CBDS director Stefano Ponte will launch his latest book on Sustainability Governance and green capital accumulation at CBS, Dalgas Have 15. 

About the book: 

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainability the last decade has witnessed the birth of hybrid forms of governance where business, civil society and public actors interact at different levels, leading to a focus on concepts of legitimacy within multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs).

Based in over 15 years of theoretical engagement and field research, Business, Power and Sustainability draws from both labour-intensive value chains, such as in the agro-food sector (coffee, wine, fish, biofuels, palm oil), and from capital-intensive value chains such as in shipping and aviation, to discuss how sustainability governance can be best designed, managed and institutionalized in today’s world of global value chains (GVCs). Examining current theoretical and analytical efforts aimed at including sustainability issues in GVC governance theory, it expands on recent work examining GVC upgrading by introducing the concept of environmental upgrading; and through new conceptions of orchestration, it provides suggestions for how governments and international organizations can best facilitate the achievement of sustainability goals.

About the author:



Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Centre for Business and Development Studies at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is interested in transnational economic and environmental governance, and in overlaps and tensions between private authority and public regulation. Stefano analyses business–government–civil society interactions, and governance and upgrading trajectories in global value chains. He is currently working on sustainability issues and how they shape power relations in global value chains, and on how different forms of partnerships affect sustainability outcomes.

Discussants:

Jeremy Moon, Professor, Chair of Sustainability Governance, MSC, CBS

Caroline Aggestam Pontoppidam, Academic Director, CBS PRME and Associate Professor, Dept. of Accounting, CBS

Maha Rafi Atal, Post-Doc, MSC, CBS

Hans Krause Hansen, Professor, MSC, CBS

Preliminary programme:

16:00-16:10 Introductory remarks (Lisa Ann Richey, Professor of Globalization)

16:10-16:40 Presentation: Business Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains (Stefano Ponte, author)

16:40-17:00 Roundtable discussion 

17:00-17:30 Q&A and open discussion

17:30-18:00 Reception with light refreshments