Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032087757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 508 str.

Peter Lund-Thomsen; Michael Wendelboe Hansen; Adam Lindgreen

Opis

Business and Development Studies: Issues and Perspectives provides a comprehensive collection of cutting edge theoretical and empirical contributions to the emerging field of business and development studies.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction  1.1 Business and development studies—issues and perspectives  Part 2 Business, Governance, and Development  2.1 Governance, business, and development  2.2 State–business relations and development: toward a more complete research agenda  2.3 International business and economic development2.4 The financialization and responsibilization of development aid  Part 3 Global Value Chains, Business, and Development  3.1 Global value chains, development, and emerging economies  3.2 Corporate social responsibility in global value chains: Where are we now? Where are we going?  3.3 Critical reflections on the effectiveness of responsible business initiatives and systemic constraints for achieving a safe and just operating space for humanity  3.4 Multi-stakeholder initiatives in global value chains: Opportunities and challenges for women workers  Part 4 International Business, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Development  4.1 CSR in developing countries: Competing perspectives on businesses, their roles, and responsibilities  4.2 The state of international business, corporate social responsibility, and development: Key insights and an application to practice  4.3 Corporate social responsibility and development: The case of international business firms in emerging economies  4.4 Analysis of the MNEs’ social practices in Latin America: Implications for development studies research  4.5 Business, development, and human rights  4.6 Impacts of neoliberal wind energy investments on environmental justice and human rights in Mexico  Part 5 Local Firms, Organizations, and Development  5.1 When do businesses innovate in a developing country? An empirical investigation of determinants of innovative performance of Ugandan micro and small businesses  5.2 Microfinance programs and women’s empowerment: New evidence from rural middle hills of Nepal  5.3 Social entrepreneurship as vehicle for inclusive development: The case of Siya Sebenza in South Africa  5.4. Micro and small business clusters and local development policies: Insights from India–Italy cooperation project

O autorze

Peter Lund-Thomsen is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in the Global South at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is Associate Editor of Competition and Change and has been Associate Editor of Business Ethics: A European Review.

Michael Wendelboe Hansen is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He has done extensive empirical research on Danish multinational companies and emerging markets, on outward foreign direct investment from developing countries (in particular from India), and on private-sector development.

Adam Lindgreen is Professor of Marketing at Copenhagen Business School where he heads the Department of Marketing. He also is Extraordinary Professor with the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.