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A Changing Global Development Agenda?

Explore the impact of African firms in changing business environments, capacity building in African universities, research project details. Panel discussions on corporate social responsibility, employment practices, market diversification strategies, and public-private collaboration in Africa.

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A Changing Global Development Agenda?

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  1. A Changing Global Development Agenda? WG3: The Role the Private Sector in Changing Development Paths. New perspectives on strategies and contributions from developing country firms Gothenburg University, 6th November 2015 Working Group Leaders: Assoc. Prof. Soeren Jeppesen, CBS (sj.ikl@cbs.dk) and Prof. Dorothy McCormick, UoN (dmccormick@unobi.ac.ke)

  2. WG3: The Role of the Private Sector in …. Successful African Firms and Institutional Change (SAFIC) project: Participants: CBS, Roskilde University, University of Nairobi, University of Dar es Salaam and University of Zambia Period: 2012-2017 Overall objectives: * To investigate how and why African (Kenyan, Tanzanian and Zambian owned) firms are more or less successful in changing business and institutional environments. * To contribute to the capacity building of the involved African universities among senior researchers and graduating 5 PhD scholars and 21 Master students in the field.Web:http://www.cbs.dk/en/research/cbs-research-projects/major-research-projects/successful-african-firms-and-institutional-change-safic

  3. WG3: The Role of the Private Sector in …. SAFIC conference: The Private Sector in Development Date: 6-7 April 2016 Place: CBS, Copenhagen Conference web page: http://tilmeld.events/safic2016 Abstracts: 1 December 2015 Paper: 1 March 2016

  4. WG3: The Role of the Private Sector … Panel 1. FRIDAY 6th 09.00-10.30 – Chair Dorothy McCormick, UoN * Welcome and presentation of program, by working group leaders * Round of presentation of participants * Paper 1: THE MEDIATION OF POWER ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR), RagnhildMadland, Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway. Discussant: Dorothy McCormick, UoN. * Paper 2: Employment of relatives – strategies for socially responsible business practice in Uganda, Malin J. Nystrand, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Discussant: Søren Jeppesen, CBS. * Paper 3: Upgrading in a reconfiguring world: A GVC analysis of African exporting firms, by Arielle N’Diaye, Universited’Auvergne, France. Discussant: Lotte Thomsen, CBS. * End of session one.

  5. WG3: The Role of the Private Sector … Panel 2. FRIDAY 6th 11.00-12.30 – Chair Soeren Jeppesen, CBS Welcome & Program for the panel session Paper 4. Contextualizing territories in GVC supplier nodes to understand businesses’ access to chains and markets: the case of food processors in Kenya, Lotte Thomsen, Department of Intercultural Management, Copenhagen Business School. Discussant: Arielle N’Diaye, University of D’Auvergne. Paper 5. MARKET DIVERSIFICATION STRATEGY AND SUCCESS OF FOOD PROCESSING FIRMS IN KENYA, Paul Kamau & Dorothy McCormick, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. Discussant: MalinNystrand, SGS. Paper 6. STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION IN AFRICA: BUILDING STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS IN THE FOOD-PROCESSING SECTOR IN KENYA, TANZANIA AND ZAMBIA, Goodluck Charles, Peter Kragelund, Paul Kamau, Søren Jeppesen, University of Dar Es Salaam Business School; Roskilde University; University of Nairobi & Copenhagen Business School. Discussant: RagnhildMadland, AU. Wrap up of working group & End of session two

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