
I am primarily interested in transnational economic and environmental governance, with focus on overlaps and tensions between private authority and public regulation. My research, fieldwork, teaching and policy work is informed by international political economy approaches, global value chain analysis and convention theory.
I also analyze business-government-civil society interactions, economic development and environmental upgrading trajectories in global value chains - especially in Africa and in the global South. I am particularly interested in how sustainability labels, certifications and codes of conduct shape power relations in global value chains, and in how different forms of partnerships affect sustainability outcomes.
Finally, I am involved in projects critically examining the role of celebrities and branding in these processes, new forms of development aid, changing corporate social and environmental responsibility practices, and cause-related marketing.
Stefano Ponte
Director of CBDS
Professor
Room: DH.Ø.2.23
Tel:+4538154265
E-mail:
P R I M A R Y R E S E A R C H A R E A S
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International Political Economy -
Global Value Chains and Production Networks -
Business and Development -
Sustainability -
Cause-related marketing, Brand Aid, role of celebrity mediation -
Political economy of development and of Africa -
Partnerships for sustainability
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
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The Evolution of Power in the Global Coffee Value Chain,” Journal of Economic Geography, – with Janina Grabs (2nd author)
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Green Capital Accumulation: Business and Sustainability Management in a World of Global Value Chains,” New Political Economy.
C O M M U N I C A T I O N
In: Søfart, No. 15, 2018, p. 16
In: Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance. . ed. /Andreas Rasche; Mette Morsing; Jeremy Moon. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2017, p. 427-450
London : The London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE 30.11.2015
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 5, 11.2013, p. 4
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 5, 11.2013, p. 12
In: CBS Sustainability Quarterly , Vol. 3, 10.2012, p. 22-25
S U P E R V I S I O N
Interested in supervising in the areas of:
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Transnational Environmental Governance
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Business and sustainability
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Social and environmental labels and certification
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Ethical and sustainable consumption
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Global value chains and production networks (especially in the agro-food sector)
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Cause-related marketing and brand aid
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New forms of CSR and corporate philanthropy
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Governance in North-South economic relations
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Business, trade and development (especially in Africa)
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Convention theory and management of quality/symbolic value
C O U R S E S
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International Political Economy
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Sustainability Challenges
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Political Economy of Markets
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CSR: A Path to Sustainable Development?
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Brand Aid: Cause-related Marketing, Celebrity Humanitarianism and Ethical Consumption
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Africa, Global Value Chains and Development
Office hours:
Fridays 13.00 - 15.00
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