessing Triple Nexus Initiatives and Integrating Peace Aspects – Insights from Niger
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Christina Plesner Volkdal
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September 01, 2023
Sustainability in the South African Wine Industry: Status, Opportunities and Challenges
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Reena das Nair, Shingie Chisoro, Stefano Ponte
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July 01, 2023
Climate Change and Trade to the EU Priority Sectors for Policy Intervention in South Africa
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Jason F. Bell, Sumayya Goga, Nishal Robb
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June 01, 2023
Supporting E-mobility Start-ups in Africa
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Charles Odoom, George Baffour Awuah
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June 01, 2023
Working Conditions in Madagascar’s Apparel Industry: Comparing Export and Domestic Market Firms
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Kristoffer Marslev, Lindsay Whitfield
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April 01, 2023
Potential and Pitfalls for African Industrialization in Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railways
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Yunnan Chen
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March 01, 2023
Electric Vehicles and the Changing Automotive GVC: A Window of Opportunity for African Countries?
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Tobias Wuttke
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February 01, 2023
State Upgrading in Global Value Chains and Production Networks: A Conceptual Note
By:
Andries Bezuidenhout, Søren Jeppesen
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February 01, 2023
Climate Change Mitigation for Late Industrialisers: The Role of Technology Intensity in Manufacturing
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Elvis Korku Avenyo, Fiona Tregenna
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January 01, 2023
Current Capabilities and Future Potential of African Textile and Apparel Industries
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Lindsay Whitfield, Chema Triki
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December 01, 2022
Current Capabilities and Future Potential of African Textile & Apparel Value Chains: Focus on West Africa
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Lindsay Whitfield
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December 01, 2022
How China Came to Dominate the Global EV Lithium-ion Battery Value Chain: Lessons and Opportunities for Africa
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Xieshu Wang
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September 30, 2022
The Business Case for the Sustainable Development Goals: An Empirical Analysis of 21 Danish Companies' Engagement with the SDGs
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Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach, Erik Johnson
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April 21, 2022
Going Against the Tide: Towards Binding Environmental Regulation of Mining in Chile
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Johanna Jarvela, Lotta Aho
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May 03, 2021
The Institutional Context of Humanitarian Helping in Contemporary Italy
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Adriano Profeta, Lisa Ann Richey, Maha Rafi Atal
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December 11, 2020
Beyond Compliance and Cooperation? Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains in the Age of COVID-19
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Peter Lund-Thomsen, Jacob Ramirez
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September 01, 2020
The political economy of competition, regulation and transformation: Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and quota allocations in South African industrial fisheries
By:
Thando Vilakazi, Stefano Ponte
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August 07, 2020
Not every time is the right time for real-time marketing: branding in the COVID-19 pandemic
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Lisa Ann Richey, Maha Rafi Atal
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June 26, 2020
The FDI-led Growth Regimes of the East-Central and South-Eastern European Periphery
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Dragos Adascalitei, Cornel Ban
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March 31, 2020
Saving the world by doing business? A background paper on the role of the private sector in Danish aid
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Julie Andersen Schou, Mette Fog Olwig
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January 15, 2020
La transición hacia energía renovables en México: Oportunidades y desafíos respecto a las empresas y derechos humanos
By:
Jacob Ramirez