Research Projects

Youth and Employment: The role of Entrepreneurship in African economies

Søren Jeppesen and Thilde Langevang are the CBDS members of the research project which is lead by Department of Geography and Geology, Copenahgen University, and includes partners in the UK, Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. The project runs from 2009-2013, funded by the Danida Development Research Council (FFU) and aims at investigating the role of entrepreneurship in employment generation for young people in selected African countries. The project focuses on four key area (entrepreneurship, youth, enterprises and institutions) and their interaction.

See project website: http://geo.ku.dk/yemp/

Contact: Søren Jeppesen

Linkages and resource flows between MNCs and local firms

Empirical study of Danish affiliates and their local partners in Argentina

The project addresses the direct linkages between parent multinational companies, their affiliates and local host country firms and study the impact on competitive advantages. The analysis is based of a model of the relationships and resource flows between parent company, the affiliate and the local partner firms. Empirically it builds on information collected in spring 2009 from the population of Danish firms established in Argentina. Because the Danish firms are mainly locating in Argentina for market seeking reasons the project provides an insight to the linkages and resource flows related to downstream activities going to the distributors and customers that are of more significant importance than suppliers and subcontractors. The project is undertaken in Cooperation with Professor Hector Rocha, IAE Business School in Pilar, Argentina and the Danish-Argentinean Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Buenos Aires. Preliminary papers from the project have been presented at the EIBA conference in Valencia December 2009 and the Iberoamerican Academy of Management Conference at the IAE Business School in Argentina.

Contact: Henrik Schaumburg-Müller

Enhancement of Research Capacity in International Business and Internationalisation of Vietnamese Companies

The purpose of the project is, through research cooperation, to enhance the research capacity in international business within the Vietnamese partner universities. Partners in the project are, besides CBS, National Economics University (NEU) and Foreign Trade University (FTU) in Hanoi, Vietnam and Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark.

Contact: Henrik Schaumburg-Müller.

The International Sporting Goods Industry

"Global Value Chains, Industrial Clusters, and Corporate Responsibility in the International Sporting Goods Industry" is a project investigating whether joint corporate responsibility initiatives in Pakistan and India enhance or undermine the competitiveness of local producers and the conditions of workers vis-à-vis their Chinese counterparts that have not engaged in similar joint corporate responsibility initiatives.

Towards a critical framework on corporate social and environmental responsibility in the South

Elaboration of a critical research agenda on CSER in the South. Special interests include donor funding and the sustainability of CSER interventions in the South, public-private partnerships, and the role of community-based accountability strategies (Post-doc project).

Contact: Peter Lund-Thomsen

Outsourcing of knowledge intensive activities

Working title: Offshore outsourcing of knowledge intensive activities: the interaction between companies in Denmark and in developing countries and the dynamic effects in the companies.

The project investigates the interaction between the Danish companies and the recipient companies, including the dynamic effects at both ends, which are created as a result of these business linkages. (PhD project)

Contact: Peter Ørberg

Investigating Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility in the South

International Research Network on Business, Development and Society, investigating Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility in the South. With partners in UK, US, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Kenya and Argentina. Read more at: bdsnetwork.cbs.dk

Contact: Søren Jeppesen

Companies in Developing Countries

A theoretical look into the borderland of Business studies and Development studies.

Contact: Henrik Schaumburg-Müller & Michael W. Hansen

Global Companies, Global Unions

Research investigates the options of global unionisation within global value chains and transnational companies.

Contact: Peter Wad

Strategic Alliances and Organisational Change

The research project applies a culture perspective to investigating the relationship between partners in international strategic alliances in Vietnam. In an attempt to refute the prevalent notion that cultural difference is a barrier to cooperation, this research project presupposes that diversity is a strength and that there are synergies embedded in cultural diversity. (PhD project)

Contact: Linda Harrison

Performance of Strategic Alliances between Danish Firms and Firms in Developing Countries

PhD project: The project is on performance of Danida supported international strategic alliances between Danish firms and firms in various developing countries. From the point of view of Danida the alliances have the ultimate objective of contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction, while the immediate objective of the alliances is to contribute to improving performance of the participating firms in the developing countries. This project focuses on investigating the factors influencing the achievement of this immediate objective of improved firm performance and the approach of the project is built primarily on the literature on international strategic alliances

Contact: Jeppe Christoffersen

Outsourcing for development (OUD)

A two years project beginning early 2006, coordinated by Michael W. Hansen, and with the participation of Søren Jeppesen, Henrik Schaumburg-Müller, Peter Ørberg and Peter Wad from CBDS and John Kuada and Olav Jull Sørensen from Aalborg University.

See project website: Outsourcing for Development

Contact: Michael W. Hansen

Last updated by Bente Faurby 06/01/2010